As the disease progresses, subjects with COPD experience increasing deterioration of their health-related quality of life (HRQL), with greater impairment in their ability to work and declining participation in social and physical activities.
At the end of the assessment period, the study cohort was divided into 2 groups: those whose disease was radiographically stable (subjects with a change in SHS score under the SDD) and those in whom it had progressed (subjects with a change in SHS score above the SDD).
The question of interest is whether the degree of synchrony in the display of dot pairs (Exp 1) and/or of pair members (Exp 2) contributes to the integration progress Subjects either could or could not identify a given shape, so the decision is binary.
On this basis, the paired-sample analysis provides a better estimate of utility for both the progressed and non-progressed subjects.
In our model, all the trajectories of CDR-SOB scores were defined by individual DOTs and a rate, which could progress slowly in slow-progressing subjects, or faster with more or less acceleration as the disease evolved in fast-progressing subjects.
The president's policies are a work in progress, subject to further about-faces.
Invoices become a work-in-progress, subject to changes and, potentially, resolutions.
"Like all previous economic experiments, this project is going to be a work in progress, subject to constant refinement".
The International Financial Agencies are should care for the sustainable development of countries and should ensure that they are not subjected to oppressive lending systems which, far from promoting progress, subject people to mechanisms which generate greater poverty, exclusion and dependence.
Importantly, theories are not the same thing as absolute truths -- they are, at best, works in progress, subject to constant refinement and even refutation.
However impartial or wise this man might be, how can we let our nation's ability to make any kind of legal and societal progress subject to the whim of a single individual?
