(1) This technique was applied to a discriminant function model using selected electroencephalographic sleep measures (sleep maintenance, percentage of rapid-eye-movement sleep, and percentage of indeterminate non-rapid-eye-movement sleep) in elderly patients with major depression or dementia of the Alzheimer type.
(2) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(3) Two complementary tests were used: a radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA) and a HIV EIA recombinant assay (ENVACOR) to check 53 of these indeterminate sera.
(4) After complete, high quality x-ray mammography, a palpable mass or nonpalpable mammographic abnormality may remain indeterminate in etiology, and ultrasound may be useful as an adjunctive diagnostic modality.
(5) For the antibody-negative specimens, 90.3% of the results were interpreted as negative, 1.3% as positive, and 8.4% as indeterminate.
(6) David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation and a man you should always take seriously, believes there is a "small but indeterminate category of national security-related claims" in which closed hearings would be justified.
(7) Until recently it has been difficult to counsel blood donors with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)-indeterminate Western blot results due to a lack of information concerning the significance of this finding.
(8) Among Group 3 two target lesions could not be identified on specimen radiographs and one was indeterminate.
(9) As each microregion contains an unknown amount of embedding medium, this quantity generally lies indeterminately somewhere within the wide range between mmol of element per kg of hydrated tissue and mmol of element per kg of dehydrated tissue.
(10) Of the 12 children with continued indeterminate HIV-1 status, eight showed neither slgA nor serologic evidence of infection and four showed slgA antibodies.
(11) In the third case, which on gray-scale imaging appeared as an indeterminate cystic structure of the cord, color Doppler imaging demonstrated a complex abnormal vascular pattern suggestive of an angiomyxoma.
(12) Twenty six type strains were readily grouped, the oxidase positive, the oxidase negative, and the oxidase indeterminate groups.
(13) Clinical results included 18 cures, 3 improvements, 2 indeterminates, and 6 failures.
(14) No serum specimen collected after 2-11 months from individuals with indeterminate Western blot results was positive by EIA or Western blot.
(15) Of 198 patients who had colectomy or proctocolectomy because of inflammatory bowel disease, 52% had ulcerative colitis and 37% had Crohn's disease, 11% were indeterminable according to histologic evaluation of the surgical specimens.
(16) Physicians have generally remained passive or intransigent as the society in which they function attempts to compensate for the indeterminate nature of these clinical questions.
(17) Sixty-six patients had normal lung scans, 29 had high-probability defects suggestive of PE, and 21 had indeterminate-probability of PE.
(18) The cumulative patency rate at 5 years was 80% in the atherosclerosis group, 89% in the FMD group, and 74% in the indeterminate group.
(19) The results suggest that Chagas' disease in rhesus monkeys reproduces the acute and indeterminate phases of human Chagas' disease.
(20) In a large number of cases the initial manifestations are those of the indeterminate form and, in an even larger number of cases, of the tuberculoid pole.
Predeterminism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(2) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(3) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
(4) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
(5) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
(6) Minute ventilation (VE) was kept constant at a predetermined individual level during all treatments.
(7) Thus, it appears that the increased expression of the regulatory MLC2 gene in SHR atrial cells is a predetermined event, which, most likely, participates in functional adaptation of the myocardium in response to pressure overload and subsequent hypertrophy.
(8) Furthermore, the minimal actual treatment differences that can be detected with a reasonable (80%) probability at a predetermined (5%) significance level using a crossover design were estimated for different electrophysiologic variables.
(9) Each student conducted a medication-history interview with one of two simulated patients who presented a predetermined history; interviews were videotaped from behind a one-way mirror.
(10) The %s of fibroblasts, PMN's lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages were estimated in a predetermined standardized area close to the apical termination of the junctional epithelium.
(11) Under in vitro inhibition of alpha-glucosidasic activity by glucose in hemolymph of Bee prenymphas, the reaction order (n) (predetermined according to the initial natural glycemia) decreases with increasing inhibitor concentration and the affinity constant between enzyme and substrate undergoes lower variations than in other cases where (n) does not change.
(12) The effect of indomethacin administration on the mortality rate of brain-injured rats was studied in four groups of animals subjected to a level of injury with a fluid-percussion apparatus predetermined to cause 50% mortality (50% lethal dose, or LD50).
(13) To estimate the mean cardiac output, at least two measurements should be made at predetermined points of the ventilatory cycle.
(14) Microliter volumes of cell suspension were placed directly onto a computer-controlled cryostage and cooled to a predetermined subzero temperature.
(15) A genetic procedure is directed for the isolation of chromosomal deletions and duplications with predetermined endpoints.
(16) Specific checklists completed by patients and predetermined scoring protocols yielded reliable data and reduced faculty time.
(17) "It seems that the Metropolitan police, the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] and even the court have all colluded to implement a predetermined decision which was made in Washington.
(18) Various techniques can be used to deposit the dose accurately in a predetermined intracranial volume.
(19) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
(20) Eleven children with severe perennial asthma and a poor clinical response to disodium cromoglycate were studied in a 4-month, double blind trial involving 1 month's treatment with placebo, disodium cromoglycate, betamethasone 17 valerate, and both drugs combined according to a predetermined random design.