However, glucose measurements were taken randomly with each arterial blood gas analysis, and because mean postoperative glucose levels were used, the relative weight of incidental extreme values was diminished.
No doubt there is some value in nominating people outside the "establishment". But the value is diminished if your outsiders can't do the job.
It would be all too easy to slide from an emphasis on the importance of human choice into a growing assumption that when people are not able to make choices, when they become utterly dependent, their value is diminished.
And in New Jersey, Mr. Jeter's mother found a video of her son playing Little League — a treasure whose value was diminished 10 minutes into the film because someone in the Jeter family taped over it with the movie "RoboCop".
But there are colleges on the losing end, too — those stuck in conferences whose value is diminished by realignment, those that simply lack the resources to build teams good enough to break into the exposure game.
He noted that the big auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, guarantee the information in their catalogs, making buyers whole if inaccuracies are discovered within five years that result in a work's value being diminished.
The Yankees' staff is trying to choose between dropping the right-hander Jason Grimsley -- who is pitching with a bad elbow that will require surgery in the off-season -- and the left-hander Randy Choate, whose potential value is diminished by the fact that the Mets have only one prominent left-handed hitter, third baseman Robin Ventura.
So if everyone can do it then the value is diminished, right?
If eight was the larger of two numbers in a sum, then its full value was considered, but if it was being added to a larger number, its value was diminished.
That's because the present value of a company's future earnings stream is calculated using the current interest rate environment, and if interest rates rise, that value is diminished.
