This preponderance of U.S. journals and authors can alter the scholarly landscape and distort the application of religious teachings when articles are read outside of the North American context.
From a health policy perspective, our results should be interpreted as important evidence that the real world use of a new medical technology, the ICD, is in line with the clinical evidence and that the health system is not significantly distorting the application of this effective but expensive preventive technique.
During the past few months I have been very concerned that the Second Amendment was being misused, and its historical application distorted, as an offensive shield against any effort to encourage and require only the smart and responsible ownership and use of guns in our nation.
If, after its investigation, the CDI learns that you withheld or distorted information, your application may be denied.
While the technology's current applications involved distorted faces for caricature, the same technology could be used for exceptionally realistic video.
It has been found that such common statistical characteristics get distorted by image processing applications like image compression, and a quantitative measure of this distortion can yield the relevant variations in the image quality.
In contrast, cells with mtDNA mutations showed normal responses to a single glutamate application, but the response to subsequent applications became increasingly distorted.
Multiply-distorted images, that is, distorted by different types of distortions simultaneously, are so common in real applications.
Furthermore, in many practical applications, images are distorted by noise during the acquisition or transmission process.
Cyclic voltammograms of the ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox probe on gold remained undisturbed (in the dark) after the application of the TiO2 nanolayer, but they became distorted with the drop-cast micrometric layer.
