Sentence examples for benign settings from inspiring English sources

These compact, benign settings avoid the physical stigmata of institutional life and accord some autonomy of movement and intimacy in relations with staff.

Noting that the therapeutic value of hospitals is related to their physical, social and symbolic design, this paper argues that 'expert' knowledges have encouraged the development of hospitals that all-too-rarely provide benign settings for promoting patient recovery and healing.

In the benign versus cancer settings both groups also improve, but only the less experienced readers significantly (AUC from 0.79 to 0.89).

In both evaluation settings (benign vs. cancer and indolent vs. aggressive) the area under the ROC curve increased significantly (0.81 to 0.88, p = 0.013 and 0.78 to 0.87, p = 0.001, respectively).

First, the logistic regression procedure showed that including the CAD system likelihood in addition to the radiologist PIRADS score resulted in a model with significantly improved predictive power (p < 0.001, likelihood ratio test) for both evaluation settings (benign vs. cancer and indolent vs. aggressive).

Directors in their cleverness, said Dr. Arthur Freeman, a professor of psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, like to spring surprises on characters around a pool because audiences view the settings as benign.

Environmental and secondary occupational exposures to asbestos have been associated with malignant mesothelioma and benign pleural disease in several settings (Ferrante et al. 2007; Reid et al. 2008, 2009).

Despite the volatility of the currency issue, the language in the concluding statement of the I.M.F.'s policy-setting committee was benign.

As a result, the use of esophageal stents has been expanded to various benign conditions as well as to neoadjuvant settings in malignancy.

Acute and transient psychoses share many clinical features in common with schizophrenia and would at many times and in many settings have been diagnosed as benign prognosis schizophrenia.

In the ED settings it is important to distinct between benign and possibly life-threatening headache and to give a specific acute pharmacological treatment (especially for migraine), and not to waste time seeking for diagnostic criteria of benign headache subtypes.