Results showed that ACE inhibitors were associated with a statistically significant 10 % mortality reduction: ( HR 0. 90 ; 95 % CI, 0. 84-0. 97 ; P = 0. 004 ).

In contrast, no significant mortality reduction was observed with ARB treatment ( HR 0. 99 ; 95 % CI, 0. 94-1. 04 ; P = 0. 683 ).

Interestingly, analysis of mortality reduction by different ACE inhibitors showed that perindopril-based regimens were associated with a statistically significant 13 % all-cause mortality reduction.

Since 1996 estimates, there has been a significant reduction in the total length of unpaved highway in Botswana-between 1996 and 1999 total length of unpaved highway fell from 14, 139 km to 4, 597 km.

The convention also offers decision-makers guidance based on the precautionary principle that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat.

This technique, soon labelled as “ class action Austrian style ”, allows for a significant reduction of overall costs.

There is anecdotal evidence that the use of nitrox reduces post-dive fatigue, particularly in older and or obese divers ; however a double-blind study to test this found no statistically significant reduction in reported fatigue.

In 2008, a study was published using wet divers at the same depth and confirmed that no statistically significant reduction in reported fatigue is seen.

Honduras received significant debt relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, including the suspension bilateral debt service payments and bilateral debt reduction by the Paris Club — including the U. S. -- worth over $ 400 million.

In the winter, there is a significant reduction of use, and the ferry service to and from Portsea Island is subsidised by the local authorities.

The team set out with a broad vision that was praised by both the Washington Post and Washington Star ( which rarely agreed on anything ), but funding problems forced revisions and a significant reduction in scale.

In conjunction with the arrival of European poetry and music this caused a significant reduction in the number of traditional folk songs and their singers.

After only 30 days of taking the tea daily researchers found Lemon balm tea resulted in a significant improvement in plasma levels of catalase, superoxide dismutase, and glutathione peroxidase and a marked reduction in plasma

" The authors further report a " significant increase in the speed of mathematical processing, with no reduction in accuracy " following the administration of a 300 mg dose.

In a study conducted at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ), treatment with ST-193 once a day for 14 days resulted in significant reduction in mortality ( 71 % of the animals survived at the low dose ), whereas all untreated animals and those treated with ribavirin died within 20 days of the infection.

He observed only small amounts of carbon dioxide reduction to carbon monoxide, and no other significant reduction products or newly formed carbon compounds.

The clearance of large tracts of land for crop growth has led to a significant reduction in the amount available of forestation and wetlands, resulting in the loss of habitat for many plant and animal species as well as increased erosion.

Silicon thin film solar cells on flexible substrates allow a significant cost reduction of large-area photovoltaics for several reasons:

A significant reduction in winter rainfall has been observed with a greater number of extreme rainfall events in the summer months, such as slow-moving storms on 8 February 1992 which brought of rain, the highest recorded in Perth, and a severe thunderstorm on 22 March 2010, which brought of rain and caused significant damage in the metropolitan area.

A study investigating structural changes in the brains of people with psychosis showed there was significant grey matter reduction in the right medial temporal, lateral temporal, and inferior frontal gyrus, and in the cingulate cortex bilaterally of people before and after they became psychotic.

Since the vocoder process sends only the parameters of the vocal model over the communication link, instead of a point by point recreation of the waveform, it allows a significant reduction in the bandwidth required to transmit speech.

Fruits are highly perishable so the ability to extract juices and store them was of significant value.

Locally owned and operated convenience store chain Quality Dairy is a significant presence in the Lansing market.

Later, it was noted that one of the most significant characteristics of RISC processors was that external memory was only accessible by a load or store instruction.

Today, the New York flagship store accounts for a significant amount of the entire chain's annual revenue.

As urine accumulates, the rugae flatten and the wall of the bladder thins as it stretches, allowing the bladder to store larger amounts of urine without a significant rise in internal pressure.

** Conventional: Chemicals such as gunpowder and high explosives store significant energy within their molecular bonds.

BINAC was significant for being able to perform high-speed arithmetic on binary numbers, with no provisions to store characters or decimal digits.

One of the first significant gifts of costume came in 1913 when the V & A received the Talbot Hughes collection containing 1, 442 costumes and items as a gift from Harrods following its display at the nearby department store.

Because the yo-yo has a significant rotational inertia, the yo-yo can store enough energy in its rotation allow it to fight gravity all the way back up to your hand.

In the early 2000s, the village received significant investment through mixed-use development, including renovation of the former Austin Powder housing stock and general store into boutiques, a restaurant, a tavern and a coffee shop, in conjunction with a new town center, village park and new housing in a town plan layout.

One option is to call the library routines once, to build up a table of those trigonometric values that will be needed, but this requires significant memory to store the table.

# having significant battery storage capacity to store and reuse recaptured energy, especially in stop-and-go traffic typical of the city driving cycle.

The 808 also had a significant impact on dance music due to its ability to program rhythm and drum sounds separately and store up to 32 patterns, which enabled it to become a serious compositional tool.

Canadian Tire has experienced a period of significant growth and success, having transformed its store network in three major waves beginning in 1994.

The only way to store a significant amount of energy is by having a large body of water located on a hill relatively near, but as high as possible above, a second body of water.

Although sales improved due to the better keyboard and significant discounts to the new list price, they declined again when the discounts ended after Christmas, with sales decreasing from an estimated 50 per store in December to 2. 4 in February.

Loblaw had begun opening large format, one-stop-shopping centres in Western Canada under the Real Canadian Superstore banner and within a decade these store accounted for a significant portion of earnings.

Weston also devotes a significant proportion of her time, as well as her business and fashion expertise, to Selfridges, the London department store of which she is a director.

But one significant advantage that cans had over bottles is that they were discarded after use, unlike the deposit typically paid for bottles and not reimbursed until after consumers returned the empties back to the store.

The human body cannot store fat and burn fat at the same time and Sears believes it takes time ( significant time if insulin levels were high because of unbalanced eating ) to switch from the former to the latter.

The cost / benefit analysis performed by an optimizer will calculate whether the cost of the store to is less than the cost of the multiplication ; in practice other factors such as which values are held in which registers are also significant.

These store up to 14 significant digits depending on the calculator model.

Tesco's initial policy was not to change the name over the door until the store had been upgraded to Tesco's standards, in some older stores this meant a significant rebuild of the premises.

Under the leadership of the founder ’ s grandsons Albert and Gerrit Jan Heijn, the company continued to make a significant impact on food retail in the Netherlands in the next four decades, pioneering self-service shopping, and the development of own brand and of non-food as a grocery store category.