Informed consent for the clinical treatment study was not to be obtained during the patients' first consultation, as this served solely informative purposes and all patients were informed neither to give nor refuse consent before the following visit.
This was critical, as there is some uncertainty as to whether AMPK serves solely as a tumor suppressor or can function as a context-dependent oncogene(Liang & Mills, 2013).
The frame-specific shape term K w ij serves solely as within-individual variance and is therefore omitted in this experiment.
Strangely, the movie plays like an extended, dully methodical exposition that serves solely to reach its shattering climax.
In this extraordinary scene, he comes off as a burned-out, inhuman hulk whose sense of inescapable dependence — of being clay in Simone's hands and a plaything of his life's outer influences — results mainly from his actual existence being a sort of waking dream, a vague and vaporous cloud that serves solely to conceal the core of pathology, from himself and from others.
The specification of conditions serves solely to suppress a too great and implausible flexibility, especially at the boundaries of the covariate data ranges.
In the LETHE© (Low Emissions Turbo-Hybrid Engine) the GT (gas turbine set) does not directly provide traction, but serves solely as a battery pack recharger.
The renewable energy system and energy storage system are backed up by a gasoline generator, which serves solely as a source of power in the absence of wind or solar energy and when the battery bank is discharged.
Certainly, we will experience more but the odds of that "more" being a little "less" -- removed of the loud drums banging in the background -- are pretty good, especially if that banging serves solely as a skewed reminder of the "direness" we face as a nation as oppose to the 'greatness' that remains the catalyst to such challenges.
On the whole, photoplethysmography still serves solely as an alternative way of measuring HRV, with no definite advantages [ 57].
