Molecular genetics have characterized the cause of many rare diseases and provide unprecedented opportunities for identifying patients, determining phenotypes, and devising treatments to prevent, stabilize, or improve each disease.
Prior research has characterized the cause of many of these errors as being due to failure to completely search the area where targets may be present; indeed, roughly one-third of chest nodules missed in lung cancer screening are never fixated (Drew, Võ, Olwal, Jacobson, Seltzer and Wolfe, Journal of Vision 13 3, 2013).
Also, when lack of adequate information on the decedent's disease history, the more narrowly characterized the cause of death on the certificate, the more likely it is to be in error.
The aim of the study was to characterize the causes of operating room (OR) fires in otolaryngology.
We sought to characterize the causes of periviable birth and to determine whether periviable birth can be predicted by previous pregnancy outcome.
The fundamental assumptions of statistical mechanics imply that this independence will hold in a large class of cases given a judicious choice of quantities characterizing the causes and effects.
The proposed multitechnical damage assessment methodology was used to characterize the causes of damage, design reinforcement actions, and carry out subsequent monitoring to guarantee the structural stability of the building.
Obama administration officials declined to characterize the causes of these gaping disparities in price, leaving unclear whether they reflect some form of malevolence -- profiteering by some institutions or price-rigging -- or rather more nebulous factors, such as varying estimates about the underlying costs of providing services.
These studies will provide useful complementary data to the PERCH study that will more fully define and characterize the causes of childhood pneumonia throughout the world.
