(1) The standard error of prediction for each equation is slightly less than that for predicting WAIS IQ from the NART.
(2) Inclusion of NART estimated IQs in the analyses resulted in significantly greater discrimination than was achieved by WAIS IQs alone.
(3) However, within the sample with schizophrenia, NART estimated pre-morbid IQ was significantly higher than currently measured intellectual abilities.
(4) This tape was then 'scored' for accuracy of pronunciation by 10 experienced clinical psychologists who use the NART in their routine clinical practice.
(5) The Vocabulary performance of the depressed group was significantly poorer than controls but there was no significant difference in NART performance.
(6) The danger in using the NART for this purpose is that it yields an invalid estimate if a client's performance on the test has suffered impairment.
(7) Although the NART has been shown to hold in dementia, depression and head injury, reports to date have inferred premorbid IQs with no actual data on premorbid functioning.
(8) Fifteen normal elderly control subjects were administered the WAIS and the NART.
(9) For most subjects in the community the NART was found acceptable as a measure of premorbid intelligence.
(10) The National Adult Reading Test (NART: Nelson, 1982) has become the standard means of estimating premorbid intelligence.
(11) This study undertook a double cross-validation of the NART on a neurologically normal sample (N = 104) and on a clinically relevant sample (49 aged subjects).
(12) NART was found to be strongly related to current level of cognitive function as measured by the Mini Mental State Examination and CAMCOG-the neuropsychological battery of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders in the Elderly.
(13) Total NART scores predicted in this way were highly significantly correlated with the actual NART score for all groups.
(14) In addition to the NART, a battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to 18 AD and 20 elderly control subjects at yearly intervals over 3 years.
(15) When demographic variability between the groups was controlled for, there were no group differences in terms of NART performance.
(16) The validity of the NART in estimating premorbid ability in Alcoholic Korsakoff Syndrome (AKS) is examined in the present study.
(17) There was no significant difference in NART performance between control subjects and the alcoholic dementia, DAT, MID, and CHI groups.
(18) Associations between the NART and other cognitive measures yielded few significant results.
(19) NART scores were significantly correlated with dementia severity in AD subjects at final testing only, suggesting that the NART is sensitive to dementia severity only at the later stages of the disease.
(20) A highly significant correlation between the NART and VF was obtained indicating that premorbid ability should be taken into account when interpreting VF performance.
Wart
Definition:
(n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
(n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of areas of condyloma, as well as capsid antigens, indicates that lesions containing HPV 16 share certain similarities with conventional warts associated with other HPVs.
(2) The types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) were similar in warts of butchers from these slaughterhouses and of 63 butchers from various slaughterhouses all over the country.
(3) The goat isolates were obtained from animals with various disease conditions including respiratory tract disorders, vulvovaginitis, and wart-like lesions on the eyelid.
(4) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(5) We present a patient whose genital warts were recalcitrant to treatment.
(6) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(7) There was no cross-reactivity between these two viruses, neither with HPV1 responsible for plantar warts nor with HPV2 inducing common warts.
(8) No correlation between the atypical changes and the type of previous therapy for the warts was found.
(9) These findings were confirmed by examination of the experimental cases on the basis of the gross diameter of the warts.
(10) By means of hybridization of nucleic acid, we detected DNA specific for papilloma virus, type 6a, in a caruncle papilloma of a 45-year-old female patient suffering from genital warts.
(11) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
(12) To evaluate the association of genital herpes, genital warts, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis with the occurrence of subsequent tubal infertility, 321 women who had tubal infertility were interviewed concerning their history of these sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
(13) Podofilox 0.5% offers potential advantages in safety and cost over podophyllin resin therapy of genital warts.
(14) About 1 ml of cream per lesion was applied to the warts for 20 to 105 minutes before the operation.
(15) The transmission rate was higher in couples who engaged in anal sex (OR, 2.8; 95% CI, 1.3 to 6.3); in women reporting vaginitis (OR, 4.9; 95% CI, 2.4 to 10.2) or genital warts (OR, 33.3; 95% CI, 4.5 to 244.1); and in those using intrauterine devices (OR, 3.1; 95% CI, 1.4 to 7.1).
(16) Penile intraepithelial neoplasia was significantly (P less than 0.001) more common among subjects with no history of non-genital warts.
(17) Anogenital infection with HPV is multicentric; external anogenital warts and subclinical CIN lesions often exist concurrently.
(18) In benign tumours (virus wart, seborrhoeic keratosis, keratoacanthoma), there was an ordered pattern of EGFR expression.
(19) Past episodes of herpes zoster and of skin and genital warts were also associated with significantly increased HD risks.
(20) Fifteen children with anogenital warts are presented.