Nineteen healthy controls (mean age: 48.79 years, SD 12.25, 12 females) and 21 German-speaking patients (mean age: 46.62 years, SD 12.49, 17 females) with chronic pain disorder, defined as a pain-predominant multisomatoform disorder diagnosed by an experienced physician using a modified SCID-I interview, provided informed written consent and participated in the experiment.
For the present study, an elongated cell was defined as having a predominant axis length exceeding three times the maximum width of the cell.
For the purpose of this study, bacteriological confirmation of UTI was defined as a pure or predominant growth of relevant organisms at the level of 105 colony forming units (cfu) per ml [ 12].
Primary pulmonary enteric adenocarcinoma (PEAC) is defined as a pulmonary adenocarcinoma with a predominant component of intestinal differentiation and tumor cells positive for at least one intestinal marker.
Primary pulmonary enteric adenocarcinoma (PEAC) is defined as a pulmonary adenocarcinoma with a predominant component (>50 %) of intestinal differentiation and with tumor cells positive for at least one intestinal marker such as caudal-related homeobox 2 (CK20), CK20, or MUC2 [ 1].
A dedicated biotechnology firm is defined as a biotechnology active firm whose predominant activity involves the application of biotechnology techniques to produce goods or services and/or the performance of biotechnology R&D.
If a sample contained more than two alleles, it was defined as a mixed infection and the predominant allele or alleles for each marker were chosen for identifying the MLG, with predominance being based on peak area from the Peak Scanner output as described previously in other systems [44], [45].
In February 1999, France's foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, called the U.S. a hyperpower, which he defined as "a country that is dominant or predominant in all categories... attitudes, concepts, language and modes of life".
In February 1999, drawing on the supermarché-hypermarché analogy, Hubert Vedrine, then the French foreign minister, said that he would call the United States a hyperpower, which he defined as "a country that is dominant or predominant in all categories".
Excluded are patients with predominant psychosocial factors, defined as a score of more than 130 points on the Örebrö Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (ÖMPQ) [ 51, 52].
