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Meanwhile, owing to its poor sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents, high metastatic potential, and resistance to traditional drugs, it is dismal to the overall prognosis of patients with HCC.

Gram-positive bacilli had good sensitivity to vancomycin in either group, similar to the EVS report [2], and the gram-negative bacilli had poor sensitivity to ceftazidime in either group, similar to our earlier report [1].

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most frequent pancreatic cancer type and is characterized by a dismal prognosis due to late diagnosis, local tumor invasion, frequent distant metastases and poor sensitivity to current therapy.

Because absolute steady-state StO2 has consistently revealed poor sensitivity to detect regional hypoperfusion in septic patients [12, 22, 27], we did not expect to find any differences in this parameter between treated and control patients, neither between early SOFA-responders and SOFA-nonresponders in the treated group.

With respect to the high resolution EEG technique, the MEG technique allowed a more precise localisation of the sites of neural activity buried into the cortical sulci, but was unable to detect the response of the crown of the cortical giri and of the frontal-mesial cortex (including the supplementary motor area), because of its poor sensitivity to radially oriented dipoles.

Although it has been reported that poor sensitivity to visual acceleration makes it harder for expert goalkeepers to perceptually judge where the curved free-kicks will cross the goal line, it is unknown how this affects the goalkeeper's actual movements.

We find that the LGN has a robust response to RG color contrast, equal to or greater than the Ach response, but a significantly poorer sensitivity to BY contrast.

Thus, for these two groups, interval timing on different anchor durations was not properly scalar, that is, DL and BP did not co-vary proportionally in the sub- and supra-second time bisection tasks, with AD patients displaying the poorest sensitivity to ms-scale intervals, compared to both young and elderly controls.

Range of motion measured with the SOFI instrument obtained the poorest sensitivity to change which is not surprising since SOFI focus on motion of the thumb and finger flexion and few surgical procedures aimed to improve these functions in this study.

Most encoding domains degrade the OCT signal: Array approaches are prone to poor sensitivity due to detector noise, cross-talk and/or lower spectral resolution, whereas path length encoding suffers from sensitivity roll-off and decreased imaging range.

In the third municipality, a small area of Copenhagen, the increase corresponded more to the second round of screening, possibly due to poor sensitivity at the first.