(1) The authors discuss the treatment of recurrent dislocation of the shoulder joint in a synthetic review of methods so far proposed and tried out; the they offer a critical description of the method currently representing the best one available according to their experience made at Milan's Istituto Ortopedico G. Pini.
(2) Healthy children are identified by a PINI value less than 1 whereas sick patients are characterized by a progressive rise above 1 as the conditions worsens.
(3) CRP, orosomucoid, albumin and prealbumin are considered the most valuable indicators; from their values the so-called PINI index can be calculated and the patients can be divided into five prognostic zones.
(4) We consider that the PINI index is useful as a predictive and evolutive parameter, and it can be used in children with a chronic illness.
(5) This study compared the efficacy of the PINI versus its individual determinants as potential prognostic indicators of infection or death in patients with burns.
(6) We have used the index proposed by Ingenbleek (PINI = prognostic inflammatory and nutritional index) in which nutritional scoreboards and biochemical inflammatories correlate.
(7) The patterns of correlation between PINI items and GRASP and Medicus scores indicated that these two classification systems do not measure nursing resource use in the same way.
(8) The psychometric assessment of a new measure of nursing intensity, The Patient Intensity for Nursing Index (PINI) is reported.
(9) The results of these measurements were used to calculate the prognostic inflammatory and nutritional index (PINI).
(10) PINI scores were significantly related to medical severity of illness, length of hospital stay, disposition at discharge, number of secondary medical diagnoses and specialty consults, and scores on three different hospital classification systems used for staffing.
(11) In one line they evolved into single-pored species such as R. pollinis-pini, then to Chytridium and tendochytrium-like chytrids and to polycentric chytrids such as Nowakowskiella and Cladochytrium.
(12) The clinical impression shows that the classification by groups of risk obtained according to the value of the PINI is very near to reality.
(13) Dosthistromin, an anthraquinone derivative produced by the pine-blight fungus, Dothistroma pini, inhibits the growth of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Bacillus megaterium.
(14) The Prognostic Inflammatory and Nutritional Index (PINI = [alpha 1-acid glycoprotein x C-reactive protein] divided by [albumin x prealbumin]) has been proposed as a means of predicting morbidity or mortality in hospitalized patients.
(15) He should go to Chelsea, and demand £150k a week - Speaking of Chelsea, he’d just had a call from super agent Pini Zavi (spelling, sorry, we all know who he means!)
(16) Dothistromin is a metabolite produced by Dothistromin pini and Cercospora arachidicola.
(17) The authors review the cases of Ledderhose's disease come to their observation at the "Gaetano Pini" Orthopedic Clinic of Milan.
(18) The PINI was positively correlated with CRP concentration (r = 0.72, p = 0.0001) and negatively correlated with PA concentration (r = 0.56, p = 0.0004 and nitrogen balance (r = -0.51, p = 0.0018).
(19) "It's incredibly significant to have a prime minister powerfully state that she has experienced sexism and even more powerfully state that she will refuse to ignore it any longer," Pini said.
(20) The PINI value correlated positively with the burn area given in per cent (for day 5 of follow-up, the regression line equation was y = 9.346 + 1.65 x).
Puny
Definition:
(superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.
(n.) A youth; a novice.
Example Sentences:
(1) She puts much of the ongoing disaster down to what she calls "a severe case of management capture", the puny powers possessed by the Co-op's members to hold anyone at the top to account, and its hopelessly complicated structure.
(2) He was so puny, not like the macho pictures you see of him riding a horse bareback, or fishing barechested," she said.
(3) When they first encounter their "admirer and pupil Zola" he strikes them as a "worn-out Normalien, at once sturdy and puny" but with "a vibrant note of pungent determination and furious energy".
(4) Then again, this is the Labour party we are talking about, and the policies supposed to lead us there are, so far, distinctly puny.
(5) As for forcing people to move, the new tax would be puny compared with the rates.
(6) Ministers keep boasting of the puny £100m transitional fund, supposed to tide charities over, but to what?
(7) (I say they, not we, because the Guardian is always a puny counterweight to these massed ranks on the right).
(8) Roosevelt's programme to rebuild war-torn Europe cost around 5% of US GDP – the lofty comparison only underlines the puniness of the euro version and elicits a snort of derision from newsrooms and trading floors across Europe.
(9) Abbott said the declaration of a caliphate showed that “Islamic State wants to emulate Mohammed whose early campaigns would have looked just as puny to the great powers of his day”.
(10) Those powers are puny compared to the ones they have willingly given away.
(11) When the American Film Institute bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award upon Lean in 1990 (he made the trip to LA despite failing health), Spielberg paid tribute from the stage, saying of Lawrence...: 'It made me feel puny.
(12) Such abilities could transform our puny electronic equipment into a new generation of micro-scale devices.
(13) In ways that are measurable on a daily basis the post of mayor, directly accountable to the electorate, has improved the quality of life for Londoners, even if in its early phase it had puny powers and deserves more now.
(14) Donald Trump barely capable of squeezing wealth on to puny official form On Wednesday afternoon, Donald Trump announced that he had filed a personal financial disclosure with the Federal Election Commission, the last step needed to secure his presence on stage in the first Republican presidential debate in Cleveland on 6 August.
(15) Completely untroubled by United's puny attacking efforts after the opening 15 minutes, Barcelona kept swarming forward.
(16) But in 1908 their fortunes were on the up: Sydney had just got Charlie his break with the famous Fred Karno company and despite the impressario’s doubts about the “pale, puny, sullen-looking youngster”, he was an instant hit with audiences.
(17) So, too, have regional broadcasters whose vast workforces can dwarf their puny audience shares.
(18) The team's puny total of 15 Premier League goals should alarm City [West Brom and Blackpool have both scored more] and in the long term there must be an increased verve if they are to grasp some silverware.
(19) They have resorted to denial and to aligning themselves with the puny flag-waving of the Europhobes, who were out in force in this week's rebellion against David Cameron , hardly an arch federast.
(20) It had lost most of its territory in France and, in comparison to bold and dynamic Spain, was decidedly puny.