When the optic pathways are affected within the brain, the precise location of the disease can be determined by testing the pattern of visual loss affecting both eyes.
By testing the age cohort correlation of hearing loss in the COPD and control groups, we calculated the Pearson correlation coefficients of medium strength (0.56, 0.61, p value<0.001) in the COPD and control groups, respectively.
Weight loss was estimated by testing the weight changes of litchi fruits during storage, and the weight loss rate was calculated by the percentage of initial weight.
We calibrate the sigmoid loss function by testing the model on a set of cross-validation examples taken out of the training set before optimizing the model.
The remaining 15% have defective DNA mismatch repair (dMMR), which is frequently measured by either the presence of microsatellite instability (MSI) or by testing for loss of the protein products for genes involved in DNA mismatch repair, most commonly MLHI, MSH2, MSH6, and PMS2 [ 3].
Terminal anaesthesia was confirmed by testing loss of the pedal reflex.
To determine whether the increased nuclear SKN-1 levels in PRDX-2-deficient animals reflected reduced insulin signalling, we began by testing whether loss of PRDX-2 affected the release of insulin ligands.
Our ups and downs have been extreme; we have been tested by the loss of parents, the loss of a sibling, a high-risk pregnancy, financial worries, job pressures, midnight feedings, early risings and never-ending "honey-do" lists, which these days, tend to lack the "honey".
Similarly, anhedonia can be tested by the loss of preference for chocolate milk compared with water (Cairncross 1984; Jesberger and Richardson 1985; Kelly et al. 1997; Leonard and Tuite 1981; Pucilowski et al. 1993; Richardson 1991; Slotkin et al. 1999), a response that again is typical of a deficit in 5HT function (Juckel et al. 2003).
Changes in breeding bird diversity in the Netherlands between 1973 1977 and 1998 2000 were evaluated by testing three hypotheses related to the loss of biodiversity: (1) species diversity is declining, (2) biotic homogenization is increasing and (3) rare species are declining more severely than abundant species.
