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Inherently, treating pancreatic adenocarcinoma with chemotherapy is limited by the marginal sensitivity of this tumor to available drugs and drug combinations.

The function class is applicable to any positive cost variable and is designed to be: (i) monotonically decreasing, (ii) to have decreasing marginal sensitivity with respect to cost, and (iii) to be differentiable at every point.

This may be related to an enhancement of the diminishing marginal sensitivity with increasing loss magnitude in BD subjects (i.e., that BD subjects may subjectively value the higher magnitude loss less than the healthy volunteers).

Upon pre-treatment with the PIM1 inhibitors for 2 h, we observed a minor sensitisation of the GC type but not the non-GC-type cell line to adriamycin; a marginal sensitivity to vinblastine was also observed (Supplementary Figure S2).

Saracatinib showed a growth inhibitory activity on melanoma cell lines that was comparable to dasatinib, with two cell lines showing resistance to this drug, one cell line having a marginal sensitivity and two cell lines showing moderate sensitivity.

Given the high degree of spatial correlation of annual NPP from models derived from satellite estimates of the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation and that we only used NPP to scale the spatial pattern of time-evolving NEE anomalies, the results we present have only a marginal sensitivity to specific parameterizations within the biogeochemical model.

The nine histopathologically positive groups examined immunohistochemically were confirmed positive by this method with marginal improved sensitivity of detection (2 3 more mice positive) in only three groups.

In the present analysis, this was done in two different ways: first, using three decreasing unit cost levels tied to the decrease in MV use over time (base case analysis), and second, on a day-by-day basis, directly based on the daily TISS points of each patient, thus reflecting marginal costs (sensitivity analysis) [ 9- 11].

As might be expected, the overall number of episodes that were positive for any species declined; there was only marginal improvement in sensitivity for mailed specimens (Table  2) and, conversely, a decline in sensitivity for S. aureus.

Our findings suggest that 99mTc maraciclatide offers only a marginal improvement in sensitivity over 99mTc sestamibi that did not reach significance in this study.

k-means algorithm used by fine segmentation module of the proposed technique incorrectly classifies a small number of epidermis pixels as dermis pixels, which results in the marginal drop in sensitivity.