The development of minimally invasive surgical repair techniques for vertebral fractures such as vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty also invites biomechanical analysis of vertebral trabecular bone and the whole vertebral body in order to refine those procedures.
Intermountain has drawn on all the evidence it has to refine its procedures: reducing variation in treatment, summarising and constantly updating complex guidelines.
Over the past 15 years, we have been able to refine the procedures for needle or trocar and frozen sections biopsy to assess the adequacy of the biopsy specimen.
Use of reward reward tasks is also in line with 3Rs recommendations to refine scientific procedures to minimise potential suffering (NC3Rs: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/page.asp?id=7).
In line with the 3Rs principle, ZEBET's main priority is to reduce the number of laboratory animals to the absolutely necessary minimum, to refine experimental procedures and housing of animals, to minimize pain and suffering and, if possible, to replace animal experiments with alternative methods.
Scientific caution and startling patient mortality reduced the pressure for transplants in the 1970s, although Dr. Lower and others continued to refine the procedure.
Furthermore, we consider a unit root test that takes into account the structural break that occurred between 2008 and 2009 in order to refine the procedure to select I(1) variables.
In summary, our method takes advantage of (i) second-order Gaussian derivatives detectors for localizing the markers [21], (ii) a cluster analysis to identify them throughout a series and (iii) iterative procedures to refine the alignment process.
Outside of court, the Asian-discrimination claim may move colleges to refine their admissions procedures and better calibrate for diversity and fairness.
The corporation defended its disclosure efforts, though it pledged to work with the city to refine its reporting procedures.
