Disease severity was categorized according of BTS and GOLD stages taking in consideration the values of FEV1 (% predicted) and arterial blood gases (GOLD I: FEV1 ≥ 80%; GOLD II: 50 ≤ FEV1 < 80%; GOLD III: 30 ≤ FEV1 < 50%; GOLD IV: FEV1 < 30% or < 50% plus chronic respiratory failure).
Standing in Another Man's Grave is a less convoluted puzzle than many of the Rebus novels (the solution becomes decipherable relatively early), but it is Rankin's most interesting book politically, marking a vital stage in the consideration of Scottish nationalist sentiment that has been a constant background to the series.
The second stage is consideration, in which the now-motivated shoppers seek information about the available alternatives.
Congress is expected to conduct hearings on the act as early as this summer, setting the stage for consideration in the 107th Congress.
Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, is expected to clear his first congressional hurdle today when the Senate Judiciary Committee votes to recommend his confirmation -- setting the stage for consideration in the full Senate as early as this week.
At this stage, we had to take in consideration two phenomena, associated to aCGH but not linked to cancer: sex chromosomes and polymorphic structural copy number variations (CNVs).
MLAs have spent most of Tuesday debating the welfare reform bill, which has reached the consideration stage in Stormont's legislative process.
Under one version of a bill in its last stages of consideration in Congress, Brazil will hold a referendum on whether to ban gun sales in October 2005 (another version does not specify a date).
The choice and utilisation of broodstock also represent a crucial stage in enhancement programmes, and considerations of bottleneck effects arising from reduced effective population size due to skewed parental and family contributions must be given careful consideration.
A two-stage stochastic programming model is built in consideration of the discreteness of equipment capacities, equipment partial load operation and output bounds as well as of the influence of ambient temperature on gas turbine performance.
