background material

Information pertinent to understanding a clinical trial protocol.

Examples
Investigator brochure; literature review with references; history of similar agents used in current practice or in other trials; rationale; other documentation that places a study in context or presents critical features.

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The study and background material will be used to apply for a Waterways Grant to help fund repairs.

Alford Park & Carbide Dock Shoreline Repair and Protection

After a short introduction and some background material, the authors take the reader through chapters that differentiate learning by interest, readiness, learning profile, content, process and product.

Differentiating Instruction with Technology: International Society For Technology In Education

The idea was that these essays would inform the work of National Church Council, assist the conference of bishops in their deliberations, serve as background material for national convention delegates and form the basis for conference and/or congregational study this winter and spring.

Will we step back from the threshold or bite the bullet?

Science writers' guides to individual spacecraft provide extensive background material and contact information.

The Earth Observing System

Rather than explain the images, Davis offered imagistic, psychological background material.

Tim Davis: Bohen Foundation

More fascinating even than Richard Plantagenet's rise and fall is the meticulously researched background material, which pictures life among the European royals in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

The Perfect Prince: the Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England

The Mechanical" section serves as background material.

A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers: Strategies to Develop the Mind and Body for Optimal Performance

As background material, the article offers some remarkable statistics:

Into the unknown

The NIST dipole moment measurement technique overcomes the large uncertainties of other measurement techniques which were based on threshold currents of laser diodes, had large background material absorption, or had difficulty estimating coupling efficiency into and out of the QD region.

NIST measures dipole moment of semiconductor quantum dots

While the incidence, causes and cultural meanings of prostitution remain quite fascinating, Bentley relegates them to background material to examine changing models of prevention and reform.

Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914

They will serve as good background material for you to stand on when applying to various pharmaceutical companies.