Even though palpation can be easily implemented in routine physical examination, the value of this method as opposed to imaging appears limited due to its considerable learning curve and only moderate agreement between different observers, even after substantial training [25, 26].
As a noninvasive examination, the value of cerebral CTA in diagnosis of intracranial aneurysm is widely accepted by clinic, owing to its features of being noninvasive, simple, rapid, and accurate.
At the 5 Hz examinations, the values of CPTs were significantly higher in the chronic stage than in the acute stage on the painful side of classical TN (26.67 ± 18.65 vs. 11.62 ± 6.99, P = 0.000).
At the 5 Hz examinations, the values of CPTs on the painful side were significantly lower in the acute stage (11.62 ± 6.99 vs. 18.69 ± 9.66, P = 0.025), but they became significantly higher (26.67 ± 18.65 vs. 19.69 ± 13.70, P = 0.010) than those on the contralateral side in the chronic stage.
This enables the exploration of the cluster structure of the data through the examination of the values of the encoding coefficients and therefore, NMF is often used as a popular tool for clustering analysis.
This is the topic of Foer's fascinating and gripping new book, World Without Mind; at its core, it is an intensive examination of the values of the Valley, which he views as a threat not just to old media but to republican values, liberal democracy, and Enlightenment thinking itself.
Examination of the values of DW related to Modification 1 revealed that they were relatively close to zero in all cases; hence, the assumption of non-autocorrelation of errors e was not satisfied.
When charities drop their standards and lose their capacity for self-examination, they traduce the values of the people who donate money to them.
Kater's examination of the value of music for the regime and the degree to which the regime attained a positive propaganda and palliative effect through the manner in which it manipulated its musicians, and by extension, German music, is of importance for understanding culture in totalitarian systems.
The purposes of this study were (i) to see if an indirect method of design (paper patients) could be developed for study of change affected by radiographs on diagnostic outcome and planned treatment of periodontal patients and (ii) to investigate the effect of the nature of clinical examination on the value of radiographs in reaching a periodontal diagnosis.
