Analysis included patient's characteristics, device exposures, ICU-acquired infections (microorganisms, antimicrobial resistance) and incidence ratios including ICU distributions and temporal trends (2009-2014).
Polyphonic prose, a freely rhythmical form of prose that employs characteristic devices of verse other than strict metre (such as alliteration, assonance, or rhyme).
In addition to group, multivariate regression (Cox) models will test the association between patient and device characteristics and device failure (eg, age, PIV insertion site).
Mr. Rollins opened with his most characteristic device, a buoyant calypso.
A characteristic device of Mozart, for example, is his frequent use of secondary dominants to intensify harmonic movement.
The quotation is an example of Mr. Williams's most characteristic device: the long-line stanza of six to eight stresses each; one that he uses in perhaps two-thirds of the poems.
Closely related to the soliloquy and dramatic monologue, the interior monologue was first used extensively by Édouard Dujardin in Les Lauriers sont coupés (1887; We'll to the Woods No More) and later became a characteristic device of 20th-century psychological novels.
His most characteristic device is the painted "frame within the frame," pictures where the viewer looks through a grayish stone window into a domestic interior e.g., A Poulterer's Shop (c. 1670).
Concurrently with recoding the spectra we detect characteristic device currents.
Also the choice of the source/drain isolation (a superlattice or a p+-δ-doping or a heterobarrier) affects the characteristic device behavior.
