Whereas earlier naturalists may have been able to enjoy an evening in the study contemplating a butterfly collection, their modern descendants are more likely to be out, certificates in hand, making sure that there is enough milkweed for the monarch migration.
Finally, the performance study contemplates that the overheads incurred in the protocol is reasonable and comparable to that of other existing state-of-art authentication protocols.
Regarding costs of blood tests, both direct costs (unitary price of a standard blood analysis, a CD4 test and an HIV-1 RNA test) and indirect costs (transport costs and time invested to reach the laboratory, productivity cost, absenteeism, quality of life and psychosocial status) should be the same for both study arms, because this study contemplated to perform the blood tests on the same site.
The study also contemplates two secondary endpoints: osteoporotic fracture of the hip and mortality due to any cause.
In the study, students who contemplated a rich, calorie-laden food (a "decadent" cheesecake) followed by another caloric food (a cheeseburger) saw the cheeseburger as relatively low in calories.
The study, where he contemplated a whale's vertebra and worked, is still here, as is the ink stain on the wall where one afternoon he saw the devil and threw an ink pot at him.
But the study shows that people contemplating eye surgery should talk to their doctor about how a procedure might affect their facial expressions.
After well over half a lifetime studying, contemplating and documenting the vagaries of human behaviour and psychology, I must issue a confession.
The study provides guidance for policy-makers contemplating increases in excise/customs duty on tobacco products, showing both the limits and the potential value of price as a strategy to increase quit rates.
However, because we were also interested in subsequent breast cancer risk, FCR participants who had undergone prophylactic mastectomy and oophorectomy were excluded from the study, although many subjects were still contemplating these procedures.
