It is our contention that many of the commonly used comorbidity indices, such as the ICED, CIRS, and KFI have failed to achieve widespread use because they remain complicated, cumbersome to use, and poorly accessible for use in clinical research.
This contention was supported by the annual Lemelson-M.I.T. Invention Index, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey, which found that the modern invention adults hate most but cannot do without is the cellphone.
They also noticed that the plasma level of PAI-1 depends more on body mass index than on PAI-1 promoter variations, a contention we could not confirm in the present study.
where is an index on the beacon interval and is the minimum contention window used in the th beacon interval.
Though, in our study we did not measure any index of inflammatory activity and we could not verify such contention.
Figures such as these back up our contention that you are unlikely to get very far, for very long, by tracking an index such as the Footsie.
Resources under severe contention as transit-related and man-power related tasks are identified based on the WPP index.
This contention is reinforced by previous analysis of stand density trials covering a wide range in Site Index.
The problem is that the EVP requires a single index of value in accordance with which gambles can be compared, whereas Golding's contention that the value of the good relationship with God is different in kind from other values seems to suggest the incommensurability of two different indices.
In answer to Shaprio's appeals, the DoJ has supported the FBI's contention to Shapiro and others that only one of ACS's three search functions, the Universal Name Index (Uni), is necessary to fulfill the law.
