Technologies like MRI can help in surgical planning, resection control, and quality assurance.

Indeed, surgical resection of affected lungs has become the treatment of choice in many XDR TB hotspots.

Resection is also indicated for those with a thymoma, but it is less likely to improve the MG symptoms.

Financial interests opposed it vigorously at the time, viewing it as the thin end of a dangerous wedge, though they could not have guessed just how thick that wedge would eventually become.

In the process, they often insert a wedge that essentially disconnects fundamentals from pricing.

The Bush administration distinguished itself by driving a wedge between old Europe and new Europe.

But there is a risk that these interventions are the thin end of a dangerous wedge.

But, with this exchange of visits, a wedge has been opened for dialogue on more neutral ground.

Generally, Roman bridges featured wedge shaped primary arch stones (voussoirs) of the same in size and shape.

He proposed his idea to Chris Wedge in 2006, and the project was set up at Blue Sky.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Many Palestinians believe that Israel inflicted this damage on Gaza to drive a wedge between the people and the resistance.

Finally, the war on terror drives a wedge between â œusâ and â œthem.â We are innocent victims they are perpetrators.

This is the fundamental pitfall of a strategy based on driving a wedge between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas s moderates and Hamas s extremists.

Assad s defeat would break the axis of resistance, choke off Hezbollah s arms supplies, and drive a permanent wedge between Turkey and Iran.

Luzhkov, after all, had been vocally critical of Medvedev, while praising Putin allegedly an attempt to drive a wedge between the two.

The wedge strategy is a political and social action plan authored by the Discovery Institute, the hub of the intelligent design movement.

First among these is Syria. Post election Iraq was an obvious opening for the US to place a wedge between Iran and Syria.

For India s nationalist leaders, this meant that every foreigner with a briefcase should be viewed as the thin edge of a neo imperial wedge.

Neither side of the Atlantic is immune to the threat, despite the efforts of Osama bin Laden to drive a wedge between Europe and America.

It attacked the concept of public intellectuals, claiming that their independence drives a wedge between intellectuals and the Party and between intellectuals and the masses.

There are agency problems that drive a wedge between the interests of the owners of capital and the interests of bank CEOs and other finance executives.

A wedge exists between what a private person does given market prices and what society might want him or her to do to protect the environment.

Nuthatch refers to the propensity of some species to wedge a large insect or seed in a crack and hack at it with their strong bills.

In the end, it is the crippled financial system that is driving the wedge between China s large surplus of capital and formal financing for the country s SMEs.

The assumption dear to the architects of the current process that peace can be achieved by driving a wedge between moderates and extremists is a fatal misconception.

In both cases financial stability and cyber security the risk of contagion creates a situation in which a wedge can form between private incentives and social risks.

The reforms endorsed by the Third Plenum focus on this wedge between income and consumption, offering specific proposals aimed at altering the behavior of fear driven Chinese families.

The Bush administration distinguished itself by driving a wedge between old Europe and new Europe. It is to be hoped that the Obama administration will adopt the opposite course.

The notion, dear to the architects of the Annapolis process, that peace can be achieved only when a wedge is driven between Palestinian moderates and extremists is a misconception.

And probably the best part of this piece is at dusk and dawn when the twilight wedge has fallen and the ground's dark, but there's still the light above, bright above.

Holes in the social safety net have led to high and rising levels of precautionary saving driving a wedge between increases in labor income and any impetus to discretionary purchasing power.

But a Syrian Israeli peace would drive a wedge between Syria and Iran, thereby cutting off Hezbollah s lines of arms supply while allowing the vital task of stabilizing Lebanon to succeed.

Leaders in the North may mistakenly believe that they can circumvent or outmaneuver the South the so called strategy of driving a wedge between the Republic of Korea and the US.

However, under McCain, the wedge between public spending and taxes would be larger, Americans would feel richer, and they would spend more at the expense of posterity eight years down the road.

He came up with this Bowden wedge heel that has to be made out of steel or titanium if you make it from some sort of cheaper material, it'll actually crack in two.

People also believe that tax increases cannot realistically be purely temporary expedients in an economic crisis, and that they must be regarded as an opening wedge that should be avoided at all costs.

On the technology side, labor saving innovations in network based information processing and transactions automation have helped to drive a wedge between growth and employment generation in both the tradable and non tradable sectors.

Third, domestic macroprudential and microprudential policies increase resilience. These policies should aim at reducing or eliminating the wedge between activities that are good for individuals, banks, and firms, and those that benefit society as a whole.

The Israeli American strategy of driving a wedge between Gaza and the West Bank while shunning negotiations on a peace settlement that could give Abbas the ultimate tool to undermine Hamas is a policy at war with itself.

On November 23, 2004, an article in the Shanghai Party Committee s orthodox Liberation Daily disagreed. It attacked the concept of public intellectuals, claiming that their independence drives a wedge between intellectuals and the Party and between intellectuals and the masses.

One of the lessons that history teaches us is that history often teaches us the wrong lessons. For India s nationalist leaders, this meant that every foreigner with a briefcase should be viewed as the thin edge of a neo imperial wedge.

The issue of whether or not the instrument should be legally binding should not be a wedge issue anymore, taking into account the fact that the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons is already criminalized in many jurisdictions.

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

In the end, it is the crippled financial system that is driving the wedge between China s large surplus of capital and formal financing for the country s SMEs. Indeed, in some parts of southern China, the informal financial sector is growing to match the size of the formal financial sector.