We found that there is no difference in discriminating power of predicting persistent OF among HDL, APO A-I and different scores (Additional file 1: Table S1).
Using RoC curve analysis, the same authors also found that a fractional excretion of 0.58% had the best discriminative power, resulting in a positive and negative predictive power for persistent AKI of 0.71 and 0.47, respectively [ 31].
In a country of persistent power shortages and blackouts, street lamps brightly illuminate the night, like strings of pearls running up and down scrub-covered hills.
Drop in integral of AC-EEG power, indicating persistent depression of spontaneous activity at the scalp, displayed a similar time course as drop in integral of AC-electrocorticography power, indicating persistent depression of spontaneous activity at the brain surface (Fig. 5).
And yet modern history provides enormous evidence for the persistent power of unreason.
And, like them, he has utterly underestimated the persistent power of that dream in Paris and Berlin.
But if the attacks are evidence of the persistent power of the Ampatuan family, some analysts said, they may also signal desperation over mounting threats to that power.
At almost three hours this rapturously received concert, sponsored by the hip-hop radio station Hot 97 (WQHT-FM), was a tribute to the persistent power of geographic mythology.
The persistent power of the religious right is a measure of what Obama is up against, but Obama won the election in part because he too is invested in Protestant traditions of self-reliance that pay lip-service to the church/state separation while welcoming God into the public sphere.
