Thus, allocation of new experimental animals into the study continued until the predefined group size of four animals per group was reached.
The distribution of publications between countries has been skewed, with the USA and the EU conducting 66% of the research, and thus allocation of research effort is focused in those continents and predominantly in temperate ecosystems.
Thus, allocation theory suggests that long-term changes in metabolism and food consumption cannot explain the growth costs of responding to predators found in this study.
Thus, allocation to effective warning signal, i.e. more effective anti-predatory defence against visual predators, might be less constrained when the invading pathogen is rather low in virulence (Fig. 2c).
Thus, allocation concealment was not possible.
After obtaining informed consent from the patient, the allocation was obtained by telephone from the central office, thus allocation was concealed.
One modification that does appear to be utilised regularly is to add in a random component; thus, allocation is no longer completely deterministic.
Randomization, and thus allocation to study treatment, will be done once the results of the urine culture become available at the 3rd or 4th day after inclusion.
Thus, allocation of the fixed health budget to C is proportional to C/(C + P) and allocation to P follows P/(C + P) where C is lobbying dollars spent by curative care interests and P is lobbying dollars spent by preventive care interests.
Thus, the allocation sequence was adequately concealed.
