(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(4) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(5) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(6) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(7) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(8) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(9) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(10) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(11) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(12) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
(13) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
(14) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(15) These agents may improve functional status, but in general have had little impact on survival.
(16) While much research has examined the aetiology and treatment of asthma, little work has been done on its social impact.
(17) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(18) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(19) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
(20) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
Influential
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.
(2) I care far more that women are absolutely essential to political life, influential at every level, and are leading dynamic conversations in the public sphere around social and cultural change.
(3) Phosphate was the most influential milk salts component that protected the cells and promoted repair of injury.
(4) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(5) Fry, who has more than six million followers on Twitter, is an influential voice in the campaign to boycott the Sochi Games, comparing the situation to the decision to hold the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
(6) Alcohol and drugs are influential in providing a feeling of hopelessness by their toxic effects, by disruption of interpersonal relationships and social supports, and, possibly, by manipulating neurotransmitters responsible for mood and judgment.
(7) Even more influentially, it was a mostly black community.
(8) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(9) He moved on to Tunis and Paris, and became editor-in-chief of the influential literary review Al-Karmel.
(10) An amendment from George Eustice, a new but influential MP who used to work for Cameron, calls on the coalition to publish a white paper in the next two years setting out which powers ministers would repatriate from Brussels.
(11) In the process, PR firms have grown even more influential in shaping the debate around climate policy, said James Hoggan, who ran his own public relations firm in Vancouver and founded DeSmogBlog , a blog that describes itself as “clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science”.
(12) This approach to circumscription is inspired by the influential work of John McCarthy at Stanford University.
(13) Survey data were collected from a sample of 298 occupational therapy department directors on (a) department demographics; (b) availability of micro- or macrocomputers; (c) types of hardware, software, and peripheral devices used; (d) major purposes and functions for computers; and (e) major factors regarding choice of computers and equipment or factors most influential in the nonuse of computers.
(14) Children are taught to use condoms there,” Pokrovsky said, indicating that was hardly imaginable in modern Russia where the Orthodox church is growing increasingly influential.
(15) 2 groups who were particularly influential were the doctors and the academic eugenists.
(16) Multiple regression of this preventive orientation index on selected independent variables showed that, for the entire sample, variables representing involvement in academic and institutional dentistry, exposure to education through journals and courses, a predeliction for innovation, and the presence of a hygienist in the office, were most influential in creating a model that successfully predicted reported preventive behavior.
(17) But the remarks by Gross, whose pronouncements on bond markets are regarded as highly influential, added to the sense that the economy remained in a dangerously parlous state.
(18) Professor Lord Stern of the London School of Economics, the author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change for the Treasury in 2006, warned that if the pattern continued, the results would be dire.
(19) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.
(20) This study suggests that for children whole-day heart rate monitoring is an objective, nonobtrusive method for measuring physical activity; and maturation, but not gender, is an influential mediating factor for activity.