The conversion factors thus represent how much functioning one can get out of a good or service; in our example, how much mobility the person can get out of a bicycle.
So think about just how much functions and features do you really need from the device.
It is unclear that we can attribute the ability of eGFRcyst to refine a prediction of ESRD based on eGFRcreat simply to an improved estimate of renal function and, hence, a more accurate determination of how much renal function must be lost to reach ESRD.
Both methods require knowledge of the sensitivity of the score function, where sensitivity is defined as the smallest upper bound of how much the function can vary when one record in the input database changes (see Definition 3).
In patients with disorders of the hand and wrist it is important to examine how much the function of the hand and wrist is affected by the condition.
The objective is to compare pre- and post-PFTs of patients treated with CyberKnife for lung cancer and ascertain how much lung function is preserved after the treatment.
Although it is still unclear how much this function contributes to erythropoiesis in vivo, increasing evidence is accumulating on the role of "nurse" macrophage in iron trafficking towards the maturing erythroblasts [ 22].
Formally, this is done using matrix-wise derivatives, which is a somewhat complex mathematical concept measuring by how much a function of a matrix will change when the matrix is changed.
Besides that, it would also be useful to know how much the functioning of the physical frailty indicators would have to decrease before disability starts to develop in elderly people.
I asked Nick to estimate how much less lung function he had than the other team members, and he said 15%.
