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Study participants. A set of participants of the Sant Pau Initiative on Neurodegeneration (SPIN cohort) was included in the study. The SPIN cohort is a multimodal research cohort for biomarker discovery and validation that includes participants with different neurodegenerative dementias, mild cognitive impairment and cognitively normal controls. All participants receive an extensive neurological and neuropsychological evaluation and undergo structural 3T brain MRI, blood extraction, and lumbar puncture for CSF biomarkers. A subset of participants also receives molecular imaging such as 18F- Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET, amyloid and/or Tau PET. More information on the SPIN cohort can be found at xxxxx://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/our-research/spin-cohort (Alcolea et al., in preparation). In this study, we included all 94 participants from the SPIN cohort recruited between November 2013 and September 2017 that had available CSF samples and 18F- Florbetapir PET imaging. Their clinical diagnoses were mild cognitive impairment (n=35), AD dementia (n=12), other dementias or neurodegenerative diseases (that included dementia with Lewy bodies [n=30], frontotemporal dementia [n=9], vascular dementia [n=1], and motor neuron disease [n=1]), and cognitively normal controls (n=6). All participants gave written consent, and the ethics committee of Hospital Sant Pau approved all procedures included in this study.
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Study participants. We included 94 participants in the study. Table 1 summarizes demographic characteristics and biomarker results in the overall study population and according to the visual interpretation of amyloid PET scans as amyloid-positive (63%) or amyloid- negative (37%). There were no differences in age or sex between both groups. As expected, the amyloid-positive group had a higher proportion of APOEε4 carriers compared to the amyloid-negative group (52% and 20%, respectively; p=0.004).
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Study participants. Purposeful sampling techniques were used to recruit for the focus groups (Hennink et al., 2010). The aim was to recruit gardeners from different garden contexts and locations who had varying soil testing experiences. Focus group participants were recruited via email solicitation utilizing listservs from community garden and environmental organizations. To be eligible to participate in the focus group, community garden administrators/leaders had to be at least 18 years of age and involved at their present community gardening site in five metropolitan Atlanta counties (Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Xxxxxx, and Gwinnett) for at least 3 months. Potential participants were emailed a survey to ensure their eligibility status. In the eligibility survey, gardeners were asked to share their garden context (e.g., neighborhood, park, school, faith-based, senior-center, healthcare facility), community garden county location, focus group availability times, and whether they had previously tested their garden soil. As an incentive for focus group participation, potential participants were offered a free heavy metal soil screening (valued at $35), interpretation of soil screening results, and resources for more information to reduce exposure. Participants were provided instructions and technical assistance on how to collect their soil samples, and they brought their soil samples to their respective focus group session. Focus group participants also received a gardening gift consisting of gloves, trowel, seeds, and best practices information on reducing exposure to soil contaminants in urban environments. Ethical Consideration The research protocol was reviewed and determined exempt by Emory University Institutional Review Board.
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Study participants. Women resident in the study area with a living child aged below two years (0–23 months) were invited to participate in the survey. Those who refused to participate were excluded.
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Study participants. SAWASDEE Pilot Cohort, Thailand The SAWASDEE study is a longitudinal birth cohort comprised of pregnant women working in agriculture and their neonates. The goal of the study is to understand the overall effects of prenatal environmental exposures on neurodevelopment in this population. The current study will focus on the pilot birth cohort of the SAWASDEE study, where all participants work in the Chiang Mai Province of northern Thailand. Pregnant women (n=59) who had their first prenatal clinic visit at Fang Hospital (Northern Thailand) were recruited into the pilot cohort. Recruitment for the longitudinal study was conducted from March 2011 to February 2012. In order to be eligible for the study, the pregnant women were required to fit the following inclusion criteria (55, 57):
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Study participants. Ú častníci klinického hodnocení The Institution shall ensure that: Zdravotnické zařízení zajistí, že:
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Study participants. Conducting studies with stakeholders require more effort in recruiting participants than studying the public opinion. This is due to the fact that for surveying the public all relevant information for identifying a representative sample is available through public sources like official statistics. In contrast, the stakeholder population for a topic or an issue is not officially filed, thus, it is not known how many individuals belong to that population and how it is composed. Our sampling will be deliberate and systematic rather than representative in a statistical sense. First, interviewees and organisations were selected to reflect a range of positions in the relevant innovation systems, though with an emphasis on demonstration projects (on stationary and transport applications) and networks. This stratification and systematisation reflect project objectives and aim at understanding the variety of experiences and views of individuals working in a range of projects, differentiated by project objective, type, scale and country. Second, we also recruited stakeholders by snowball sampling. With the help of some interviewees additional interviewees not identified earlier will be added. Again, respondents will only be selected if they fit with the relevant criteria and add value to the sample. This means that it is not possible to make judgements about the representativeness of a sample as it is e.g. not know to which degree the FCH community consists of engineers or scientists, professionals in marketing or research & development. Furthermore the number of members of the public is much higher than the number of stakeholders. Thus, more time and effort is needed to identify and recruit possible study participants. Preparatory steps for this have been undertaken during WP2 by identifying stakeholders, policies and projects. From this work some conclusions about the situation and the market stage of FCH technologies in the different countries were developed. More generally, what became also obvious in this stage, to conduct a high quality stakeholder study a good knowledge about FCH technologies in each country, especially including some contacts to relevant people, would be necessary. Therefore, the stakeholder study will only be conducted in the five countries where one of our partners is located, i.e. ES, DE, FR, SL, UK. Stakeholder survey In WP2 extensive lists of stakeholders were collected for each country and served as a basis for potential survey respond...
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Study participants. To be eligible for inclusion in this study, households needed to have a child under age five, household representative should have completed the survey portion on safe child feces disposal determinants, and households should have no data required for analysis missing. The baseline survey was administered to 3,979 households out of which 935 (23.5%) had a child under five. Of the remaining 935 households only 806 met all the inclusion criteria for the study. Figure 1 shows a diagram depicting how the sample size for analysis was obtained. Primary Outcome of Interest
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  • Eligible Participants Families and individuals experiencing homelessness. For the purposes of the Program, families and individuals are considered to be homeless only when he/she/they lack(s) a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence and reside(s) in a place not meant for human habitation, such as cars, parks, sidewalks, abandoned buildings, motels, or other shelters, or for reference as further defined in 24 CFR Part 578.3 and 576.2.

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  • Rights of Participants Any participant in a Lender's interests hereunder may assert any claim for yield protection under Section 4.03 that it could have asserted if it were a Lender hereunder. If such a claim is asserted by any such participant, it shall be entitled to receive such compensation from the Borrower as a Lender would receive in like circumstances; provided, however, that with respect to any such claim, the Borrower shall have no greater liability to the Lender and its participant, in the aggregate, than it would have had to the Lender alone had no such participation interest been created.

  • Instructions for Certification - Lower Tier Participants (Applicable to all subcontracts, purchase orders and other lower tier transactions requiring prior FHWA approval or estimated to cost $25,000 or more - 2 CFR Parts 180 and 1200)

  • Participants and SPVs In addition to the other rights provided in this Section 9.9, each Lender may, (x) with notice to Agents, grant to an SPV the option to make all or any part of any Loan that such Lender would otherwise be required to make hereunder (and the exercise of such option by such SPV and the making of Loans pursuant thereto shall satisfy the obligation of such Lender to make such Loans hereunder) and such SPV may assign to such Lender the right to receive payment with respect to any Obligation and (y) without notice to or consent from Agents or the Borrowers, sell participations to one or more Persons in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents (including all its rights and obligations with respect to the Revolving Loans and Letters of Credit); provided, however, that, whether as a result of any term of any Loan Document or of such grant or participation, (i) no such SPV or participant shall have a commitment, or be deemed to have made an offer to commit, to make Loans hereunder, and, except as provided in the applicable option agreement, none shall be liable for any obligation of such Lender hereunder, (ii) such Lender’s rights and obligations, and the rights and obligations of the Credit Parties and the Secured Parties towards such Lender, under any Loan Document shall remain unchanged and each other party hereto shall continue to deal solely with such Lender, which shall remain the holder of the Obligations in the Register, except that (A) each such participant and SPV shall be entitled to the benefit of Article X, but, with respect to Section 10.1, only to the extent such participant or SPV delivers the tax forms such Lender is required to collect pursuant to subsection 10.1(f) and then only to the extent of any amount to which such Lender would be entitled in the absence of any such grant or participation and (B) each such SPV may receive other payments that would otherwise be made to such Lender with respect to Loans funded by such SPV to the extent provided in the applicable option agreement and set forth in a notice provided to Agent by such SPV and such Lender, provided, however, that in no case (including pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above) shall an SPV or participant have the right to enforce any of the terms of any Loan Document, and (iii) the consent of such SPV or participant shall not be required (either directly, as a restraint on such Lender’s ability to consent hereunder or otherwise) for any amendments, waivers or consents with respect to any Loan Document or to exercise or refrain from exercising any powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the Loan Documents (including the right to enforce or direct enforcement of the Obligations), except for those described in clauses (ii) and (iii) of subsection 9.1(a) with respect to amounts, or dates fixed for payment of amounts, to which such participant or SPV would otherwise be entitled and, in the case of participants, except for those described in clause (vi) of subsection 9.1(a). No party hereto shall institute (and the Borrowers and Holdings shall cause each other Credit Party not to institute) against any SPV grantee of an option pursuant to this clause (f) any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation or similar proceeding, prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper of such SPV; provided, however, that each Lender having designated an SPV as such agrees to indemnify each Indemnitee against any Liability that may be incurred by, or asserted against, such Indemnitee as a result of failing to institute such proceeding (including a failure to get reimbursed by such SPV for any such Liability). The agreement in the preceding sentence shall survive the termination of the Commitments and the payment in full of the Obligations.

  • Instructions for Certification – First Tier Participants a. By signing and submitting this proposal, the prospective first tier participant is providing the certification set out below.

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