Women whose partner smoked had an additional antenatal test for cotinine (ABS Laboratories), a metabolite of nicotine, as an indicator of passive smoking.
Studies conducted in the United States and Europe have detected cotinine in urine as an indicator of passive smoking in > 80% of the nonsmoking populations (Pirkle et al. 1996; Riboli et al. 1990; reviewed by Jaakkola 2000).
Our results in the current study support these previous findings, suggesting that serum GGT levels in calves can be used as a qualitative indicator for adequate transfer of passive immunity.
However, the analyses were adjusted for some indicators of indoor air quality (passive smoking, time of air refreshing, traffic near home, socioeconomic factors).
In these posts, I expect to explore the importance of passive ownership, performance indicators, cash flow, developing a niche business and hiring and developing employees.
A negative GT can be used as a semiquantitative indicator of hypogammaglobulinemia caused by failure of passive transfer of colostrum in neonatal foals [ 2, 7, 36, 8, 21, 15, 4], calves [ 43, 18, 22, 19, 44, 42], kids [ 45, 41], and zoo ruminants [ 34, 5, 14].
The surrogate model is trained by modeling experiments with EnergyPlus and R, which can provide reliable energy performance indicators of generic building models featuring passive design parameters including the building layout, envelope thermophysics, building geometry and infiltration & air-tightness.
The intervention effect persisted when dietary fat quality, dietary fiber intake, BMI, waist circumference, physical activity, cotinine (an indicator of smoking and passive smoking exposure), and pubertal status were included in the analyses, indicating that other factors may also be mediating the effect.
In a recent editorial in Critical Care, Monnet and Teboul emphasize the value of passive leg raising (PLR) as a reliable bedside indicator of fluid responsiveness in critically ill patients [ 1].
The faceless crowd of passive souls disappeared.
Next from me: Pitfalls of passive construction.
