The phrase "a conservative scoring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a scoring system or method that is cautious or traditional in its approach.
Example: "The judges employed a conservative scoring method to ensure that only the most deserving participants received high marks."
Alternatives: "a cautious scoring" or "a traditional scoring".
In other words, if you took an average Republican governor (with a conservative score of 43) and put him in a blue state like New Jersey, we would expect him to be unpopular, on net.
For further analysis of DDIs, we used a conservative score threshold of IS > = 10 to select 65,515 top scoring DDIs.
We used a conservative score threshold of IS > = 10 to predict potential DDI(s) in a given PPI of each species.
By contrast, Ali Larijani, a former negotiator on the nuclear issue who was replaced by Mr Ahmadinejad, apparently for being too soft (despite his reputation as a leading conservative), scored a resounding 70%.
In 1998, the A.D.A. gave a perfect conservative score of zero to Helms and to the Republican who eventually won Heinz's seat, Rick Santorum, while the Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone received a perfect liberal score of 100, and Ted Kennedy a 95.
In summary, a combination of optimizing PCRs, developing a conservative allele scoring protocol, and allowing for nonzero genetic distances in clonal identification allowed us to effectively identify multilocus lineages from multiple types of coast redwood tissue.
The more conservative scoring would reduce the effects of such biases.3 For the sake of brevity, we only report the latter analyses (results were largely consistent in the more liberal analyses).
Due to the conservative scoring technique used in this experiment, the performance data indicate that most of the AP musicians have high AP ability.
We used the conservative scoring protocol described in Kingston and Rosel [ 42] to protect against potential problems associated with uneven amplification among samples and poor amplification of larger fragments for degraded DNA samples.
When annotating protein sequences with the footprints of evolutionarily conserved domains, conservative score or E-value thresholds need to be applied for RPS-BLAST hits, to avoid many false positives.
