Professor Olshansky agreed that the group was now smaller, but said the magnitude of the drop in life expectancy was still a measure of deterioration.
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) is an index to be inspected when the kidneys are working normally, and increases in BUN values are a measure of deterioration of the kidney function [17].
Therefore, API can be calculated by Tables 1 and 2. PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio) is used as a measure of deterioration of recovered image and is also used for evaluating the influence of embedded data sequence on privacy-protected image.
Surrogate measures of physiological deterioration include ICU transfers and cardiorespiratory arrests, and some authors also include the calls to the rapid response team.
The mass loss proved as the most effective measure of the deterioration level.
After the emergency occurs, the agents of individuals with supportive or nonsupportive behavior toward the government is a key to the measure of the deterioration of events, so this proportion is one of significant aspects of emergency situations that governments need to pay attention to.
The progressive nature of the disease, as well as measuring the rate of deterioration, has presented an ongoing challenge to clinicians and scientists alike.
The relative permittivity of concrete measured based on the surface reflection method (Maser and Scullion 1991), and is directly used as a measure of the severity of deterioration in the top surface of the concrete bridge deck.
The primary outcome was the patient's daily functioning measured with the Interview of Deterioration in Daily activities in Dementia and the Perceive, Recall, Plan and Perform System of Task Analysis.
The number of patients who had reported worsening was too small to perform an analysis comparing the ability of the 2 measures to detect deterioration.
Thus, the degree of deterioration of oils can be determined by measuring their water content using Karl Fischer volumetric titration analysis [31].
