Links with large strengths are kept as direct links; whereas links with small strengths are treated as indirect ones and removed.
While this is less likely to be a problem when analyzing factors with strong biologic associations with survival (like baseline CD4 counts), factors with smaller strengths of association but with considerable public health impact may conceivably be missed if losses to follow-up are censored.
Thus, taking the angle defined by two segments with a common endpoint as a proximity measure, if two segments are considered near enough, the one with the smallest strength is removed from the set of detected segments.
A previous test of concurrent validity found that DSC-R scores were negatively correlated, with small or moderate strength, to the HRQOL subscales measured with a generic instrument [ 6].
Similarly, nortriptyline was classified as second line, again due to lack of FDA approval, its side-effect profile, and a limited number of clinical studies with small sample sizes (strength of evidence =level B). 5 Varenicline was not included, presumably because it was still a relatively new agent at the time the guidelines were being formulated.
Compared with the performance of the specimen strengthened with the high strength strands, the specimen reinforced with side plates showed slightly smaller strength but more stable behavior.
However it had insufficient power to determine the significance of risk factors with lower prevalence (such as recreational drug use), or that have a smaller strength of association with late stillbirth, such as smoking.
The results showed that when initial distortion shape and geometrical nonlinearity are properly considered, the small- and full-scale specimens have equal fatigue strength with small scatter and the same S-N curve slope close to m = 5.
Because of the small volumes of capillary electrophoresis combined with small variations in buffer strength, retention times varied slightly when comparing separate electrophoresis runs.
The data therefore appear to show a graded response with small reductions in the strength of support moving from physical through psychological and social care to spiritual care.
