Because of the this change, and because the data and safety monitoring board reviewed the data multiple times over the course of the study, the threshold for statistical significance was lowered to 0.036.
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But now that they're free from individual blame, there's also the strong possibility that the ISPs will be doing the data monitoring directly.
Novartis was informed that the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) overseeing ALTITUDE had recommended stopping the trial because Tekturna was unlikely to show any benefit, and potential safety concerns had been identified in these high-risk patients.
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Even without considering the additional sustainability benefits to be achieved from the scale and efficiency of commercial data centres, or the proactive monitoring of energy usage, private data centres can potentially quadruple utilisation to 80 per cent with only a 50 per cent increase in power consumption.
There's even a rudimentary web interface for monitoring the various data coming in from the sensors.
This was the recommendation of the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) based on its 5th unblinded review of all study safety data.
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The data monitoring committee overseeing the trial said patients were unlikely to benefit from the treatment, and identified higher adverse events in the subjects receiving the drug compares to placebo.
If, rather than monitoring the data generally, you look for confirmation of your own hypotheses about intention, then you can speed up and narrow the stream of information you need to take in.
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The action was based on the recommendation of the independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC), after it found an increased risk for non-fatal stroke, renal complications, hyperkalemia, and hypotension in patients taking aliskiren after 18-24 months.
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Also following the 2004 tsunami, UNESCO-IOC and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) agreed to explore the potential of using data from the International Monitoring System (IMS) for tsunami warning purposes.
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The trial was stopped early in July 2011 by the data and safety monitoring board when the benefits in the Mediterranean diet groups crossed a predetermined boundary.
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The Data Safety Monitoring Board for the APPROVe study recommended that the study be stopped for safety reasons.
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One, Marvin Konstam of Tufts University, said he was on the data safety monitoring board for a study of Natrecor.
Expect that to change over the next few years as the U.S. and other governments scale up investments in the environmental monitoring systems and data infrastructure assets.
In the current generation of the data center, you start monitoring network traffic.
This approach has enabled doctors to improve the well-being of their patients through additional data monitoring and control without the need for additional surgery.
Some of the main concerns that emerged were that existing data and monitoring systems in the region are perceived to be inadequate and weak and that stakeholders, the public, and even decision makers need to be better involved.
As a result of the positive interim analysis, the FAME II independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) has recommended investigators stop patient enrollment in this trial as the DSMB considers it unethical to continue to randomize patients to optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone.
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The researchers used data from the global network of solar monitoring telescopes (Gong) as well as the Soho satellite positioned in a stable orbit 1.6 million km (a million miles) closer to the Sun than the Earth.
Will the data safety-monitoring boards of these studies have to meet in order to make sure squamous cell patients are safe?
In addition, the report makes recommendations for improving the monitoring of HIV care across data systems, identifies and proposes solutions with regard to reducing reporting burden and streamlining data collection, and discusses ways health information technology can be used to facilitate the exchange of data to improve outcomes.
The report was based on data collected by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, (NARMS) a project sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Dr Alan Johnson, of the Public Health Laboratory Service's antibiotic resistance monitoring and reference laboratory, said the study confirmed data from previous research.
The participants assembled extensive data and worked out basic principles for monitoring and safeguarding the threatened languages of Siberian peoples.
The key factor behind the uncertainty, however, according to the authors, is the limited scope of available monitoring and data.
The lack of a data safety monitoring board is "sub-optimal, " says Steven Joffe, a bioethicist and researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Center.
He suggests that random testing of the monitoring system to determine how much data it's collecting could help ensure the program avoids privacy violations.
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