Absent objective and ongoing documentation of performance with accuracy-based proficiency testing that uses whole blood (or other suitable material that is free from matrix effects), point-of-care HbA1c devices should not be used for diabetes diagnosis or screening.
Missing scores Where an indicator of performance is absent, a process introduces substitute S-scores.
For instance, Hillel Steiner claims that "evil acts are distinguished from ordinary wrongs through the presence of an extra quality that is completely absent in the performance of ordinary wrongs" (Steiner 2002, 184).
And with the new GT3 and Turbo Cabriolet two wildly different demonstrations of Porsche power the company is flexing a range of performance skills absent at just about every other manufacturer.
You mentioned in your review that ego is refreshingly absent from this show's vision of performance art; I'd submit that the big exception is "Playlist," a roughly hourlong installation featuring tracks from across Marclay's recorded career.
Conspicuously absent from our ratings: any element of performance.
Absent performances of memorable intensity and lyricism — the actors here are capable but not outstanding — the Signature revival, directed by May Adrales, exposes the play's thin texture.
Mr. Patinkin had been absent from the performance Mr. Gurney attended of "The Wild Party".
Where Martin specialized in well-oiled insinuation and Garland in emotional volatility, undercurrents of lubricity and hysteria were completely absent in her performance on Tuesday evening.
A defense under the exhaustion clause, therefore, may not be asserted absent performance of the notice clause, since they are presumed to be the subject of promises made in exchange for each other.
Also on the court, but nearly absent in his performance, was Rutgers's leading scorer, Jerome Coleman.
