Effects of artificial change of chest wall compliance depend on PEEP level and the patient's pathophysiological characteristics: in patients with low IAP values, SB positioning could decrease the regional compliance of upper thorax and favor a caudal displacement of the diaphragm, increasing the ventilation distribution to the abdominal compartment.
Appearing before the House of Commons justice select committee, Gove confirmed he had no intention of introducing "artificial" changes to sentencing policy to reduce the record 85,000 prison population in England and Wales.
Artificial changes in or of the course of the rivers shall not affect the location of the boundary unless otherwise agreed.
This subject will be further detailed in the agreements to be signed between Jordan and the authorities or companies selected by Israel. 1. Artificial changes in or of the course of the Jordan and Yarmouk Rivers can only be made by mutual agreement.
Alternatively, changes in the numbers of sentinel sites or in health seeking behavior may trigger artificial changes in specimen numbers.
Of those subjects, 11 were excluded because they had lumbar puncture procedures within <10 days prior to their MRI (a protocol violation), which may have induced artificial volume changes of the brain.
The artificial change in the number of attractive females due to the birth control policy is likely to have influenced the course of the mating season by artificially decreasing female mating synchrony.
A device that simultaneously measures the dimensional changes of artificial graphite due to thermal expansion by two methods, contact and non-contact, has been developed.
Moreover, artificial pH and salt changes of rat urine samples did not relevantly affect measurement accuracy, thereby showing that exact measurements after only a simple buffering step are feasible.
After test removal, cells were washed with several changes of sterile artificial seawater (Instant Ocean, Blacksburg, VA) and incubated for 2 days, in order to allow the cells to digest recently consumed prey.
