(1) The original method proposed for prosthetic valve evalation examined follow-up related to patients rather than the valves themselves and therefore neglected the possibility of factors other than the valve itself which could affect the fate of cardiac patients.
(2) Filtration of beta 2m across the dialyzer was absent with CU and minimal with EVAL.
(3) The authors report three cases of arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) with aneurysms arising from the feeding artery; all were successfully treated with a new nonadhesive liquid embolic material, ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL).
(4) Recalcification times increased proportionally with the amount of heparin bound on the membrane, while original EVAL membranes and the non-heparinized aminoacetalized membrane did not show increases in recalcification times.
(5) Post EVAL-4A sera enhanced the response of lymphocytes to Con-A and PHA, while Post EVAL-D sera showed a slight suppression to these mitogens.
(6) 50% of valine from the EVal(Val-AMP) complex isolated by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration was transferred to tRNA with a rate constant greater than 4 min-1 (pH 6.2, 10 degrees C).
(7) Despite EVAL and HP having an -OH %, complement activation products were relatively low with EVAL (less than 212%), HP (less than 13%), and PP (less than 131%).
(8) In the PMMA and EVAL groups, it was 53.6% and 68.4% respectively.
(9) This means that the heparinized EVAL membrane has a more nonthrombogenic property due to the release of heparin.
(10) The variation of albumin, IgG, and IgM sieving coefficients with time during dead-end filtration was investigated using human pooled plasma and two types of hollow fiber filters (cellulose acetate PF 100 and ethylene vinyl alcohol Eval 2A).
(11) The albumin S' of the PF 100 reaches 0.95 after 20 min of filtration but drops to 0.4 after 50 min, whereas the S' of the Eval filter, which never exceeds 0.6, remains at this level for at least 50 min.
(12) After road-mapping techniques, EVAL was injected slowly until the feeding artery and aneurysm were completely obliterated.
(13) Removal efficiency of beta 2-MG through EVAL-C and CA was lower as compared with that through other membranes (P less than 0.05), while the EVAL-C showed relatively higher removal efficiency for alpha 1-MG and alpha 1-AG.
(14) In plasma of HD patient treated with the EVAL membrane, we measured the hydrogen peroxide production both before and after dialysis.
(15) In the dialysers containing ethylene vinyl acetate (EVAL) or Cellulate the number of particles recovered were within the 95% range of the particles in the rinsing fluid and did not alter with increasing rinsing volume.
(16) Since its enhancing effect is considered to occur in the stratum corneum, its release from ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers (EVAc), ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers (EVAl) or poly(2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate) (pHEMA) membranes was used as a criterion for membrane selection.
(17) The clinical and pathological aspects of two large arteriovenous malformations which were removed totally after preoperative embolization using ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL) were studied.
(18) The materials were evaluated as hollow fibers built into modules, including polypropylene (PP; 0%), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA; 23.7%), ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVAL; 29.7%), Cuprophan (CP; 31.5%), and Hemophan (HP; 30.9%).
(19) We studied ten patients on hemodialysis (HD) treated in sequence with cuprophan (CU), ethylenevinylalcohol (EVAL), polyacrylonitrile (A-69) and polysulphone (PSP) membrane dialyzers.
(20) Minifilters of clinically available materials (PVA, EVAL-4A, and EVAL-D) used in extracorporeal therapies were evaluated.
Evil
Definition:
(a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
(a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
(a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
(n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
(n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
(n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(4) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(5) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(6) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(7) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(8) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(9) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(10) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
(11) We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil.
(12) Questioned as to whether Google needs to alter its mission statement, which was twinned with the company mantra “don’t be evil, for the next stage of company growth in an interview with the Financial Times , Page responded: “We’re in a bit of uncharted territory.
(13) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
(14) But at some point I realized that it's precisely because they continuously justify so much violence and aggression from their side that they have such a boundless compulsion to depict others as the Uniquely Primitive and Violent Evil.
(15) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(16) The US said it had removed North Korea – once a member of George Bush's axis of evil – from the terror list to breathe life into the stalled nuclear negotiations and would continue to pressure Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue.
(17) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
(18) Channel One also branded Berezovsky an "evil genius," and a report on his demise quoted a senior member of the ruling United Russia , Vyacheslav Nikonov, saying he found it hard to believe the news was true.
(19) In recent months there have been series of protests against the intensifying campaign, with one Catholic leader denouncing the cross removals as an “evil act” .
(20) Time and again they said to me: ‘I knew I shouldn’t, but I had to weigh it up against what was happening, and it was the lesser of two evils.’ Years later many of these women are still ashamed of themselves.