Sentence examples for a proxy for comparing from inspiring English sources

Moreover, comparing MHCs could be a proxy for comparing kinship, and thus help to prevent inbreeding.The promise of an MHC-based match is not only that your partner's old laundry will smell better but all sorts of other benefits too.

Here we contrasted GABAergic and glutamatergic generation of hedonics versus motivation processes, as a proxy for comparing subcortical and cortical controls of emotion.

As a proxy for comparing closely related species, some of these studies have included two or more species from within a number of plant genera, but phylogenetic trees were not specifically used to gauge the relatedness of the species sampled.

Thirty-two of the indigenous case-patients (97%) had Caucasian names (name classification was used as a proxy for ethnicity) compared with 21 (19%) of 110 travelers (p<0.001).

Therefore, we examined whether the fine-silt fraction of riverbed samples could be used as a proxy for SPM, by comparing their ESR signal intensities.

We want to investigate whether an APN, collaborating with a GP, addressing the psychosocial needs of ADSom-patients can enhance the patients self-efficacy (a proxy for self-management) compared to usual care.

As a proxy for cohabitation, we compared intravaginal cleansing practices based on a woman's relationship to the head of the household and found no statistically significant differences (p = 0.351).

Our objective was to determine the criterion validity of a risk-stratification algorithm based on treatment characteristics available from a pediatric cancer registry as a proxy for disease risk, by comparing it to traditional biology-based risk classifications.

Interestingly, though, using EMR data as a proxy for registry data and comparing these data to the entire medical record, we found that similar rates of failure to match – slightly lower in 0 10-year-olds and slightly higher in 11–17-year-olds – would be expected for children from sites using an EMR.

We used the reported grip strength (per unit body weight) of murine model called Hyp homologues of X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets at the same age (10 weeks) [28] as a proxy for muscular force, and compared our experimental data (degree of orientation) with the normalised grip strength and muscle weight for wild type and Hyp mice (Fig. 7(B)).

Using the supertree of the NUTs as a proxy for the STOL, we compared the fits of approximately 3,000 largest trees (that is, the trees with the largest number of species) from the FOL to the supertree that was constrained either under the MC assumption or according to another, more general model that we denoted Universal PaceMaker (UPM) of genome evolution [ 24].