Specifically, even after adjustment for conventional confounders and mediators of the insulin resistance mortality relationship, further adjustment for cystatin C based eGFR markedly attenuated observed magnitudes of association, and the degree of attenuation by eGFR exceeded that for any other covariate.
It is important that, by using a similar experimental approach in humans, we previously showed that RA patients have attenuated endothelium-dependent responses in the skin microcirculation, and that the degree of attenuation is related to the expression of systemic inflammatory cytokines [ 8], findings that are similar to those in the present study.
However, even powerful signals suffer some degree of attenuation as they pass through the transmission medium.
The degree of attenuation over distance varies according to the wavelength of the light and to the composition of the fiber.
However, while these vaccines stimulate immunity, challenged animals rarely clear the viral infection and the degree of attenuation directly correlates with protection from disease.
For harmonic loading, an apparent damping coefficient is derived to compare the degree of attenuation achieved in the wholly elastic NMS to an "equivalent" conventionally damped structure.
Such treatment needs to be selected for the particular application regarding frequency of the generated noise and the degree of attenuation required.
The degree of attenuation was monotonic with increased DBS voltages in both locations, but this voltage-dependent effect was greater in the central STN than dorsal to the STN (p < 0.05).
A similar degree of attenuation of ECTV has been recently reported after deletion of the gene encoding a viral homologue of the cellular tumour necrosis factor receptor, named cytokine response modifier D (CrmD), that inhibits TNF but also a set of chemokines through a unique chemokine binding domain, named smallpox virus-encoded chemokine binding (SECRET) domain34.
For in situ monitoring of the treatment site during a procedure, the degree of attenuation of microbubble motions after exposing the microbubbles to pHIFU was monitored, using ultrafast echographic imaging.
We have investigated this effect by examining the BER transmission performance of a WDM channel as a function of the degree of attenuation of another WDM wavelength signal during fast wavelength switching events.
