Sentence examples for measures of weakness from inspiring English sources

The physical frailty phenotype by Fried and colleagues consists of measures of weakness, slowness, exhaustion, low physical activity, and what Fried and colleagues labeled "shrinking" (Fried et al. 2001).

The histopathologists' VAS was also significantly associated with measures of weakness (table 4).

There was evidence to suggest that measures of weakness were associated with biopsy scores for all of the informative items, the modified total domain scores and the histopathologists' overall severity score (table 4).

Composite measures of weaknesses and strengths were calculated for each hospital (cf. method in [ 16]).

His power was mainly a measure of weakness in others, and he was able over time to bully and buy the coöperation — the blind eye, the deaf ear, the stayed (and sometimes even the extended) hand — of any number of people who should rightfully have opposed him: public servants, cops, judges, elected officials.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between fatigue severity and subjective and objective measures of muscle weakness.

This description would establish baseline measures of strength, weakness and opportunity in the local service network that could then inform a subsequent network improvement strategy.

The amount of weakness, stiffness and interference with activities of daily living (over the past week) will be measured similarly.

We included patients who had been ventilator-dependent for more than 2 weeks and scored <48 points in the Medical Research Council (MRC) score of muscle weakness [ 9] (scale 0 60 points where 0 means most severe weakness and 60 normal muscle power, an objective measure of muscle weakness).

The correlation between Yinf and leg strength score (a global measure of muscle weakness) seems to indicate that the difficulty of the CMT1A group in maintaining quiet standing is associated with muscle weakness, rather than with the proprioceptive loss of large sensory nerve fibres whose index (vibration sense) did not correlate with Yinf.

Urban division in this case is a measure of government weakness, not ruthless strength.