Regrettably, a large and relatively disproportionate share of the fruits of that growth is going toward military expansion.
However, given their relatively disproportionate contribution to the numerator, the exclusion of these cases would result in an underestimation of mortality rates.
If ER positive and negative tumors were assigned to clusters in equal proportions, this ratio would be approximately 1. Otherwise, this ratio would be greater than 1, indicating that the clusters contained a relatively disproportionate number of ER negative tumors, as compared to ER positive tumors.
In each case, the presence of relatively focal brain atrophy (disproportionate to more diffuse background atrophy) and the direction of any cerebral hemispheric asymmetry on visual inspection were recorded for the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes.
The presence of bilateral, symmetrical hippocampal atrophy distinguishes mild Alzheimer's disease from controls with approximately 80-85% sensitivity and specificity (fig 2A ). 4 6 Alzheimer's disease is also associated with relatively greater and more disproportionate hippocampal atrophy than dementia with Lewy bodies (fig 2B).
"The widely publicized chilling effect of physician prosecution on physicians concerned with legal scrutiny over prescribing opioids appears disproportionate to the relatively few cases," the study reported.
Its cost, and criticism from Democrats who say it would provide a disproportionate benefit to relatively few wealthy families, have made it an obvious target.
Because they both serve the Hamptons, he said, both "reach an audience that is significant in influence in a way that is disproportionate to the relatively small circulation numbers".
The reason for this would appear to be that in the lateral positions, the relatively open superior lung receives disproportionate ventilation, whereas the dependent lung (where compressive forces are greater and collapse predominates) is relatively deprived of ventilation and therefore of the peak transpulmonary pressures needed to reopen collapsed tissue [3, 18 21].
"Relatively affluent households carry a disproportionate amount of the outstanding student debt," Baum writes.
Referring to Putin's "so-called annexation of Crimea," Page argued that Russia suffered a disproportionate response for "relatively minor" actions -- much in the way that Garner was strangled to death after confronted by the cops for selling loose cigarettes.
