The Rh blood group system, which classifies blood according to the presence or absence of the Rh antigen, was developed in 1939 40.
While many luxury retailers focus on Beijing, Shanghai and other Tier 1 cities (according to the Chinese government's ranking system, which classifies cities based on GDP, population and governing system), Tondon says Le Tote China's goal is to reach shoppers throughout the entire country.
It uses a traffic light categorization system, which classifies threats on a Green/Amber/Red scale.
In 1954 Shell Oil developed the average freight rate assessment (AFRA) system which classifies tankers of different sizes.
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign categorized their recommendations using the GRADE system which classifies recommendations as strong (grade 1) or weak (grade 2).
The percentage of necrotic tissue following induction chemotherapy is assessed by using the Huvos grading system, which classifies patients as "poor responders" (PR) and "good responders" (GR).
MLEE is based on the MON system, which classifies Leishmania species according to a combination of 15 enzymes in specific electrophoretic profiles (zymodemes).
The West-Haven grading system, which classifies HE into categories, remains criticized because of its intense subjectivity and low intra- and inter-observer reliability [ 5, 22].
Costs related to hospitalization were estimated by using the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) system, which classifies hospitalizations into groups that are expected to generate similar use of hospital resources.
Five trials (Hays et al, 1994; Bruera et al, 1996, 1998, 2004; Hagen and Babul, 1997) evaluated patients using the Edmonton staging system which classifies pain as visceral, bone, soft tissue, neuropathic, mixed, unknown and incidental or nonincidental.
A ternary classification system which classifies leukemia expression data into three subclasses including B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia was also developed.
