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The presence of oestrogen receptor-alpha (ER α) in tumour cells is essential for tamoxifen response, and together with the progesterone receptor it serves as a predictive factor for tamoxifen response in clinical practice (EBCTC, 1998).

Our model predicts the clotting time and anti‐FXa effects and could thus serve as a predictive tool for the anticoagulant potential of a new compound.

Studies have suggested that quality of life (QOL) evaluation before video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy for patients with hyperhidrosis may serve as a predictive factor for positive postoperative outcomes.

Furthermore, the model may serve as a predictive tool to design and test strategies for the cellular use of antisense oligonucleotides.

The information gathered from the study will serve as a predictive modeling procedure for the analysis and design of the removal of organic pollutants and decontamination of water.

Such human factors may explain a great deal of woody plant cover patterns in other global rangeland systems with similar historical contexts and serve as a predictive proxy of landscape trends.

We tested the hypothesis that tumor expression of natural cytotoxicity receptor ligands can serve as a predictive factor for the response to intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin in patients with nonmuscle invasive, high grade bladder cancer.

The numerical model developed in this study is shown to have high correlation with the experimental results and will serve as a predictive tool for the simulation of the implosion of different cylindrical geometries as well as various tube-in-tube implosion configurations.

Our findings can serve as a predictive guideline for the fabrication of crosslinked fibers with desired morphology, the implementation of the in-situ polymerization and spinning concept into other commercial fiber manufacturing technologies, and the adaptation of other functional or high performance monomer systems.

Finally, presence of the 4q12 amplicon might serve as a predictive marker for sunitinib response.

As noted before, we use Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis [12] in order to evaluate the ability of GCI to serve as a predictive test for a condition.