There is no exact way to measure the decline of holiday cards.
Separating the evaluation of an instrument in its ability to measure the decline in Alzheimer's disease over time (sensitivity) from the ability of a treatment to affect the decline over time (percentage placebo effect size) clarifies the discussion of power, efficiency and sample size.
Apart from the "hard" endpoint of dialysis onset, we used an estimation of GFR to measure the decline in renal function; creatinine-based estimations (Cockcroft-Gault, MDRD) are known to underestimate GFR decline in diabetes [ 44], especially in patients with mild to moderate renal impairment [ 32].
Because Ford recently went through a recapitalization, measuring the decline in earnings estimates cannot be easily done, said Chuck Hill, the director of research at First Call.
In addition to the successional age of dung pats we measured the decline of dung moisture.
We examined the complexation of copper by fulvic acid (FA), one of the major components of DOM, by measuring the decline in labile copper by anodic stripping voltammetrically (ASV).
Pastor Karl Cruz, of Victory Outreach church in Sylmar, measures the decline in killings a different way.
Someday, some historian may use those very words in the mouths of American presidents and other politicians (and their claims, for instance, that the U.S. military was "the finest fighting force that the world has ever known") as a set of increasingly defensive markers for measuring the decline of American power.
We also measured the decline in absorbance of methylene blue (MB) which is routinely used for measuring O2 depletion [6], [38] to confirm O2 depletion by AA.
Devereux et al [9] measured the decline of detectability of protease (PR) and reverse transcriptase (RT) resistance associated mutations in patients stopping therapy for varying durations of time.
