Sentence examples for degree of descent from inspiring English sources

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, established under a 1978 amendment to the state constitution, administers various funds for the "betterment" of Native Hawaiians, defined as those with 50percentt Hawaiian ancestry, and Hawaiians, defined as those with any degree of descent from the original residents.

Any degree of descent ≥ stage 2 observed at a follow-up visit was considered a postoperative failure.

Twelve months after surgery the degree of descent of the inframammary fold generally parallels that of the nipple.

The degree of descent of each testicle was categorized as follows: 0 = normal, 1 = normal retractile, 2 = high scrotal, 3 = suprascrotal, 4 = inguinal, and 5 = nonpalpable or ectopic.

Y is the midpoint between the tip of the acromion and the lateral epicondyle minus 1 cm After 6 and 12 months postsurgery, the degree of descent of the IMF generally parallels that of the nipple (Table  2).

As such, if we were to let the initial state be the set of directly combined axial scans S c = S, the TTV reconstructed 3D volumetric image S c at iteration t + 1 of the optimization process can be written as (6) S c t + 1 = S c t + q Δ S t, where Δ S t is the discretization of ∂ S ∂ t in Eq. 5, and q controls the degree of descent.

Moreover, Pascual et al. found that headache correlated with the degree of tonsillar descent [30], although this was not supported by the findings of Sansur et al. They also did not find a craniospinal pressure dissociation and postulated that headache was associated with a sudden increase of intracranial pressure, caused by obstruction of free CSF flow in the subarachnoid space [29].

In the 2000 Census, 9.2 million Americans self-reported some degree of Scottish descent.

Degree of testicular descent was associated with AGD (R = 0.20, p = 0.02).

Although anogenital distance (AGD) has rarely been used as a measure of androgen action in humans, our data suggest that shortened AGD reflects reduced androgen action in utero; AGD was correlated with the degree of testicular descent and penile volume, and children with smaller AGD tended to have smaller scrotums; these are all signs of reduced androgen action.

Although none of the 134 boys examined showed frank malformations or disease, and 86.6% of these boys had both testicles classified as normal, AGI was significantly correlated with degree of testicular descent as well as penile volume and scrotal size (Swan et al. 2005).