Overall, UBF improved throughout the 12-month testing period, with the majority of improvement occurring between six- and 12-months PS, irrespective of whether UBF was measured objectively or via self-report (Table 1).
While the majority of improvement can be attributed to the swales, inclusion of check dams increases swale effectiveness.
While a mixture of regulatory and internally motivated improvement efforts are needed to ensure high quality care, the majority of improvement efforts are driven by external forces.
The time course of back pain improvement was curvilinear, with the majority of improvement occurring in the first two weeks after seeking care, and a leveling off of improvement after 4 weeks.
The majority of improvement occurred within the first 3 months after treatment (mean change scores ranging 19.7 for Sexual Function to 25.7 for Self-consciousness) with continuing, but slight, improvements to 6 months.
We therefore suggest that while the use of the machine learning classifiers accounts for the majority of improvement over naive methods, further improvement is achievable with the introduction of novel features thus illustrating the power of the flexible framework we used in this study (see also Section 3.3).
The majority of security improvements in the hardware and software we all use today is a result of this process.
The majority of the improvements will be funded by the Department for Transport as part of Network Rail's £40bn railway upgrade plan.
The majority of the improvements in this area have resulted from a better understanding of the femoral anatomy, in terms of both bony architecture [57, 58] and the vascularity of the physes [59].
Our results showed that the number of correct answers increased after each educational activity, both in the intervention as well as the control arm, and that the majority of the improvements were statistically significant.
