Sentence examples for shortening measures from inspiring English sources

We compared indices of cardiac contractility, i.e. LV dP/dt max from telemetry while simultaneously collecting EF (ejection fraction) and FS (fractional shortening) measures from echocardiography.

Track the results of meeting shortening measures.

The remaining 5 participants had normal ejection (measured in 5 of 5) and shortening (measured in 4 of 5) fractions at all time-points.

According to the results of this study, self-ligating brackets induced less apical root shortening measured in periapical radio-graphs than conventional pre-adjusted brackets.

Advocates of euthanasia maintain that – in certain situations – the patients' fear of a long and painful death may lead to their expressing the wish for life-shortening measures.

Meng's test for dependent correlation coefficients was applied to test for differences in correlations between the shortened measures [ 28].

Sleep quality and ease of waking during the sampling collection were captured using the subjective sleep rating scale (Bertocci et al. 2005); a seven-item self-report shortened measure of the Pittsburgh sleep index (Buysse et al. 1989).

The shortening of measures of self-reported outcome has been practised quite widely in educational and psychological research but surprisingly, has not been common in studies of quality of life of cancer patients (Coste et al, 1997).

It has been suggested that psychosocial or biological stressors might act as mediators between telomere shortening and measures of poor mental well-being or self-rated health, for instance through increased oxidative stress on cellular level (Hovatta et al. 2010; Tyrka et al. 2009).

Furthermore, the axial conductance of proximal root regions removed at each step of root shortening was measured as well.

The column shortening was measured by LVDTs instruments while the longitudinal strain was measured by strain gauges in the reinforcement steel and inner concrete core.