The authors believe this examination might not be appropriate as an evaluation tool of GERD in patients with severe esophageal motor dysfunction like advanced SSc patients.
Consequently, the appropriation of the procedure not only will be useful for its application as a monitoring and evaluation tool of effectiveness of novice physician's training programs in ultrasonography, but also as a practical device in diagnosis schemes.
The designed neural structures assure a faster evaluation tool of the sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic nervous system control of the cardiovascular function.
Development of an evaluation tool of psychosocial constructs for use by participants in 2 federal programs, Food Stamp Nutrition Education and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS; J Marriage Fam 38 (1976 15 288) is regarded as the most used evaluation tool of marital adjustment.
Also, proposes an evaluation tool of the degree to which any policy, action, process, or condition are in the public interest.
The capabilities of Mezzo as an evaluation tool of transit operations are demonstrated with an application to a real-world high-demand bus line in the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area under various scenarios.
Nevertheless, and despite the evident similarities between the two approaches, an integrated evaluation tool of a station area in terms of its transportation, land use, and urban design features is missing.
Additionally, the CRED criteria are applied in the Literature Evaluation Tool of the Joint Research Centre (R. Carvalho, JRC, EU Commission, Ispra, Italy, personal communication), as well as in the reliability evaluation of ecotoxicity studies for data bases, such as the NORMAN EMPODAT (P. von der Ohe, Umweltbundesamt, Dessau, Germany, personal communication).
De Ryck's behavioral test was conducted daily during the 7-day intervention as an evaluation tool of motor recovery.
