Sentences with phrase «detect more cases»

«Our study showed that clinicians are now detecting more cases of autoimmune encephalitis than they were in the past because of the discovery of these new neural autoantibody markers.

Not exact matches

The outbreak of Zika, a mosquito - borne disease, was detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems.

If no more cases are detected for 42 days, it would be declared free of the virus.

But the scientists found that 30 percent more high - risk cancers — those that doctors want to detect — were diagnosed through targeted biopsy than standard biopsy (173 vs. 122 cases) and 17 percent fewer low - risk cancers — those that are often over-diagnosed and over-treated (213 vs. 258).

Although more than a thousand supernovae have been observed by optical astronomers, the early x-ray glow from the explosions has been detected in less than a dozen cases.

No more cases of this rare illness were detected after temperatures started dropping in September, rendering the climate inhospitable to the mosquito that transmits the disease, most likely a subspecies of Culex pipiens.

In these patients, researchers are likely to see a highly variable mix of responses, and «it's not clear» whether the TV clip technique will be able to detect consciousness in more ambiguous cases, he says.

Seismic survey impulses are among the loudest noises humans put into the oceans, and in some cases can be detected more than 2,500 miles away.

«More selective HIV screening is thought to miss more cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.&raMore selective HIV screening is thought to miss more cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.&ramore cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.»

Here, too, the experiment detected a different mix of neutrinos than expected — in this case, fewer electron neutrinos and more taus and muons.

In the case of Larson's study, crayfish eDNA was detected in two lakes where the invader had not previously been observed by more conventional methods.

In the United States and Europe, more than 90 percent of Legionnaires» disease cases are diagnosed using a urine test that readily detects serogroup 1, but not serogroup 6 or other serogroups of Legionella bacteria.

The heterosexual men, however, had a more difficult time detecting the same orientation when it was located where an invisible picture of a nude man had been; this was not the case for heterosexual women when viewing their own sex naked.

The single PSA screening intervention detected more prostate cancer cases but had no significant effect on prostate cancer mortality after a median follow - up of 10 years.

For the new project, the team rechristened Paraswift as C2D2 (Climbing Corrosion Detecting Device) and modified it for use as a corrosion detector: «We made the casing and wheels more robust and incorporated the corrosion - identification technology,» explains Elsener, who is spearheading the project.

In many cases, these variables are detected more easily or accurately by computers than by human observation.

In many cases a phenotype can in fact be detected using more specialized assays - e.g., measuring circadian rhythms (38).

Indeed, when we compared 14 cases of DCIS (preinvasive lesions) from women who had a pregnancy 6 — 25 years prior to diagnosis with 13 cases from age - matched nulliparous women in a tissue bank from the University of Colorado (Figure 7 — source data 1A), we detected significantly more pSTAT5 + lesions in the parous cases than in the nulliparous cases (p = 0.01; Figure 7A, B).

In these cases, UroSEEK could be detecting clonal proliferations in the bladder epithelium that did not progress to cancer, and such proliferations may be more common in patients with BC than in the general population Risques and Kennedy, 2018Because only one biopsy from the primary tumor was available for comparison, it is also possible that intratumoral heterogeneity explains some of the discrepancies.

Such a test on whole proteins, however, detects selection in only the more extreme cases.

Last April, a new, much - more accurate test came out that detects more than 95 % of cases, Gaydos says.

«In still other cases, the medical visits are oriented around more pressing and urgent medical problems, and the clinical opportunities to detect depression are missed,» he said.

In the case of this subject and grade level test, the VAM does not appear to be able to detect a range of teacher effectiveness that is substantially more discriminating than those reported for more traditional forms of evaluation.

Sensors in the rear bumper, and in some cases the front bumper, detect objects you might not be able to see as you draw closer to them, which typically results in a beeping sound that gets more and more frequent as you get closer and closer.

This book taught essential detecting skills, encouraged the formation of young - detective clubs to pool knowledge and maximize crime - solving success, and combined playful exercises with real - life tales of kids who cracked cases with little more than a pencil and their wits.

So some of the increase in cases could just be due to more sensitive tests that pick up fewer adult parasites in the heart than the older tests could detect.

Any infection, calculi and prostatic disease can be clearly detected by these means, but for further confirmation is needed in more complicated cases such as ultrasound and various advanced cytological and microbiological examinations, in order to get ultimate confirmation of the condition.

It's a game that wants you to embrace a more realistic atmosphere, but allows players to park a tank in a bush, creating an invisible predator that's near - impossible to detect; and of course it's a game that rewards patience, but includes a short - cut just in case you're looking to get a little bit of an edge sooner than later.

«Working with data pertaining to 7450 cardiovascular - related deaths that occurred within Budapest, Hungary, between 1995 and 2004 — where the deceased were «medico - legally autopsied» — Toro et al. looked for potential relationships between daily maximum, minimum and mean temperature, air humidity, air pressure, wind speed, global radiation and daily numbers of the heart - related deaths... scientists report and restate their primary finding numerous times throughout their paper, writing that (1) «both the maximum and the minimum daily temperatures tend to be lower when more death cases occur in a day,» (2) «on the days with four or more death cases, the daily maximum and minimum temperatures tend to be lower than on days without any cardiovascular death events,» (3) «the largest frequency of cardiovascular death cases was detected in cold and cooling weather conditions,» (4) «we found a significant negative relationship between temperature and cardiovascular mortality,» (5) «the analysis of 6 - hour change of air pressure suggests that more acute or chronic vascular death cases occur during increasing air pressure conditions (implying cold weather fronts),» (6) «we found a high frequency of cardiovascular death in cold weather,» (7) «a significant negative relationship was detected between daily maximum [and] minimum temperature [s] and the number of sudden cardiovascular death cases,» and (8) «a significant negative correlation was detected between daily mean temperature and cardiovascular mortality.»

Elder abuse, particularly when it involves a patient in a residential care facility, can be difficult to detect and for every reported case of abuse, more than five cases may go unreported.

In this case, you can also connect it to your Amazon account so that when the machine detects that it's running low on laundry supplies it can automatically re-order more.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

The Pediatric Symptom Checklist - 17 (PSC - 17) has been widely used clinically and in research for more than a decade yielding higher rates for detecting psychosocial dysfunction than clinical judgement and case rates comparable to the PSC - 35, other psychosocial screens, and semistructured interviews.

The inclusion of child report at the follow - up may have lead to more cases being detected.

Based on this more conservative 33 % target reduction in the numbers of self harm episodes between developmental group psychotherapy intervention and control, 312 cases (a 370 target allowing for 15 % case attrition) were estimated to be necessary to achieve 80 % power to detect this difference at the 5 % level of significance with a Mann - Whitney (two sided) test for categorical data.