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FORMAS ING Y TO INFINITIVO

1. Formas -ingGerund (verb-ing)

Nurturing this migration to stimulate productive research and

improve clinical medicine is an ever-present challenge for the NIH.

As object

A forty-year-old woman gave up smoking due to her premature

osteoporosis.

As object of prepositions

A sleep disorder exists whenever a lower quality of sleep leads toimpaired functioningor excessive sleepiness.

As predicate noun

The main function of antibiotics is killingor injuringbacteria

Present Participle

Smoking cigarettes is causing angina in patients with coronaryartery disease.

Indicating a relative clause

Other published trials comparing nicotine patch with placebo had

similar results

Prepositions

During the electrophysiological study, ventricular fibrillation waseasily inducible.


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Adjectives

The use of nicotine chewing gum (4 mg) has a smaller effect on

blood pressure and heart rate than cigarette smoking.

2. InfinitiveAs subject

To quantify the risk and severity of negative effects of treatment

for localised prostate cancer on long term quality of life was our

objective.

As object

He started to havetonic-clonic movements of his extremities.

As subject complement

The objective is to investigate the risk of early childhood cancers

associated with the mothers exposure to radiofrequency.

As adjective complement

It is possible to feel the radial nerve as it passes around thehumerus.

Passive Voice

There are no large blood vessels or nerves to be injured in this

line.

Perfect Form

A nursing home was reported to have set up an excellent

treatment plan.

Ejercicios de formas de -ing

1. Other published trials comparing nicotine patch with placebo (not analysedhere because their follow up was shorter thansix months) had early results

similar to the six trials includedin this analysis.

2. The direct effects of nicotine in increasing blood pressure and heart rate areshort term andshared by many common activities not regarded as

hazardous.


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3. Also, smoking a cigarette does not commonly precipitate anginain patientswith coronary artery disease.

4. In any case the useof nicotine chewing gum (4 mg) has a smaller effect onbloodpressure and heart rate than cigarette smoking.

5. If there ishazard at all it must be smaller than that of continuing tosmoke.

6. Nicotine dependent patients who are motivated but have not succeeded instopping smoking without nicotine replacementcan be advised to use this

therapy.

7. Nicotinereplacement therapy overall could enable about 15% of smokerswho are motivated to seek help to give up smoking - a useful effect in

overcoming a lethal habit.

8. Bioengineering advances the nation's health by increasing biologicalknowledge through the use of engineering principles and techniques and

contributes methods that have facilitated the development of novel devices

and drugs.

9. To address current needs and prepare for the future of this emerging area, Iam establishing an NIH bioengineering consortium.

10.BECON meetings will identify major issues and establish small workinggroups, each led by a BECON representative and including individuals with

appropriate expertise.

11.Panels discussed the role of biomedical engineering in addressing thesechallenges and proposed recommendations for future NIH activities.

12.He emphasised the importance of increased funding by the NIH forbioengineering.

13.Panels, dealing with a broad range of biomedical engineering researchareas discussed the obstacles to addressing future research needs and

made recommendations for areas of investment and for means to

implement the recommendations.

14.New developments are providing crucial information and essentialapproaches for understanding the structure and function of cells and

molecules.

15.The emergent microscopies are particularly critical in research onmechanical modelling of cells and tissues, interactions of implanted devices

with host tissues, biosensors that monitor physiological processes, and

prosthetics to augment deficient sensory systems.

16.Diagnostic imaging of tissues and organs, especially in the modalities ofultrasound, nuclear medicine, nuclear magnetic resonance and

spectroscopy, and X-ray computed tomography, has been a field of rapid

advances.

17.The NIH can facilitate achievement of this goal by supporting themultidisciplinary research necessary to develop instruments and devices

for the next century.

18.Improvements in preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic medicine requirethe ongoing infusion of new technologies (drugs, devices, equipment and

procedures) evolving from discovery and knowledge gained through basicbiomedical research.


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19.Nurturing this migration to stimulate productive research and improveclinical medicine is an ever-present challenge for the NIH.

20.Nanobiotechnology will generate new capabilities, facilities, andapproaches for investigating and understanding cellular and molecular

processes.

21.Biochemical modeling is a glue holding together various experimental andinterpretative modalities.

22.Both fields involve acquiring, processing, and analysing information.23.Biomechanics is a branch of engineering science dealing with the

involvement of force, deformation and motion in biology, from molecules to

whole individuals.

24.Diseases involving electrical dysfunction in the heart, brain, and skeletalmuscles are major health problems.

25.In the herniaprogramme the sound is of patchy quality, varying in clarityand amplitude.

26.The teaching of operative surgery will almostcertainly involve computerbased learning packages such as these.

27.At present, they are limited in scope and expensive, and most trainees areunlikely to find them more useful than the traditional combinationof a

textbook of operative surgery and a period of supervisedtraining in the

operating theatre.

28.To conduct a systematic review of the efficacy and safety of exogenousmelatonin in managing secondary sleep disordersand sleep disordersaccompanying sleep restriction, such asjet lag and shiftwork disorder.

29.A sleep disorder exists whenever a lower quality of sleep leads to impairedfunctioning or excessive sleepiness.

30.Our findings can help to guideclinicians and patients in treatment decisionsregarding theuse of exogenous melatonin in the management of these

conditions.

31.Continuousoutcomes were combined, using a weighted mean difference,withthe exception of sleep quality, for which studies were combinedby

using a standardised mean difference.

32.A point estimate with corresponding95% confidence interval wascomputed for each outcome.

33.Regarding the effect of allocation concealment on effect estimates,failure toconceal treatment allocation adequately is associatedwith larger effect

estimates.

34.Two other systematic reviews examining the use of melatonin for jet lagconcluded that melatonin is effective in alleviatingthe symptoms of jet lag.

35.The MRC's chief executive, Colin Blakemore, announced on Monday that ateam of senior scientists, including the MRC's influenzaexpert John Skehel,

would be visiting China, Vietnam, and HongKong.

36.The proportion of rehabilitationpatients requiring subsequent surgerycontinues to increase.


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37.Chronic low back pain, defined as pain lasting for more thanthree months,is common and places a major economic burden on individuals, the

healthcare system, and society as a whole.

38.The chosen form of analysis willfacilitate comparisons between the costeffectiveness of surgeryand that of other healthcare interventions

competing for healthcareresources.39.Rehabilitation patients attendeda paced exercise and education

programme based on principlesof cognitive behaviour therapy totalling

about 75 hours.

40.We used unitcosts obtained from the lead investigating centre to valuetypesand numbers of surgical implants and intraoperative spinal xrays.

VOCABULARIO:

Hazardous: arriesgado, Hazard: riesgo, Enable: permitir, Overcome. Superar,

Consortium: consorcio, BEACON:Bioengineering Consortium, NIH: NATIONAL

INSTITUTE OF HEALTH, Range: alcance, Microscopies: microscopies, Ongoing:

actual, Nurture: alimentar, Patchy:irregular, Scope: alcance, Jet lag. Aturdimiento

tras un largo viaje en avin, Allocation: asignacin

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