If it is assumed that the countries producing the bulk of published research also generate the bulk of prioritisation processes, the study appears to have identified prioritisation reports from the countries in which they might be expected to exist.
Although meta-analysis is applied in many types of research, the bulk of published meta-analyses are in the domain of therapeutic and – albeit to a lesser extent – observational etiologic studies.
To date, investigations relating to early onset cardiotoxicity and cardiac troponins represent the bulk of published reports.
Whereas older studies were mainly undertaken in the United States and Western Europe, studies targeting populations in India, China, Eastern Europe, and South America began to be published in the 1990s, and accounted for the bulk of published works from 2000 and later.
The O3 ISA builds on the conclusions of previous O3 assessments (e.g., U.S. EPA 1996, 2006b) and consists of a comprehensive review of papers published in the peer-reviewed literature through July 2012 (with the bulk of the studies published from June 2009 through July 2012) that focused on health effects of short-term (i.e., < 1 month) and long-term (i.e., months to years) O3 exposure.
In addition, the bulk of studies were published within the last ten years (77%) and focused on the US (52%).
Due to their logistical complexity, however, few intensive pharmacokinetic (PK) studies of HIV-infected tuberculosis patients have been performed in the sub-Saharan region, with the bulk of the published data originating from South Africa (7, 9, 10, 13).
The bulk of the published edition is divided into 36 sections, labeled A-r.
The bulk of the published research has focused on theoretical analysis and empirical evidence based on fishers' perception and experience.
At least one study has found that the total dense area is a better predictor of risk [ 14], although the bulk of the published evidence favours percent density [ 15- 19].
