The study met its primary endpoint of durable response rate (DRR), defined as the rate of complete or partial response lasting continuously for at least six months.
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The drug combo did decrease the progression of cancer by 15% to 8.9 months and had a 21% improvement in the response rate of patients.
It surveyed 10, 000 teachers, head teachers and deputies and 4, 370 questionnaires were returned, a response rate of 44%.
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In 2011, it was the slowest service in the country for attending less urgent calls with a response rate of 74.3% from 17, 591 calls.
"This is the most provocative response rate of any cancer drug in a Phase I trial that I have seen in eight years, " said Tolcher.
Some 2, 536 completed the survey, for a response rate of 62%.
The single currency has deprived its members of any independent control over monetary policy or the exchange rate, so the burden of any necessary response to a recession falls more on fiscal policy.
While there is no universally accepted minimum response rate for publication of surveys in social science and health research, the American Association for Public Opinion Research asked journals about this issue and found that 60-80% response range is acceptable, while one journal said that below 20% is just too low.
The willingness of investors to pin their hopes on a rate cut is understandable: after all, that has been the response of the Fed to every financial panic since the stockmarket crash of 1987.
Based on this, I think a 2.2% response rate would be rejected out of hand.
University of Wisconsin Survey Center also expects a minimum of 30-40% response rate for web surveys to be valid.
That is a startlingly high response rate for most any kind of marketing pitch, especially in this era of advertising clutter.
The overall response rate was over 12% of the delivered surveys.
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"Stocks should continue to sag under the weight of the Fed's disappointing rate response on Tuesday and the European Central Bank's refusal to admit to the risks emanating from global economic weakness, " economist at Bear Stearns wrote in a note to investors.
The best results of all are obtained when the response to one burst of stimuli is used to regulate the rate and voltage of the next.
Because of the study's low response rate--around 5%--no two conflicting responses necessarily come from any one company.
The remaining criminal count pertains to two BP communications made to a member of Congress during the spill response about flow rate estimates.
Fox's response: a gradual reduction of the corporate tax rate to 30% from 34%.
That's a better response rate than the year before, when 85% of companies gave shareholders the back of their hands, says the Council of Institutional Investors.
Co-ordinating a European response amid a series of currency crises or exchange-rate rows would have been far trickier.
We adjusted salary data to account for cost-of-living expenses and discarded any school with a response rate below 15%.
The Fed's interest-rate cuts in response to August's turmoil thus represented an easing of policy at a time when many emerging economies were already booming.
Acting as a messenger between the central nervous system and the major organs, the vagus nerve slows the heart rate (through the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine), calms the immune response (by controlling the release of proteins called cytokines), and communicates with the muscles that control respiration and digestion.
Should a delegation travel from Wales to London to meet the Treasury and the Department for the Environment asking for a market rate for water transfers, I imagine the first response would be an examination of the financial transfers between England and Wales.
Onyx has data showing that Sorafenib slows tumor growth, compared with a placebo, but in late-stage trials only 2% of patients had their tumors shrink enough to be counted in the response rate.
There has been a 33 percent increase in the number of investors asking for corporate water disclosure through CDP, but the response rate from the Global 500 has remained stagnant since last year (at 60%).
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One reason for the limited response rate may be that some patients' T cells do a poor job of recognizing melanoma.
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