Tensile tests were performed at the maximum service temperature on aged samples in two material directions to evaluate the progression of stiffness and Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS) degradation.
Hypergeometric tests were performed in both directions, to evaluate (1) whether recently evolved enhancers are significantly more likely to occur in the regulatory domains of PSGs in each species and (2) whether recently evolved PSGs are more likely to harbor (at least one) recently evolved enhancer(s) than other genes.
Further DW sequences and matching high-resolution T2 images (voxel size 0.6 × 0.6 × 2 mm, FOV of 220, repetition time 6470 ms; echo time 105 ms) were aligned with the hippocampus and positioned perpendicular to the hippocampal coronal sequences with differing phase-encoding directions to evaluate the medial temporal lobes with reduced artifacts.
In addition, the means and standard deviations were computed for each X-, Y-, and Z-coordinate direction to evaluate which direction of the discrepancy contributed to the degree of overall discrepancies (Fig. 2).
Finally, a sensitivity analysis was performed varying the incoming wind direction to evaluate the effect of the lift forces on the structural response.
A multidisciplinary team for nurse case management, integrating expertise of physicians, radiologists, case managers, nurses, nutritionists, physical therapists, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, social workers, home health care nurses, and hospice nursing specialists, met periodically to discuss treatment direction, to evaluate therapeutic effects, and to provide further recommendations.
The Institute of Medicine evaluation schema proved to give direction and focus to evaluating a surrogate marker.
The Institute of Medicine evaluation schema has been proven to give direction and focus to evaluating a surrogate marker.
The position of the core, which was set initially at the center of the sphere, is displaced by a distance, d (1 to 5 nm in steps of 1 nm) in the X, Y, and Z directions, respectively, to evaluate how the eccentricity affects the optical response in the far and near fields.
A future direction is to evaluate the network performance with a channel that experiences large-scale fading, where the distance between nodes (or the intruder) becomes an important factor in network behavior.
One step in this direction is to evaluate whether evolution on part of the host (bimodal egg color distribution) can give rise to corresponding adaptive peaks for cuckoo egg appearance [16], [48].
