It appears above and may be a precise fixing of one duration ("♩ = 120 MM" means that the quarter note lasts 1/120 of a minute, or one-half second), or it may be an approximate verbal indication setting tempo by reference to accepted conventions (allegro, or quickly; moderato, or moderate speed; etc).. Staff notation is well adapted to two fundamental aspects of Western music: harmony and rhythm.
A pain problem severity index describing the severity of pain problems and varying from 0 to 37 was calculated by adding the following scores: a sum of pain sites (0 10), pain duration (0 9), mean of two pain intensity measures (0 9) and pain frequency (0 9).
By means of nine variables (age at diagnosis, duration of diabetes, sex, ethnicity, smoking status, systolic blood pressure, HbA1c, total cholesterol, and HDL-cholesterol) the risk to develop CVD will be estimated with the UKPDS risk engine [ 44].
Seizure severity was evaluated by means of two parameters, i.e., (1) duration of tonic hindlimb extensor phase and (2) mortality due to convulsions.
In particular, it should be noted that the majority of isolates studied (46) were from severe typhoid cases with a history of fever for a mean duration of nine days prior to admission to hospital, requiring hospitalization for a mean length of seven days and treatment with IV antibiotics.
In large ships (three carriers and one amphibious assault ship), the cumulative AR was 3.7% with a mean duration of 3.8 weeks compared to the smaller ships with cumulative AR of 3.6% and a mean duration of five weeks (data not shown).
We analyzed the number of calls, mean duration of one call, latency to start calling and peak frequency of each call.
All of them had documented infection for at least three years, with a mean duration of four years.
Twenty-one (22.3%) patients died at a mean duration of two days, and 73 (77.7%) patients survived to discharge.
Our study showed a high proportion of children achieving virological suppression with a mean duration of two years of ART.
Patients were admitted for evaluation of fever when they had fever over a mean duration of two months.
