To our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind because it uses ultrasound measurements as direct estimates of growth, rather than using birth weight as an indirect (and delayed) measure of growth.
Indeed, this is the approach that we regularly use because it uses an endoscope which allows direct visual inspection of the mucosa area to be biopsied during the procedure to avoid hitting on damaged tissue or any abnormal vascular structures.
The present method is termed "semi-direct" because it uses a triangulation procedure to approximately directly reconstruct as many leaves as possible that are in view of the scanner.
So far, this measure has been less controversial than the equilibrium one, because it can be studied in part using direct observations.But controversy is growing.
The pink planet is especially interesting to scientists because it is the least massive planet that has ever been detected around a star like our sun using direct imaging techniques, and because it flies in the face of traditional planet formation theories.
Even the highest region-level agreement between areas from the CYTO cytoarchitectonic parcellation and those in other atlases tended to be relatively low, which was anticipated because no other methods compared used direct analysis of cytoarchitecture as the basis for region definitions.
In part this may be because the number of studies using direct measures of neurological structure or function is small, but another reason is the heterogeneity of the disorder.
Because we use direct-wave part of the envelope to estimate location of the energy release, using Eq. (10) as envelope Green's function may cause a large error in estimation of the location.
In fact, this pitfall is uncovered in most hospitals because PNa levels are assessed by using direct ion-selective electrode for measuring PNa levels instead of indirect ion-selective electrode.
In the past decade, proteomic analysis of Leishmania promastigotes using protein kinase inhibitors and activators such as staurosporine, H7, sphingosine and TPA predicted the presence of PKC-like activity [23], [24].owever, because weakly selective PKC inhibitors were used, direct evidence of this enzyme has often been contradictory.
