Therefore, variables were selected in blocks of increasing effort to obtain during consultation: 1) socio-demographic factors and disease characteristics; 2) physical factors; 3) psychosocial work environment; 4) psychological factors; 5) physical examination.
There are two types of criteria used to determine whether a patient passes or fails a spontaneous breathing trial: objective criteria (abnormal arterial blood gas measurements) and subjective criteria (diaphoresis, evidence of increasing effort, tachycardia, agitation, anxiety).
The exercise was an unusual example of increasing efforts by business schools to educate students in the skills and knowledge most relevant to running hedge funds.
The campaign is indicative of increasing efforts by charities and nonprofit organizations to broaden their base of donors beyond their reliable current contributors, many of whom tend to be on the, er, um, old-ish side.
In spite of increasing efforts to reduce nitrogen inputs into groundwater from intensive agriculture, nitrate (NO3) remains one of the major pollutants of drinking-water resources worldwide.
The new initiative is a milestone in a series of increasing efforts to establish Germany's position among the world's leading research nations, says Max Huber, spokesman of the new GATE consortium.
In spite of increasing efforts by the authorities to qualitatively improve means of fire fighting, the wildfire scenario in Mediterranean regions has been worsening and one fears that this situation will only be further aggravated.
Facebook is emphasizing more public sharing, and attempting to become a better source of real-time information, and the addition of trends would enable it to monetize that down the road as part of increasing efforts to make money from a growing mobile user base, as well as on the web.
In recent years, the number of international students at University of Malaya has risen, a result of increasing efforts made to attract more international students.
After more than a decade of increasing efforts, however, there's little evidence that AFRICOM has the slightest idea how to tip the scales in its own favor in Africa.
Thus, in spite of increasing efforts, the structure-activity relationship (SAR) of fucoidans is still an unresolved issue.
