Julia Heidemann, a government spokeswoman, said President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was determined to persist in improving tax collection.
Considering these discrepancies between the model and its use, we suggest that, instead of persisting in improving incrementally each term of the balance-sheet method, we should switch to the innovative design of a completely new fertilizer calculation method, where users are taken into account from the beginning of the design process.
Five years after the integration of the hepatitis B vaccine in their EPI, vaccination programmes must persist in improving vaccination coverage.
In the evaluation of acupuncture compared with other treatments, acupuncture had a therapeutic benefit in improving global symptoms (RR of symptoms persisting with acupuncture = 0.56, 95% CI 0.42 0.77).
Despite achievements in the second half of the 20th Century in improving life expectancy and child survival, inequities in health have persisted and in some cases have even widened [ 6].
Their lack of practice in fathoming the meaning of text leaves them reluctant to persist with improving their reading skills (Stanovich [1986]).
As to the evolution of body fat abnormalities, evidence has been gathered that once body changes become clinically evident, they generally tend to persist, improving only in a minority of cases [ 9].
In these children, ischemia increased or persisted in three and improved in four.
Powles and colleagues [ 1] are to be congratulated for taking the paradigm of adjuvant therapy one step further in that, by administering 2 years' therapy with an oral bisphosphonate, they attempted to change the environment in which bone micrometastases persist in order to improve patients' outcome.
121, 130, 131 Increased use of liver resection has played some part in these improving outcomes, but wide variations in its use persist.
In addition, by institutionalising cooperation between the European Union and Mexico, especially on human rights issues, social affairs and the fight against poverty, an instrument is being created which could be extremely useful for reducing the social inequalities which persist in Mexico and for improving the living conditions of the less advantaged strata of the population.
