And then, following our presentation, a very high quality study from Germany on the same topic was presented.
The APEAL Study complements the Initial Quality Study (IQS), which focuses on problems experienced by owners during the first 90 days of ownership.
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But at least one of the companies' outside experts said Friday that the data quality of the study was similar to that of other trials.
That is a debate we ought to have (hopefully informed by evidence of the same high quality as the NBER study).
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That's combined with a quality ranking from a landmark study by Stephen Jencks, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Baltimore, Md.
After exposing men to 'wet heat' for 30 minutes on alternating days, researchers found a temporary decline in sperm production but did not look at sperm quality before and after the study.
He said Mr Burnham replied in a note dated 24 March 2010 saying he had asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to study the data.
Virgin America is the highest-quality major airline in the United States, according to the 2013 Airline Quality Rating report, an annual study of airline performance.
The study said improving water quality was key to controlling starfish outbreaks, with increased agricultural run-off such as fertiliser along the reef coast causing algal blooms that starfish larvae feed on.
The Association of Chief Police Officers' lead on statistics, Douglas Paxton, said the study had noted the quality of crime recording by the UK police was "amongst the best in the world".
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The companies say they have been legitimately engaged in ensuring the quality of the data from the study, raising concerns with consultants as early as April 2006 and struggling to get things right since.
The American Lung Association's study ranks the air quality of 900 counties and more than 200 U.S. Census-defined Metropolitan Statistical Areas and Combined Statistical Areas--cities and their surrounding suburbs--where an air pollution monitor is present.
In the Archives of Internal Medicine, a study asked if a better quality of death takes place when per capital cost rise.
The Airline Quality Rating report is the premier statistical study of major airline performance in the United States, and has been conducted annually since 1991.
One of the worst cases occurred in September 2004 when the tiny biotech firm Atherogenics had to call in Nissen to help reinterpret results of a troubled IVUS study that suffered from data quality problems.
Sleepiness: Elderly people who frequently doze off during routine daily activities, such as reading or watching TV, have a greater chance of suffering a stroke than less sleepy individuals, according to a study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
In addition, the study further revealed that the quality of education in Arua district, as in other rural districts, is adversely affected by a severe lack of resources and professional teachers, as well as high student-to-teacher ratios and large class sizes.
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More than a third of the nation's 12.6 million cancer survivors had physical or mental health problems that put their overall health in jeopardy and had a negative impact on their quality of life, according to a recent study of federal health data funded by the National Cancer Institute.
The Research Council study was not tasked with assessing water quality surrounding hydraulic fracturing.
And this study makes no effort to gauge the quality of education.
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The insight comes from a study looking at London's air quality records.
The main beach in Weston-super-Mare received a pass in the MCS Good Beach Guide study, which focuses entirely on water quality standards and the risk of sewage pollution.
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To account for the sleep variable, researchers in this study kept close tabs on the duration and quality of sleep of the participants.
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If one cannot afford to study abroad, a Greek university offers poor quality tuition and, unless one's family can pull strings, few opportunities for getting a job afterwards.
The time it took for ambulances to arrive on the scene was similar for men and women, according to researchers at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, who published the study in the journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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They included physicians per capita, air quality, quality-of-aging metrics drawn from another Milken Institute study, and crime rates.
However for any quantifiable measure of market quality, such as costs or speed of execution, no study shows degradation.
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