Take this example from a recent op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News about a bill (SB 1010) aimed at prescription drug prices: "If government bureaucrats proceed with such shortsighted measures, severely-ill patients like Corey Wood will never reach the finish line in their battle against cancer and other deadly conditions".
The measure severely restricts abortion to cases of likely death of the woman, "serious permanent impairment of the physical health of the woman" (including mental health), serious fetal deformity, cases where the woman is under sixteen, rape, and incest.
The measures have severely constricted its ability to conduct international financial transactions or to sell oil, Iran's most important export.
Such measures, which severely restrict an inmate's communications with outsiders other than lawyers or immediate family members, are used when a finding is made that there is "a substantial risk" that an inmate's communications "could result in death or serious bodily injury" to others, officials say.
The asymmetry for results from both PET and microdialysis was calculated as 1 minus the ratio of the value from the ipsilateral side to the contralateral side; normal control rats were hence expected to have an asymmetry of 0 for all measures, with severely lesioned rats likely to have asymmetries closer to 1 (maximum asymmetry).
Moreover, while d is an appropriate effect size metric for continuous measures, it severely underestimates the true effect size when it is used with dichotomized variables, that is, variables that are continuous in nature but are measured using dichotomous indices such as failure/success indices [43], [44].
For example, Kuhn and colleagues (2011) assessed cognitive control using psychometric and electrophysiological measures in severely alcohol-dependent patients who recently had undergone DBS procedures for addiction treatment and found that DBS drastically reduced addictive behavior and craving.
The important advantage that BIA has compared to DXA is the ability to measure the severely obese individuals, who are too heavy or wide to be measured by DXA, leading to exclusion from clinical research studies from which the obese individuals may benefit.
While widespread moderate malnutrition may not be obvious unless children are weighed and measured, some severely malnourished children develop clinical signs that are easily observed - severe wasting (or marasmus) and the syndrome known as kwashiorkor, with skin and hair changes and swelling of arms and legs.
