(1) We used results from the 1986 National Mortality Follow-back Survey to estimate proportions of elderly decedents who were "fully functional" or "severely restricted" in the last year of life.
(2) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(3) Evidence suggests that among mainland-born decedents.
(4) Scene photographs reveal that the suicide weapon is in or resting on the hand of the decedent 20% of the time with handguns and 11% of the time with long guns.
(5) Using another sample of death certificates, comparisons of the information for 322 decedents with city directory data produced similar results.
(6) Unique data from a large sample of 4,263 decedents aged 45 years and over in Manitoba, Canada, describe actual utilization in the four years prior to death: all hospitalizations, nursing home stays, and ambulatory physician contacts.
(7) There were no significant differences in serum potassium between decedents and survivors in either of these treatment groups.
(8) Two control groups, one a decedent and the other a "living" series, were individually matched to the cases one-for-one.
(9) The validity of the procedure was tested on 341 decedents of known race who resided at the time of death within the Detroit, Michigan, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.
(10) Total care expenses of the older old were only slightly below those of the most expensive decedents, however, as expenses for nursing home and home health care more than offset lower medical service expenses.
(11) The distribution of deaths from various causes among these men was compared to that of other male decedents in the state.
(12) Age, sex, and metropolitan status of residence are associated with a listing of chronic alcohol abuse among decedents of liver cancer, varicose veins, symptomatic heart disease, septicemia, and respiratory system disease.
(13) A proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) analysis utilizing death certificates and work histories was performed on 201 white male decedents who had been employed in pulp and paper production plants and had died between 1970 and 1984.
(14) Most of the hyperthermia deaths occurred while the decedent was taking a sauna bath; most decedents were men aged 42-62 years.
(15) Histological changes in the decedents which were similar by both routes of administration were most marked in the lymphoreticular system but also occurred in the gut.
(16) HRH jumps were least common between 6 p.m. and midnight, all decedents were dressed in street clothing, only one was heard to have screamed, and all but one were dead on the scene.
(17) SACs below 150 mg% could not be used to predict whether or not the decedents had been engaged in active or sedentary behavior prior to death because both situations occurred with equal frequency.
(18) All decedents of motorcycle crashes in New Mexico from 1984 through 1988.
(19) Two control groups, one a decedent and the other a "living" series, were individually matched to cases one-for-one.
(20) Examination of reimbursement for nonacute services, not covered by Medicare, reveals that services for the "older old" may be less costly immediately prior to death than for younger decedents.
Decode
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "Decoding the tsetse fly's DNA is a major scientific breakthrough.
(2) TV decoders of UAR-1 type are recommended for clinical practice.
(3) In each case the probe was placed at a single site at the junction of the head and body of the subunit, near the decoding site and the area in which elongation factor Tu is bound.
(4) Factor 3 (mixed audio) was defined by accuracy at decoding discrepant cues and "noisy" audio cues.
(5) During retrieval, the bar code is decoded in real-time and the desired images are automatically retrieved.
(6) The consulting skills required of medical students and practitioners have been categorized into a number of specific skills, two of which are: students' ability to empathize with the patient; and ability to decode non-verbal cues given by the patient in the interview.
(7) The VBM deficit is a failure to decode the target stimulus, and is not simply a function of abnormalities due to an overactive transient channel system.
(8) Sixteen autistic children with WISC Performance IQs of 70 or above were analyzed to determine their conceptions of spatial relations, size comparisons, and gesture imitations through the use of the WISC, an originally devised Language Decoding Test (LDT), and a modified Gesture Imitation Test (GIT).
(9) The need to see or to call the medical team to decode them allows close collaboration between the family and the clinical team.
(10) Spokesmen for BSkyB and the Premier League said that previous rulings by the ECJ and the UK high court make it clear that it is illegal for pubs to use foreign decoders to air cheap sport.
(11) It is proposed that locale is decoded by a form of spectral pattern recognition, whereby the locale of the source is represented as a peak on an autocorrelation function.
(12) This innate mechanism may have features in common with the vocal signal decoding mechanism of subhuman primates.
(13) The total variation in informational entropy is zero in the cycle of the invertible system, while in the noninvertible system the entropy of decoding is less than that of encoding.
(14) Taken together, the results demonstrate that the 8-basepair acceptor stem and the long extra arm are crucial determinants of tRNA(Sec) which enable decoding of UGA140 in the fdhF message.
(15) One child illustrated the close association between writing and phonologic encoding and decoding operations, and two children the preservation of linguistic skills provided the acoustic channel was by-passed and language presented visually.
(16) Worryingly for Allardyce, Sunderland’s defence seemed to be having trouble decoding his passing radar.
(17) Decoding these mRNAs yields protein products of 182 (P1), 175 (P1), 140 (P2) and 136 (P2) amino acids.
(18) After the initial analyses (at least 15 cells per person) the slides were decoded, destained and reused for C and Q band polymorphism studies.
(19) In addition to this, decoded tomographic images of unrestricted depth are readily attainable.
(20) Moreover, we find that certain mild perturbations of the structure, for example, creation of G-U wobble pairs, generate resistance to streptomycin, an antibiotic known to interfere with the decoding process.