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Five studies were excluded, and the remaining nine trials were included in the present meta-analysis [ 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ] . Articles were excluded for the following reasons: the end-points of interest were not recorded [ 9 23 ] , non-ICU patients were studied [ 24 ] , and two studies compared early (post-pyloric or gastric) versus delayed (gastric) enteral nutrition [ 25 26 ] , Only medical, neurosurgical, and trauma patents were enrolled in the studies analyzed.
These eight "anti-environment" Senate votes were: a vote against de-funding the Synfuels Corp.; a vote in favor of constructing a highway along the boundary of a wilderness park in Hawaii; a vote against creating a new victim's compensation program under the Superfund program; a vote to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency; two highway bill votes; a vote against banning new billboard construction along federally subsidized highways; and a vote against a moratorium on issuing federal patents for hard-rock mining on public lands out west.
But even after the neon patents expired in the '30s and the form boomed, signs stayed expensive.
On the other hand, royalties from patents or commercialization of the products can be used to support further research.
During the 1950s, March of Dimes (see www.marchofdimes.com) developed polio vaccines without any patents at all [15].