Second, because hepcidin appears to integrate the opposing regulatory signals derived from iron deficiency and from threat of infection, it might be exploitable as an effective point-of-care index indicating "ready-and-safe to receive iron" that could guide therapeutic intervention.
The results of a good-quality nonoverlapping community detection algorithm can be used as an effective starting point for overlapping community detection [2, 3].
An important objective of the alpha test is to foster communities of expertise and establish a core NCDB user community that can serve as an effective reference point for future users of the NCDB PUF.
An underlying principle of this project is to identify patients' beliefs about self-care, and to incorporate these as an effective starting point for PBL patient education in PHC.
In a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, we found that an RDW value of 12.8% was used as an effective cut-point in the segregation of the presence or absence of cardiac syndrome X, a sensitivity of 52.0% and a specificity of 65.4% were obtained.
In order to avoid aliasing, the step size is chosen so as match the effective point spread function.
Quality early childhood development, care and education are essentials in the field of education in emergencies as early childhood is an effective entry point from which to address many social issues.
Furthermore, given that broader social policies and environments are often resistant or take a long time to change, an approach that focuses on enhancing psychological qualities such as coping flexibility may be an effective target point for decreasing socioeconomic health disparities.
Sustained manual pressure has been advocated as an effective treatment for myofascial trigger points (MTrPs).1 3 This study aimed to investigate the effect of manual pressure release (MPR) on the pressure sensitivity of latent MTrPs in the upper trapezius muscle, using a novel pressure algometer.
Ten of the housing association partners interviewed cited having an effective single point of contact as the most important factor in success.
Rather, they use as a starting point the idea of sound as a effective medium to monitor activity over time.
