Sentence examples for whether instability from inspiring English sources

The purpose of this study was to determine whether instability of the pelvic ring as assessed by Tile's classification is a predictor of death in patients with pelvic fractures.

Whether instability of vigilance regulation as assessed by the VIGALL predicts response to methylphenidate.

We have considered whether instability could be impeding fracture healing in these older rats, and we cannot find evidence of it.

At this point, we do not know whether exponentially growing rho0 cells are truly "protected" from nuclear chromosome damage or whether instability is not present because the CIN-inducing metabolic conditions are not met yet.

The combined picture produced by rates of 'changed', 'uncertain change' and 'no change' in individual-level stability could reveal whether instability is widespread or only present in a minority group.

These theories, which include the mutator phenotype, DNA damage-induced replication stress, telomere dysfunction, and mitotic checkpoint failure [ 5– 11], vary principally in their supposition of how early in tumorigenesis instability occurs, mechanisms leading to sequence level alteration, and whether instability initiates tumorigenesis or is merely a consequence of malignant transformation.

These numerical investigations reinforce inferences from the experimental studies that classical stability theory is less useful in determining whether instabilities will form and what their shape will be.

For the purpose of prognostic evaluation microsatellite status was categorized as MSS (stable) versus MSI (instable) whether having instability in no (0) or more (≥1) markers, respectively.

We use the model to consider how the strength of selection for driver mutations and against housekeeper mutations determines whether the genetic instability is required for efficient tumorigenesis.

We then asked whether an association exists among individual mononucleotide repeat markers, or whether the instability at each marker was an independent event.

In this work, using array-CGH as an analytical approach, we aimed at determining whether genetic instability was related to progression of colorectal cancer and verify whether it could be used as a prognostic indicator.