The other losing motion, filed by the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, had sought to block the entire hunt on the ground that it was not based on a valid count of the number of black bears in the state.
The final valid count reached 20 print and 269 electronic surveys, totaling 289 U.S. respondents.
A valid day counts at least 10 hours of wearing time (Ward, Evenson, Vaughn, Rodgers, & Troiano, 2005).
Accelerometry data were considered valid if counts were present for at least three days with at least 8 hours of recording per day.
The clinical data warehouses (CDWs) at each site were filled with the mapped EHR data; so that queries generated using the EHR4CR PF system could retrieve valid patient counts from the sites.
For each participant we will generate the following at each data collection point: number of valid minutes, counts per minute, proportion of time spent at each level of physical activity, using the cut-offs from Freedson et al [ 73].
— Hooman Majd (@hmajd) 15 Jun 13 It remains possible that the cleric could end up with slightly more than 50 percent of the valid votes counted, but slightly less than 50 percent of the total votes, making a second-round runoff possible.
The Republicans claimed victory for their candidate, George A. Amedore Jr., on Monday after all ballots deemed valid were counted, but Democrats said they would appeal and expressed optimism that their candidate, Cecilia F. Tkaczyk, would ultimately prevail.
"Obviously the goal in this is to have every valid vote counted," Mr. Ginsberg said, "and to not allow the sort of rhetorical overkill, on either intimidation or fraud, to be used in a tainted fashion to interfere with the get-out-the-vote operation".
Eric Kleefeld, who's been following this case at TPM as closely as anyone in the country, wrote the following yesterday, anticipating some Coleman legal team arguments: The Coleman campaign has argued that thousands more rejected absentee ballots from their campaign's list should have been declared valid and counted.
