Long-term sick leave may reflect degree of disability and complaints; however, being on sick leave may in itself contribute to prolongation of the sick leave.
For Likert scale items, the low and high values may reflect level of agreement with a statement such as "I feel stressed" or may reflect the degree of a stressed state ("none at all" to "extreme").
We conclude that in septic shock with substantial CLS plasma levels of TCC may not reflect degree of complement activation.
Finally, Lampinen notes that if response bias differs across identification procedures, then the operating points being compared may reflect different degrees of witness confidence.
This may reflect different degrees of insulin sensitivities in different ethnic groups.
This does not appear to be related to volume but may reflect varying degrees of specialization.
Alternatively, they may reflect different degrees of coupling between calcium channels and the presynaptic vesicle release complex (e.g. see Spafford & Zamponi, 2003).
The lack of any match to the reported phenotype categories may reflect difference degrees in loss of gene function due to RNAi vs. our mutant alleles, or indicate that additional gonad membrane defect categories remain to be discovered.
Some behavioural studies in idiopathic generalized epilepsies identified cognitive impairment even prior to disease onset (Hermann et al., 2012), suggesting that epilepsy and its comorbidities may reflect different degrees of disease with a shared underlying pathological condition, which may be a genetically determined neurodevelopmental dysfunction (Helmstaedter et al., 2014).
Alternatively, the higher cut point in the PAH-versus-ILD groups may reflect a degree of undiagnosed pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular compromise in the ILD group.
That may reflect a degree of political posturing, but officials in both militaries point to the maturing capabilities of Iraq's army and federal police, which now conduct day-to-day security without a great deal of direct American involvement.
