For the patients who were positive by RDT during follow-up, it was ascertained whether they had received appropriate first-line treatment and whether their condition had improved.
In particular it was ascertained whether there was a skilled attendant at the birth.
If the most distressing loss had occurred during the genocide, it was ascertained whether the dead body had been retrieved.
For each qualitative study, it was ascertained whether it contained a good description of the research team and reflexivity, the study design and the analysis and findings, the three domains of the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative studies (COREQ) checklist [ 7].
It is out of scope of this paper to propose a new CSMA/CA protocol; therefore, we consider the protocol, whose flowchart is reported in Fig. 4. Before transmission, the contending nodes sense the channel to ascertain whether it is busy or idle: the channel is ascertained to be busy if the level of sensed power in the channel is above a certain CCA threshold, CCAthr.
There is a subgroup of children who have auditory processing problem though it cannot be ascertained whether the auditory processing problem is the causal factor for dyslexia or it is just an associated factor.
To determine the empirical possibility of a thing, according to Immanuel Kant (1724 1804), it must be ascertained whether the nature of the thing in question conforms to the conditions of actual experience.
But before the process is put to large-scale use, it must be ascertained whether salvinia vermicompost is as much, or at least nearly as much, soil friendly and plant friendly as manure-based vermicompost is known to be.
Presently, the oldest commonly agreed upon fossil microorganisms (it cannot be ascertained whether these organisms were archaebacteria, bacteria, or perhaps members of another no-longer-existent line of organism) are dated back to approximately 3.45 billion years ago (Schopf 1993).
A spokesman for the Lancashire force said they "believe there was an investigation in the late 1960s, but as no records are now held, it cannot be ascertained whether a file was passed to the Director of Public Prosecutions".
The optimal size of herds has not been determined in the context of Soqotra's grazing resources and the frequency of the island's climatic vagaries (e.g. unpredictable rainfall and drought); therefore, it cannot be ascertained whether this figure exceeds the island's carrying capacity – if such a measure can be meaningfully established.
