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progression) shall depend on the nature of the disease and also on the proposed
scope of a new research proposal, which can vary from case to case. The two main
elements in a TEV are (i) the straight line which represents the time and (ii) the
relevant processes or events which can occur across at any point or interval along
the straight line. It is a technique which aims to convert disease progression into a figure
so as to facilitate a layperson to have a better understanding of the sequence of events
occurring for a complicated disease process.