Figueroa's son Julián later confirmed the news, but did not specify the severity of his father's health problems at the time. .
The groups identify individuals with multiple chronic co-morbid conditions and explicitly specify the severity of illness for each individual.
We specify the severity of this penalty through a shrinkage parameter λ; the number of nonzero β j estimates is related to λ.
This assumption should be appropriate for sharp, punctuated bottlenecks and allows us to specify the "severity" of a bottleneck in terms of a single parameter, N2/ N2/
60 61 Seven trials reported specific data for serious pneumonia, five for fatal pneumonia, and eight reported pneumonia without specifying the severity of disease.
Major discussion topics in the focus groups circled around whether or not to use the term "mental illness", whether or not to include a definition of the term "mental illness", the wording of each of the items, whether or not to include a specific diagnosis or to specify the severity of mental illness.
However, data specifying the severity of gonadal disruption in individual fish (as opposed to the overall proportion of intersex fish in a river) are rare; those studies that have provided such detail suggest a low proportion of severely intersex fish in river systems in Europe and the United States (Bjerregaard et al. 2006; Blazer et al. 2007; Jobling et al 1998; Minier et al. 2000).
After validating the diagnosis, the GP is asked to specify the severity level of heart failure according to New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class.
For the Perioperative Adhesion Risk Score, the four possible rates specified to determine the severity of pre-existing adhesions single adhesion, two or three adhesions, >3 adhesions, and adhesion(s) with bowel involvement correspond to the categories that were originally defined by Knightly et al. [ 30], and which have been adopted as standard over time.
In contrast, specifying the severity distribution is more complex to some extent.
