(1) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(2) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(3) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(4) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(5) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(6) Symptomatic improvement was obtained in 14 of the 15 hands, and sensory-evoked response improved in 13 hands.
(7) 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.
(8) Systemic corticosteroids (i.e., prednisone, prednisolone or methylprednisolone) have improved the survival rate of patients with moderate and severe ulcerative colitis.
(9) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(10) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(11) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(12) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(13) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(14) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(15) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
(16) Her muscle weakness and hyperCKemia markedly improved by corticosteroid therapy, suggesting that the diagnosis was compatible with polymyositis (PM).
(17) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
(18) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(19) Akinetic symptoms were improved in 7 of 10 patients.
(20) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
Unimproved
Definition:
(a.) Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence.
(a.) Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings.
(a.) Not tilled, cultivated, or built upon; yielding no revenue; as, unimproved land or soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dislocation of the endoprosthesis was found in the 15 hands with unimproved abduction.
(2) At follow-up (mean 17.9 months), 27 patients were alive and clinically improved (group A) and 10 patients either died or were symptomatically unimproved (group B).
(3) Eight of nine endogenous patients, unimproved by REM sleep deprivation, did not improve with imipramine.
(4) Only three patients became afebrile within three days; four continued unimproved with fever and toxaemia for seven to nine days, when treatment was changed to chloramphenicol with good results.
(5) We suggest that scales be viewed as "diagnostic tests" for discriminating between improved and unimproved patients.
(6) Improved (relative to unimproved) depression was associated with borderline differences in the severity of physical disease and in the percent married.
(7) The 2 year post-injection survey by an independent observer, demonstrated that chemonucleolysis produced 9 good, 3 fair, and 8 unimproved results in 20 patients.
(8) In only a few cases postoperative dissatisfaction was likely to be caused by noticeable nasal deformities or (even less often) unimproved nasal obstruction.
(9) One unimproved patient died during a seizure 17 months after stimulation was initiated.
(10) Unimproved ecosystems, which often are located at high altitudes, are predisposed to receiving higher fallout because of high precipitation rates which enhance the likelihood of deposition.
(11) Through more than 20 to 30 times of therapy, the vision of 15.38% eyes increased more than "3 lines", 4% eyes increased more than 5 degrees in the visual field, 13.46% eyes improved in dark adaptation threshold (greater than 1.0), the visual functions of the rest eyes were slightly improved or unimproved.
(12) Although Dd, Ds, %FS, end-diastolic wall thickness (Thd), and PC in the improved group were not different from those in the unimproved group.
(13) Thus, as a group, the slight deterioration of ventricular function that occurred during Adriamycin therapy remained unimproved during the 1-year followup period.
(14) By oral IH administration, clinical improvement was found in 12 patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis (improved group), whereas it was not observed in 6 patients with cerebral arteriosclerosis, 2 patients with multiinfarct dementia and 2 patients with Alzheimer's disease (unimproved group).
(15) In 32 scintigraphically-improved areas, 30 vessels were angiographically patent, while five vessels were obliterated angiographically in 13 scintigraphically-unimproved areas (diagnostic validity was 76% of all 45 vessels).
(16) However, the severity of the disease remained unimproved.
(17) The control lambs and all ewes showed marked hypocupraemia throughout lactation, whereas the plasma copper concentrations of the treatment lambs, and also of single lambs with continuous access to unimproved hill grazings, remained normal.
(18) Of the 96 patients treated with endometrial ablation, 50% were amenorrheic, 26% had hypomenorrhea, 17% had eumenorrhea, and 7% were unimproved.
(19) Fifty of the 52 cases examined in the field occurred in horses that were dependent upon poor quality unimproved dry pasture.
(20) In retrospect, the two patients who were unimproved had been improperly selected.