Deurloo et al. found an underestimation in tumor extent of 23% in patients considered eligible for BCT, largely due to failure in assessing diffuse and multinodular tumors.
The coefficient of failure has several advantages in assessing β-cell failure rates: it uses rates of change, rather than absolute values; it can use other measures of glycemia besides A1C; and it allows comparisons between trials and thus meta-analyses.
But the question arises: Whatever failures there may be in assessing the causes of our attitudes and behavior, are those failures failures of introspection, properly construed?
Dr. Bocchieri is an expert in assessing failures of composite materials and a senior engineer at Applied Research Associates, an engineering firm in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The carbon-and-plastic composites used by aircraft manufacturers tend to be extremely strong and resistant to cracking, and were strenuously tested, said Dr. Robert T. Bocchieri, a senior engineer at Applied Research Associates, an engineering firm in Sunnyvale, Calif., and an expert in assessing failures of composite materials.
Actually, among widely applied empirical formulations for the characterization of composites suggested by Classification Societies rules, the ones for the interlaminar shear strength appear the most scattered because of the complexity in assessing failure phenomena.
Identifying and understanding failure mechanism will help in assessing optimal materials and guide device designs.
Hence, the analysis of cancer mortality time trends and patterns in a given population can be helpful in assessing successes, failures and future need in cancer control programs.
However, as the dentist was not blinded for the intervention group, there could be some bias in assessing the failures of restorations in the follow-up period.
The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, was more direct in assessing possible failure in Afghanistan.
