The third difference between share holding and partnerships is that a partner is automatically entitled to a share of the profits of the firm as soon as they are ascertained, but a shareholder is entitled to a dividend out of the company's profits only when it has been declared.
However, this is not valid since they are ascertained differently, the controls being a sample from the whole population and the cases from the diseased subset.
The latter were classified as "long-term" if they were ascertained at least 6 months after birth.
The SNPs that we genotyped across 126 populations reveal considerable information about the topology of the haplogroup tree, but they were ascertained in a biased manner, and they are too few in number to convey any meaningful branch-length information.
They were ascertained from 18 different hospitals between 1996 and 2003.
They were ascertained in nine dogs from small and large breeds that were chosen to cover all major IGF1 haplotypes identified to that point.
Finally we acknowledge that while our clinically ascertained subjects were not drawn from a cohort with a single diagnosis such as autism or schizophrenia, they were ascertained from a heterogeneously affected group in whom genetic testing was considered clinically relevant.
The authors of the meta-analysis are restricted to combining the fully adjusted hazard ratios or odds ratios presented in each included study without any control over what characteristics were adjusted for or how they were ascertained in each study.
Events were defined as diagnoses of CRC and deaths from CRC, and they were ascertained from the screening database (screen-detected cases) through linkage with the National Cancer Registry (interval cancers) and the National Death Registry, respectively.
Our cases differ from those used in other studies of melancholia in a number of ways: they were ascertained through hospital in- and outpatient services, required to be aged between 30 and 60 years, with two or more episodes of MD, the first of which had to occur when the patient was older than 14 and younger than 50.
