The PROgnostic Value of incidental Information in Diagnostic Imaging (PROVIDI) Study is the first longitudinal study to investigate the prevalence and clinical relevance of incidental, subclinical image characteristics in a cohort consisting of patients with diagnostic chest CT.
This study aims to investigate the prognostic value of incidental aortic valve calcification (AVC), mitral valve calcification (MVC) and mitral annular calcification (MAC) for cardiovascular events and non-rheumatic valve disease in particular on routine diagnostic chest CT.
The Stoics made emotions into judgments about the value of things incidental to an agent's virtue, to which we should therefore remain perfectly indifferent.
Rear Admiral Joseph Krol, director of Deep Submergence Systems says his office hadn't realized the scientific value of such "incidental data" until 1993, when the Navy began donating time aboard Arctic subs for science.
We believe that the value of such incidental high scores is limited: observers may project their own feelings to the child, and heart rates and cortisol levels may also rise as a consequence of "positive" stress (e.g., in the waiting line for the roller coaster).
Four studies report temperature values incidental to a different study objective.
Critical values for incidental mortality have been established by the International Whaling Commission and the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act.
These stresses can exceed permissible values in the case of incidental strong thermal differences.
The report states that gifts handed out to executive committee members were of "incidental" value and, along with accommodation costs for executive members and their families, did not violate any rules.
In well-paid activities such as pop music and architecture, the prize fund often seems to be of incidental value to the winner; it has become something of a minor tradition for the winner of the Mercury Prize, before making a rambling, drink-slurred speech, to toss away the winning cheque, worth £20,000, as if it were a mere flyer picked up outside a Tube station.
