Sentence examples for a reference definition from inspiring English sources

'Observed availability of at least one valid unit' was used as a reference definition, and ratios between the reference and each of the other four estimates were calculated.

'Observed availability of at least one valid unit' was used as a reference definition of current availability for two reasons: i) it is the most restricted definition routinely collected for all medicines assessed in SPA beyond the selected 32 medicines; ii) it is also the definition currently used in SPA final reports.

Within a multicenter study, we needed a constant reference definition; in the interests of parsimony and persuaded by the argument that children with these 2 signs would almost certainly be included on the basis of lower chest wall indrawing or yet more severe signs, we did not include them in the PERCH case definition.

From 2001 through 2010, a total of 588,308 cases fulfilling the reference definition were recorded in Germany.

We also calculated the remission rate using the Boolean approach as a reference (Boolean definition: number of swollen and tender joints each ≤1, C-reactive protein (CRP) ≤1 mg/dL and PGA ≤1); the remission rate was 50%, which was 10% lower than the SDAI remission rate (see online supplementary figure S2).

Retrospective six-month period availability was lower than the reference definition of current availability by a wide range of magnitude across countries and medicines.

The Kc factor serves as an aggregation of the physical and physiological differences between crops and the reference definition.

The reference definition has practical advantages compared to the other definitions assessed in this analysis.

The reference definition of the TLR3 pathway was retrieved from Reactome (http://www.reactome.org) as a gene list.

In addition, the terms 'early' and 'late' RRT are subjective and there is no reference definition.

Self-reported diabetes among participants with above vocational school education had substantial agreement (κ=0.658) with the reference definition.