Sentence examples for a focal process from inspiring English sources

Participants were assigned to antitubercular therapy if clinicians identified a focal process compatible with tuberculosis either on physical examination or radiographic imaging using modifications of previously validated case definitions [9].

The 19 participants with confirmed tuberculosis that was not diagnosed during the initial clinical evaluation had a median CRP quotient of 7.0 (IQR 2.4 16.2) compared to the median CRP quotient of 15.9 (IQR 9.4 24.5) in the 116 participants diagnosed with a focal process (p = 0.0003).

Motor phenotypes of ALS indicate that underlying motor neuron degeneration is a focal process that progresses contiguously along neuronal anatomy (25).

Early MRI findings of HO should be differentiated from the following: (a) Muscle necrosis is usually a focal process that has been associated with diabetes and alcoholism.

In the early stages of OA - bearing in mind that OA is initially a focal process - not all chondrocytes will be at the same stage of differentiation.

Diffuse adaptive thickening of the carotid wall reflects arteriosclerosis, responding to aging and hypertension, while plaque formation is a focal process, and is more related to atherosclerotic processes, such as inflammation, oxidation, and endothelial dysfunction, 25, 26 which may be more strongly associated with the pathology of CAD.

The exception was that all children had abnormal MRI scans at the oculomotor midbrain exit, suggesting a focal pathologic process.

Of the 135 participants diagnosed with confirmed tuberculosis 116 (86%) were diagnosed with a focal disease process consistent with tuberculosis: 36 had pulmonary disease; 33 had both pulmonary and extrapulmonary disease; and 47 had extrapulmonary disease.

We investigate the focal process of the 2011 megathrust earthquake by comparing it with the greatest earthquakes which are known to have occurred in the world, considering characteristics such as earthquake activity, focal mechanisms, rupture patterns, geometry of subduction zones, types of overriding plates, and back-arc activity.

Moreover, the Wickens (2002) model proposes that focal processes are specialized for detailed object perception and recognition, whereas ambient processes are specialized for spatial processing.

The reason is that these 'uninformative' polymorphisms lack the adequate potential to capture signatures of drift and hitchhiking, the focal processes in ecological genome scans.