Therefore, cross-sectional studies assigned 5, 4, 3 or 0-2 points were evaluated as very good, good, satisfactory or unsatisfactory studies, respectively.
29 In addition, in the unsatisfactory studies, how the outcome was assessed was not described, and methods needed to avoid confounders such as stratification and regression were not used.
Considering this high variability for 18F-FDG organ uptake, it is advisable to perform sample size calculations prior to experiments to avoid exclusion of effects due to unsatisfactory study power.
Four women were excluded because of the unsatisfactory study PS (n=3) and incomplete histological evaluation of the cervix (n=1).
This approach, however, was found to be unsatisfactory in studying the mechanisms of macro-mixing in the reactor because of the strong intermittence in the flow.
However, the signal enhancement provided by MNCs still remains unsatisfactory because the studies about the density of individual MNPs consisting MNCs have not been concerned yet.
In most of the studies, unsatisfactory samples were excluded from analysis while considered to be positive in a study [ 12].
The survival outcomes associated with conventional external beam radiation are unsatisfactory; therefore, many studies have focused on various alternative modalities.
The definition of adverse events in reports is unsatisfactory with most studies 14 16 17 20 indicating that fewer than 20% of RCTs satisfy these criteria adequately.
The Federal Trade Commission, a government agency that regulates marketing claims, declared its study unsatisfactory and prohibited Kellogg from making similar claims about its breakfast and snack products.
However, because DFTB3 empirical parameter is only available for elements C, H, O, N, S and P, and performance for phosphorous-containing molecules is often unsatisfactory, the current study was restricted to molecules only containing atoms of C, H, O, N, or S. All the chemical structures in the current study were retrieved from the Fragment-Like database of the ZINC database [14, 15].
