The majority of participants rated their health as excellent, very good or good; about 15%, however, rated their health as poor or fair (hereinafter "poor") (Table 3).
For the sake of convenience, TDP streamflows will be referred to as streamflows or flows hereinafter.
The new technologies, like compression standard Moving Picture Experts Group 4 (MPEG-4) part 10, or H.264/AVC (hereinafter called MPEG-4) and the second generation of digital terrestrial broadcasting standard (DVB-T2), provide increased capacity and ruggedness in the terrestrial transmission environment.
In this study, both RT and PCR occur in digitized volumes without prior reverse transcription or preamplification, hereinafter referred to as one-step digital RT-PCR.
The main subjects were divided into two groups: the group whose care needs level was sustained or improved (hereinafter, the SI group) and the group whose care needs level deteriorated (hereinafter, the D group).
By the year 2030, one in five women in the United States will be 65 years of age or older (hereinafter referred to as "older") [ 3].
The signal peptide is removed by signal peptidases to form the proneuropeptide or prohormone (hereinafter referred to as prohormone) [ 1, 2, 12].
Intron sliding (also called slippage or migration; hereinafter IS) can be defined as relocation of intron/exon boundaries over short distances (1-60 bases) in the course of evolution.
The regional dummy (RegiDum) is defined as 1 if the child was registered in Izumisano city, Kaizuka city, or Kumatori city (hereinafter referred to as Izumisano and Kaizuka cities), and 0 otherwise.
In this study, a total of 27 patients, admitted to Pediatrics Clinical Genetics of San Gerardo Hospital, were enrolled with a clinical diagnosis of NS or related disorder (hereinafter referred to as RAS-mutated patients).
