Sentences with phrase «defined as response»

Changes that are reflected in repeated measurements and that may not be attributed to real change in quality of life, are defined as response shifts.

Childhood Trauma can be defined as a response of overwhelming fear or helplessness to a painful or shocking event, or to chronic, toxic stress, including ACEs (adverse childhood experiences).

It is possible that you might feel jealous — jealousy is broadly defined as the response to a real or imagined threat to a relationship, whereas envy is the desire for another's possessions - after all, seeing your partner with an attractive rival is one of the main triggers of jealousy (see previous post about Facebook and jealousy here).

As defined by Smith, the term was connected to climate sensitivity (defined as the response of global temperature to doubled CO2), but impacts were central to the concept.

[13] Durable response (complete or partial), the primary endpoint, was defined as a response lasting continuously for at least 6 months and begun within 12 months of initiation of therapy.

Not exact matches

One Christian response is to say simply that the State can define marriage as it will, can confer whatever legal privileges on whatever couples it should single out for its protection, but that this has no bearing on the reality, which is a matter of metaphysics, not convention.

Process thought is usually defined in one of three ways: (1) as any view of reality that is dynamic and relational and based on the findings of modern science, (2) identified with «the Chicago School,» the University of Chicago Divinity School, both in its earlier phase of applying evolutionary theory to historical research, seeing religion as a dynamic movement that reconstitutes itself in response to felt needs, as well as its later philosophical phase, and (3) synonymous with the philosophy of Whitehead and Hartshorne.

George Weigel's lecture, and his responses during the discussions that followed, held up as key two observations: that the papal mission is fundamentally defined as «strengthening the brethren,» as a pastoral mission to believers; and that in the pope's addresses to the world and its polities he persuades, and does not» at least any longer» use secular polities» own modes of power.

I am not convinced that... surgical interventions are necessarily the right response for people... The reason I'm unsure is that if someone's gender identity does not match with their physical body, our culture treats our gender identity as what really defines us, rather than our physical sex.

Reuel L. Howe has defined it as «that address and response between persons in which there is a flow of meaning between them in spite of all the obstacles that normally would block the relationship.»

Thus, Bonhoeffer defines responsibility as «the total and realistic response of man to claim of God and of our neighbour.

That moment triggered a series of responses and counter responses by authorities and residents, as well as local and national clergy that shaped two weeks of protest and clarified camps that were largely defined by social and religious location.

It has been impelled to say that just as the eternal Word of God — God in God's Self - Expression worldward — is not confined humanly speaking to Jesus Christ but rather defined in him, so also the activity of the responding Spirit of God is defined but not confined to the specifically Christian response in faith within the Christian community.

Defining worship as «a consciously unitary response to life,» he reasons that God must be the all - inclusive wholeness of the world, who is worshiped by an integrated human personality.

In Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between them.

Depending on which figures one adopts, some 40 per cent of the population is below the poverty line (defined here as the inability to get access to 2,200 calories per day) Once the facts are acknowledged, teachers say, the appropriate value responses must still be discussed.

I much prefer Peter Rollins» approach to religious tradition as «a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»

In 595, John had assumed the auspicious title of Universal Bishop, which Gregory thought to be self - serving and regrettable.8 In order to demonstrate his own response Gregory publicly defined the role of the Roman bishop as the servant of the servants of God (servus servorum domini), a term that thereafter was used to describe the heart of papal authority and one which has been thereafter always associated with the Gregorian political imagination.

It seems to me, however, that Creel has not succeeded in defining a sense in which possibilities are understood as constituting a continuum and yet can be eternally known in a way which would permit God to use his knowledge of them to decide his action in response to any possible situation.

When I ask you what type of proof you require, your answer is to define what you will NOT accept as proof (anything having to do with human invention, testimony, etc.), but when it comes to what you WILL accept as proof your response is «God should know exactly what would work for me.»

In developing this argument I shall (1) take a close look at the notion of religious pluralism, finding it to mean much more than mere multiplicity of groups defined by ecclesiastical characteristics; (2) look at the historical form taken by pluralism in American society as a set of pressures to which responses were required; and (3) identify the «religiousness» of the response made by legal institutions.

Religious naturalism may be defined as the affirmation that there are one or more aspects of the world to which religious responses are appropriate.

In my earlier response to Chad, I was using the term ad hominem to mean «ad hominem attack» (though I failed to clearly define it as such).

In searching for a worthy response, Rollins says he is drawn to Christian mystics like Meister Ekhart, «for while they did not embrace total silence, they balked at the presumption of those who would seek to colonize the name «God» with concepts... By speaking with wounded words of their wounded Christ, these mystics helped to develop, not a distinct religious tradition, but rather a way of engaging with and understanding already existing religious traditions: seeing them as a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»

Sleep expert, Dr. Richard Ferber defined graduated extinction to Parenting as delaying your response time to baby's night waking in the hopes of getting them to eventually sleep through the night.

«Personality is a heavy word to put on a bug,» Marshall says, «but if you define personality as individual behavior responses — well, I've had some spiders, tarantulas of the same species and from the same population, and I can take one out of a box and let it run over my hand, and I have others that just freak out and try to run away.

The authors define the placebo effect as relief of symptoms that arise from patients» overall medical encounters including responses to medical symbols (such as medical diplomas prominently displayed on the wall or words on a medication bottle) and, importantly, patient - physician interactions.

Diuretic response was defined as kilograms of weight loss per 40 mg of the loop diuretic furosemide.

As the STM tip was moved along the length of the nanotubes, well - defined positions were found where the transport current changes abruptly from a graphitic - like response to one that is highly nonlinear and asymmetrical, including near - perfect rectification.

Sustained virologic response was defined as HCV - RNA < 25 IU / ml at post-treatment week 12 (SVR12).

A similar correlation between antiseptic susceptibility and response to an antiseptic are not as well defined.

The objective response rate (defined as the proportion of complete response and partial responses among all evaluable patients) was also higher with chemotherapy (92/549, 16.8 percent) compared with TKI (39/540, 7.2 percent).

These normal in vivo immune responses in IL -2-deficient mice question the importance of IL - 2 as defined by in vitro studies.

Clinical response to the therapies was defined as a drop in DAS28 - ESR (disease activity score) of 1.2 units between the baseline and at three months.

Of those, only 13 percent of patients experienced a treatment failure — defined as loss of response to infliximab or need for IBD - related surgery.

Archival passive acoustic recorders would aid monitoring needs that do not require an immediate response to a detection, such as defining migration corridors.

The time to see the depth difference plus the time for the motor reaction was defined as «response time.»

He notes that the International Health Regulations define a public health emergency of international concern as» an extraordinary event» which «constitute [s] a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease» and «potentially require [s] a coordinated international response.»

The total «response time» minus the time for the motor reaction was defined as «processing time» in the tests.

The disease control rate (defined as partial response or stable disease for more than 12 weeks) for all patients was 32 percent (6 of the 19 patients) and 50 percent (three of six patients) in patients who received one prior line of chemotherapy.

Massive blood transfusions — defined as transfusing at least 10 units of red blood cells within 24 hours — are given to patients experiencing severe blood loss, often in response to traumatic injuries but also in the context of procedures like cardiovascular surgery or liver transplantation and even in some non-surgical patients.

Inclusion Criteria: • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 • Have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)(Stage IIIb or greater) • Measurable disease, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 • Known PD - L1 tumor status as determined by an immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay performed by the central laboratory on tissue obtained at Screening • A woman of childbearing potential must have a negative highly sensitive serum (beta - human chorionic gonadotropin [beta - hCG]-RRB- at Screening within 14 days prior to study drug administration Inclusion Criteria for Crossover: • Participants must have been randomized to Arm A of the study and had radiographic disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 • Participants must have a mandatory biopsy at the time of disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 prior to crossing over.

This shows that the temperature response, even to a geographically defined forcing such as aerosols, shows little overlap with the spatial pattern of forcing itself — although of course there is some overlap.

Aging is defined as a progressive decline of body function and a decrease of physiological response to stress that ultimately results in death.

Two tumors (4 %) had a partial response, defined as reduction in tumor volume of more than 30 percent.

Professor Bargmann then embarked upon what was to become a lifetime mission to define how genes and the environment influence behavior by dissecting the neural circuitry of C. elegans and the genes, receptors, and signaling molecules involved in such behavior as feeding and responses to odors.

Errors in the interpretation of the signals that the tissue sends to the immune cells are the basis of defective wound healing and play a still poorly defined role in the establishment of autoimmune responses and in the most common pregnancy complications, such as recurrent abortion, preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction.

The authors wrote: «We argue that in the era of precision medicine, potential differences in response to compounds that disrupt the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway must be respected, especially as their effect may be defined by both genetic makeup and life events at the same time.»

As specific examples, our studies seek to define the molecular basis for platelet and endothelial cell responses and then extend these into patients to determine whether newly identified mechanisms can be targets for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

As current therapeutics are limited, it is essential to define the immune evasion strategies of these fungal pathogens which cause life - threatening infections and at the same time to understand the immune response of the human host to these fungal pathogens.