Dr. Jiang, who is not related to Jiang Zemin, has spent nearly 45 days in military custody, where he has been subjected to extended "study sessions" to change his political thinking, these people said.
She writes of her preference for dealing with the backroom wheeler-dealers of the Tammany Hall machine rather than with "reformers": good-government advocates subjected her projects to extended study and careful cost accounting, whereas party hacks cut through red tape and got things done.
Poor recruitment can lead to extended study duration, greater resource usage and findings that are not as statistically precise as intended; in the worst case, a trial may be stopped.
While these factors were not directly evaluated in this study, it is probable that our sample may have been biased towards volunteers with a heightened interest in and commitment to the intervention, as another 195 people who initially expressed interest in the study declined participation at study entry, primarily due to a reluctance to commit to the extended study period [ 15].
Patients from the ENVISION and STRIVE studies were rolled over to an extended study to investigate the benefits of ivacaftor over a total period of 144 weeks, called PERSIST (Table 2) [ 56].
Ballasted flocculation is applied successfully in the water treatment industry, but the concept has not yet been subject to extended experimental studies.
Although it is not possible to plan for all contingencies, awareness of potential pitfalls may help to avoid some of the factors that contributed to the extended study duration in these programmes.
Ms. Morell suggested that fundamental economic incentives were motivating American applicants to explore extended study abroad.
It has led to an extended study that is specifically focused on health policy reforms and chronic disease management in India and China (funded by the Stanford Center at Peking University).
In a subset of participants (10 controls and 9 patients with DLB) in whom phosphenes could be reliably reproduced and who were willing to tolerate extended study, a stimulation response protocol at the map site with the lowest phosphene threshold (see point (a) below) was applied.
