At the point of protocol-defined study completion (85% mortality in the placebo arm) there was a modest difference in survival in the intention-to-treat population in favour of marimastat (P=0.07 log-rank test, hazard ratio=1.23 (95% confidence interval 0.98 1.55)).
gambiae larvae are morphologically undistinguishable; so at this point of the experimental protocol, it was not feasible to distinguish which of the larvae were An.
Captain Younes, without his captors' realizing what he was saying, asked for help and gave permission for the Americans to board — a critical point of protocol given the tensions between the United States' and the Iranian governments.
On such occasions, tradition dictates that the travelling British press is on permanent snub alert, parsing each point of protocol for hints that the Special Relationship is turning quotidian.So far, we are snub-free.
From this point of view, LEACH is a quite elegant protocol especially in terms of self-adaptive ability.
The Russians are a very formal people and great sticklers on points of protocol and decorum.
Mr. Cool's testimony offered a rare look at what happens in a burning building when everything goes wrong, when firefighters begin to panic, to the point of breaking protocol and interrupting efforts to communicate over their hand-held radios.
Skinfold thickness, body circumferences, biochemical measurements, CPX isokinetic strength test, and the 1-RM test were assessed at the midway point of the protocol (i.e., sixth week).
The reviewer might have missed the key point of our protocol.
The key point of our protocol was to remove the exoskeletal cuticle from nematode bodies, aiming to efficiently generate co-crystals of biomolecules and matrices.
