An enlarged spleen is a marker for an increased level of host inflammatory response to bacterial infection [42], [43], [44], Splenomegaly develops in tuberculosis infection [34], [45].
Like food banks, in-work tax credits are a marker for an economically dysfunctional system.
Putin has laid down a marker for an armistice, talks on autonomy, one that is bound to look like a victory for him.
In the end, it appeared Stitzer was merely discussing the level at which previous deals in the industry had succeeded, rather than laying down a marker for an acceptable bid price for Cadbury.
It is also intended to lay down a marker for an audience at home, the United States Senate, which will soon debate a climate-change bill that the White House strongly opposes.
Their generation of elite blacks, born into the thicket of Victorian expectations, had to contend with claims, issued with scientific certainty, that however acculturated they were, their color was a visible marker for an inherent and prurient savagery.
And they all contained a higher-than-terrestrial proportion of the oxygen-17 isotope, a clear marker for an origin in red giants, exhausted stars that lost their outer atmospheres to the cosmos.
Infants with normal fidgety movements at 3 to 5 months after term are very likely to show neurologically normal development, while the absence of fidgety movements is an early marker for an adverse neurological outcome, mainly cerebral palsy (CP).
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A small P300 component of the auditory event-related potential has been found to predict poor clinical outcome with a higher amount of thought disorders in schizophrenia and has been proposed as a marker for an underlying neurodevelopmental disorder with prominent thought disorders, early age of onset, prominent negative symptoms and positive family history.
Podsiadlo and Richardson (1991) found that this timed measure was a risk marker for an older adult's ability to go safely outside alone.
