The contact angle analyses, capillary rise, flow tests, and imbibition spontaneous tests were used to estimate the effect of treatments on wettability.
In summary, spontaneous tests of object recognition have proved remarkably powerful, despite their inherent limitations and potential confounds.
In spite of these issues, it is possible to determine if spontaneous tests of recognition memory tax similar neural structures to those required for forced-choice tests of recognition.
Spontaneous tests of object recency are, however, not so rigorous and could arguably be solved by comparing the different trace strengths associated with individual items (older items would typically have weaker trace strengths).
The first point is that for some spontaneous tests of object recognition, associated item information that depends on the hippocampus (context, location in time or place) may contribute to the normal pattern of object discrimination.
Available data also suggest that, as an effect of the organised programme, some of the women who previously had more frequent spontaneous tests switched to the recommended 3-year interval (Ronco et al, 1997), resulting in test savings, therefore plausibly in increased cost-effectiveness.
Age-staging was based on a combination of 1) quantitative extrapolation from prior stock-specific survivorship data [ Bonkowski et al., 2006], 2) presence/appearance of aging-associated wizening (as represented quantitatively by declining body weight), and 3) spontaneous, testing-independent, (and presumably) aging-resultant mortality.
In the spontaneous alternation test, the test mouse was placed at the end of one arm and was given 7 min to explore.
The animals were tested in two learning and memory tests, specifically, fear conditioning and the Y-maze spontaneous alternation test, and detailed results are reported in supplementary material Table S5.
In every patient who overcome the weaning guideline process (including spontaneous breathing test), we implemented also an aritificial airway removal guideline, containing the cuff-leak test, in Volume Controlled Ventilation (CMV) and with the cuff deflated.
