These findings suggest that autoantibody responses are sustained for variable lengths of time depending on the B cell subset producing the autoantibodies.
In addition, a strong correlation between self-reported questionnaire data on smoking behaviour and plasma cotinine levels has been found (18, 40) and maternal cotinine was found to be highly correlated with the sustained smoking variable (r = 0.76) in the subsample of ARIES participants with first trimester maternal cotinine data available (N = 323).
Statocyst cells have (Cells 4 and 5) or do not have (Cells 1 3 and 6) spontaneous firing rates, show a peak excitation during the transient phases of tilt (Cells 1 6), show a response decay following termination of the acceleration (and velocity) phases of tilt motion (Cells 1 6), and have variable levels of sustained excitation during the duration of the tilt displacement (Cells 4 6).
Although systems exhibiting sustained oscillation may have variables that operate only on the regulatable regions of the rational functions, this need not be the case.
T cell responses in the aged are lower, less sustained, and more variable compared to those in young mice.
Breast cancer is an heterogeneous disease, as sustained by wide variable morphological appearance, many risks factors and distinct gene expression profile [ 2, 22].
Steady-state blood glucose concentrations at 15.0 mmol/L were sustained with a variable 20% glucose infusion for 80 min. Thereafter, 5.0 g arginine was administered to measure maximum insulin secretory capacity at a steady-state blood glucose concentration of 15.0 mmol/L.
The media has an important role to play in cervical screening through, for example, programme story-lines where a character has cancer (Meissner et al, 2004) in the United Kingdom this can produce profound short-term effects, although evidence for effectiveness in bringing about sustained increases is variable (Howe et al, 2002).
Amplitude had significant effects on some variables (sustained modality: complete stabilization time in the low precision condition; impulsion modality: reach time in the high precision condition, and rate of failure in the high and low precision conditions; see Table 2), but no dependent variable increased monotonically as a function of amplitude.
Six models were fitted sequentially in this estimation, with an aim of observing the impact of mother's education on child's stunting and whether the impact of education is sustained when other variables (mothers' and child characteristics, household, and community level) are introduced into the model.
