Enrolment criteria for the proposed trial were constructed to ensure that only women who were addicted to nicotine were likely to be enrolled in the study.
Stopping rules for a single-arm, two-stage trial were constructed using simulations performed in TreeAge Pro Healthcare software (Version 1.0.2, 2009, Williamstown, Massachusetts) (program available on request).
To examine the relationship between expression of FGF biomarkers and PFS, a tissue microarray representing clear cell RCC specimens from patients with available tumor and enrolled on the trial was constructed.
For clarity and according to the CONSORT statement [ 10], a flow chart of the progress throughout the phases of the current randomized trial was constructed Procedures, previously used for other study [ 6], were as the following: on arrival at the operating room, children were cardiovascular monitored, i.e. ECG, pulse oxymetry and non-invasive blood pressure by means of an automatic device.
Subsequent trials were constructed using the same process with the remaining 20 sounds, until the set was empty.
All the trials were constructed by associating an original (first face) and a composite (second face) stimulus, the latter being extracted from the AS, MS, AD or MD condition.
The acoustic baseline trials were constructed to share complex auditory properties of speech without triggering phonetic interpretation.
Nonsemantic control tasks with the same decision/response demands as the semantic trials were constructed from the Navon letter-matching task (Navon 1977).
After averaging, the power was determined in two frequency bands, alpha (8 13 Hz) and beta (13 25 Hz) by a fast Fourier transformation using Frequency Trend (Yokogawa Electric Corporation) for each participant and the contrast images of (after the n-back test trials)/(before the n-back test trials) was constructed for each frequency band.
As its name suggests, it is a database of controlled trials, including randomized controlled trials, and is constructed from trials found in other databases and identified through hand searching of journals [ 19, 20].
