5 Distorted gustatory function in older age may also be influenced by disease, functional and cognitive impairment, depression, or polypharmacy, which have all been documented as significant but underestimated contributors to taste disorders in the elderly.
In summary, patients with advanced NSCLC have distorted circadian function independent of their PS.
What little is known confirms the preclinical data that links distorted circadian function with accelerated tumour progression.
Within Iran, sanctions radicalise the extreme groups further and, by distorting the functioning of the markets, encourage economic manipulations that largely benefit those radical groups that are close to the regime.
These responses distort the functioning of the economy, often reducing potential growth and the economy's ability to provide a high standard of living to all.The supply-side tax revolutions of earlier eras prompted a wave of studies looking at the effect of lower taxes.
Third, the state distorts the functioning of the private sector.
A dysfunction or pathology of one of the elements distorts the functioning of the remaining elements, and leads to insufficiency and consequent compensatory changes.
The alignment of different magnifications of each nucleus to each other was performed in Adobe Photoshop using the rotate, resize, warp and distort functions.
In summary, we advocate that the measurement of the association between latent variables and covariates be systematically performed using a combination of regression models to ensure that observed associations are not distorted by differential item functioning.
This is what many feared when Berlusconi entered politics: that he would use his vast power as the country's richest man to distort the function of government — to, in effect, bribe a public servant into serving Berlusconi instead of the public.
The convex and concave distorted physical distribution functions then sandwich the risk neutral distribution of the S&P 500 index.
