Many serum and tumor markers have been identified but none has provided a significant improvement over tumor stage as a prognostic indicator for cancer recurrence for patients with stage II or III disease.
170, 215 Similar time-trend biases have been observed for the incidence of primary liver cancer 203 and advanced stages of lung cancer, the latter leading to an apparent improvement over time in stage-specific prognosis.
Our previously published data demonstrates that there was no significant improvement over the observation period (stage 1) but following the diet (stage 2) there was significant improvement in weight, BMI, ICP, papilloedema, visual acuity, headache disability (HIT-6) as well as headache severity and frequency (Table 2).
Babies have this desire, and animals, but we gradually progress through various mind-body stages of improvement over the course of a life dedicated to improvement.
However, the plant that received high rates as well as low rates at 20 and 40 tons/ha of filter cake gradually showed good improvement over the control at a late stage of the plant.
A composite that is restricted to cognitive items in an MCI stage would offer improvement over standard clinical outcomes and would offer the simplicity of measuring a single domain of progression.
Whether Ms. Woolcock's staging represents an improvement over Mr. Sellars's work is open to question.
Setting the STFT frame size at 2048 and applying BSS to the beamformed signals, we get an average output SIR of the combined method of SIROUT = 16.3 dB, a 19.1 dB improvement over the input: 6.1 dB improvement at the beamforming stage, and 13 dB further improvement at the BSS stage.
In general, to say that a step from stage \(A\) to stage \(B\) constitutes progress means that \(B\) is an improvement over \(A\) in some respect, i.e., \(B\) is better than \(A\) relative to some standards or criteria.
