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Selective participation could be an important source of bias when investigating seroprevalence of vaccinepreventable diseases given the low participation rate in some age classes.
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More than one membrane was used for each sample when needed.
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When venturing beyond empirical data, scientists often bring in unnecessary and unnoticed conceptual baggage which can obstruct constructive consensus.
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Needed to make a high vowel non-back (front) when an onsetless vowel is word-initial.
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The other is that such a system generalizes locally when there are many similar elements that share a property.
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When the subject follows the verb, there is no number agreement.
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When the subject is in front of the verb, full agreement appears, see (6).
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Note, though, that these verbs can take the nasal prefix when the applicative/causative suffix -ke is present.
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Exploratory expressions should be seen as another important source of variation, on which reanalysis can work when grammaticalization takes place.
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Uninterpretable features, on the other hand, are erased when checked and therefore only trigger movement once.
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Eventually the cluster beam intensity will reach a minimum when the appropriate beam slice is directly in front of the target during ablation.
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In this case, when the cone angle is lower than a critical value, the collapse of the cone is done without jet production.
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When languages are in contact with each other, what changes do we expect to occur in their grammatical structures ?
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We suggested that information structure and heaviness are among the factors determining when one variant is favored over the other.
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By contrast, when the subject is in preverbal position, first conjunct agreement is ruled out.
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Hence, his reliance on those precepts when tackling hard cases is not something that he is legally at liberty to eschew.
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Seeing precedents as examples calls attention to the actionguiding capacity of decisions when whole categories have not been set.
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He criticises the company's behaviour when the evidence leads him to that conclusion.
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As such, they provide a tangible link with the celestial, especially when they are cared for, venerated and carried in procession.
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However, when asked about personal knowledge of a case, the lower group is the only one with higher than average figures.
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The courts do the requiting when they apply some secondary duty to the defendant in virtue of her wrong.
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When general institutional facts about the law prioritize justice, this gives the demands that justice makes on the law a genuinely moral priority.
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The question takes on particular force when we are dealing with felonies that have quite mild punishments associated with them.
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When viewed this way, some of the purportedly tough cases are not tough at all.
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In fact, one gets the impression that when people think about this topic, they think about equality.
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Similarly, when two legal rules conflict, the rule that was last enacted governs.
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The book, he notes, got a cool reception when it appeared in 1977.
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Indeed, when we include the political scale variable in the regressions, all of the other variables that gauge perceptions about distribution are rendered insignificant.
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The first comprises the years between 1970 and 1979, when, as might be expected, productivity increases.
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In addition, these reforms establish a basis for subsequent laws to institutionalise them, and they justify protests when new constitutional rights are violated or ignored.
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When private and public insurers compete for the same patients, it is inevitable that issues concerning selection bias arise.
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Even when different countries are implementing similar restructuring initiatives, these reforms often lead to different outcomes.
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When it came to the justification of the actual intervention, the idea of pre-emption did not arise at all.
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Do you claim that you are now entitled to a pension or will be entitled at a future date (state when) ?
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When he could, he delighted in unpacking what he saw as the admiral's vague pronouncements.
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In short, we need, when dealing with memory, to be as conscious of the power of the medium as of the intended message.
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Moreover, the sale was made during his lifetime when his library was, in a sense, a work in progress.
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The platoon is crossing on a pelican when the green man starts to flash.
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Twenty-one percent agreed with the statement that their doctor was strongly influenced by health insurance company rules when making decisions about their medical care.
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Other leading tariff reformers were more tough-minded when it came to the question of what they could offer the agricultural community.
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Primarily, the principle of cost-effectiveness was used when limiting/conditioning or totally rejecting a subsidy.
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The results did not change when we used these alternative measures of heart disease.
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There is also an issue to consider when regarding the circle of reconstruction.
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The picture of the sector changes fundamentally, however, when volunteer employment is taken into consideration.
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When a married man with children dies, his wife has lost a husband and the children have lost a father.
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To illustrate, a similar analysis can be presented when altruism takes a different form.
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When either or both factors are present, however, a window opens.
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The third cause was the problems caused when patients need hospital transport.
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When we continue to warm up, we move from equilibrium state towards an unstable state far from this equilibrium position.
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Locating neighborhoods, even when computationally expensive, facilitates the fast incorporation of up-to-date information.
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When the application moves to a new space, the context may be different.
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When government policies privilege an industry, firms in that industry become more profitable.
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When we introduce other factors into our analysis, however, the effects of government partisanship are transformed.
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A person co-operates with other people only when he or she sees it is in his or her own interest.
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Parties and interest groups target open seats, yet these seats are only most promising when the national tide is weak.
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When the party loses an election, the party's leader loses the post as national leader as well.
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The system will settle into a stable alignment when no actor can further reduce its frustration.
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In practice the updating is stopped when the changes become very small and the corresponding optimal policy does not change.
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The last ingredient is a means to connect a program to the first machine state encountered when it is run.
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In general, a structure is called free when it is left-adjoint to a forgetful functor.
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Deallocation is done by the garbage collector once for each segment when there are no more references to a segment.
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One potential concern when using monads to structure programs is that standard program optimisation techniques might not be applicable.
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Of course, when augment combinators based on both distinctions are available, the programmer is free to choose between them.
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Cells are larger when heap profiling is used, as we need to attach producer and constructor information to them.
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The improvement is not specific to the benchmark proposition, though of course the benefits are greatest when most conjuncts are tautologous and can be eliminated.
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They know the methodology to be used when facing a specific problem.
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When the pict is to be rendered, the drawing procedure is called with a target drawing context and offsets.
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Two memory contexts are considered the same if they are the same when viewed as functions.
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There is no 'return' when the evaluation of the function is complete.
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Most, if not all, have compromised themselves and are best advised not to denounce their own personal practices when encountered elsewhere.
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He himself will not forget to claim his ' kola ' or rightful ' part ', as occurs when the potential donor seems distracted or recalcitrant.
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Based on data when the child was symptomatic.
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Cats may acquire infection only when they begin to eat prey.
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When asked, 79% had conducted patient satisfaction surveys.
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Parents felt that general practitioners were often willing to prescribe antibiotics when they would prefer not to have had them.
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When patients indicated that their subjective overall quality of life was higher, time also seemed to pass subjectively faster.
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Most importantly, it reminds the reader that mutual fund fees should be a key aspect to consider when investing.
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Invisible costs are expected to be high when trustee governance is poor.
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When doing this, it is convenient to give each state a unique identification number.
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Further, the firm will exit when continuation is efficient.
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Follow-up clinics that can be accessed when patients or carers choose to are worth piloting and evaluating.
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The second point of comparison is ten years later, when the worker is age 60 with 30 years of service.
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Unfortunately, such schemes induce variations in the contribution rate when the age distribution changes.
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On average, both the replacement rate and the contribution rate decline when the degree of wage-bill indexation is increased.
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The results of this approximate model are very similar to those of the full diffusion equationwhen modelling the particular laboratory experiment described above.
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In fact, when you get home, your son brings up the incident and asks why the boy said what he did.
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Give an example of something that you hoped for when you were younger.
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When the copings arrived from the laboratories, all 36 copings were checked regarding their fit.
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When we compare our brain to those of other animals, the first thing that strikes us is its size.
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In the first round of infection, when all virions are pure wild type or pure mutant, the mutant virions cannot benefit from phenotypic hiding.
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When using these references, summarized below, auditors should ensure that the most current version available is used.
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When you gather background or other data, ensure that they are from the best available source(s).
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Legislatures usually establish the program purpose when they provide authority for the program.
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When public accountants are engaged, the engaging organization should ensure that the report is distributed appropriately.
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When her son dies during the fox-hunt, the accident is caused by a motorbike which frightens one of the horses.
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How could they think of themselves when their class and party needed their help?
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When they tried to explain their idea of women's place in the party, they liked the analogy to a large trade union.
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The acquisition cost of stewardship land shall be considered an expense in the period acquired when determining the net cost of operations.
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