As we adhere on a day-by-day basis to written standard operating procedures, all perioperative procedures (anesthetic management, ICU management, transfusion guidelines, and so on) are extremely standardized.
We adhere to the recommendations by Davies, and as far as possible use a non-touch technique when inserting half-pins [10].
With respect to the measurement of the cost of equity capital, we adhere to suggestions made by Gebhardt et al. (2001), as well as Hail (2002), to compute the ex-ante cost rate via the 'residual income model', in which firm value is represented as a function of forecasted accounting data subject only to the 'clean surplus relation'.
We adhered to this by providing informational videos from professionals from different fields.
He particularized by saying that he thought we adhered too faithfully to reality by portraying the typical ambitions and aggression of social groups, "Don't you think it would be better if you lowered the public's anxiety level, like McCalls?" We told him we would take this under advisement.
Oh yeah, that's right, I'm doing me!" became not just a well-recited line, but a mantra by which we adhered to at all times, whether that meant eating oysters at 8am, ordering a set of lavender-scented pillows from room service, or trying to squeeze six bottles of Sonoma wine into our hold luggage on the way home.
In our work with animals, we adhered to ACUC protocols approved by the Northwestern University Animal Care and Use Committee.
Logistic regression is a parameter-free machine-learning algorithm; we adhered to an implementation offered by the LIBLINEAR package (L2-regularized logistic regression, dual) [ 22].
We adhered to Ugandan testing guidelines by actively encouraging all participants to receive their test results, but receiving the result was optional and not a requirement for participation.
In our analysis, we adhered to quality criteria defined by Mayring [ 26]: we chose a semi-structured interview style and an inductive analytic approach in order to have an open mind to any emerging aspects not previously considered.
