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Free sign upThe phrase "adjusted by a factor of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving mathematical calculations, statistics, or any situation where a quantity is modified or scaled by a specific multiplier.
Example: "The final price of the product was adjusted by a factor of 1.2 to account for inflation."
Alternatives: "modified by a multiplier of" or "scaled by a factor of".
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It was found that for a 2 wt% dispersion, viscosity at zero shear rate could be adjusted by a factor of 1600 by changing pH from 3.8 to 8.3 in a reversible fashion.
The subthreshold slope, S (mV/decade), is evaluated by selecting two points in the subthreshold region of an ID-VGS graph as the subthreshold leakage current is adjusted by a factor of 10.
Log transformations were performed for all other samples after calculating L1/EF1A ratios (adjusted by a factor of 108).
To correct for the total number of genes within the two groups, the SGPs per bin were adjusted by a factor of 13,037/43,109 = 0.30.
32 CVD risk scores were adjusted by a factor of 1.4 or 1.5 for patients of South Asian origin or a family history of premature cardiovascular events respectively.
A summary of U.S. monitoring data for AEs removal in WWTPs is presented in Table 9 Because analytical methods for AE have changed, a consistent basis for comparison among the historical AE monitoring data requires that the values in the 1998 study be adjusted by a factor of 0.62 (see McAvoy et al. (2006) for details).
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When a parent hypothesis is rejected, one continues with testing all the child nodes of that parent while the significance level to be used at each node is adjusted by a factor proportional to the number of variables in that node.
For instance, measurements taken at a 1-m distance were adjusted by a conversion factor of 2.57.
Long-term human daily intakes of 14 37 pg/kg/day associated with the LOAELs were adjusted by an uncertainty factor of 10 to establish the TEQ-based TDI of 1 4 pg TEQ/kg/day.
This value was adjusted by an "assessment factor" of 5, which was derived from the standard deviation of nasal pungency (i.e., sensory irritation) thresholds, leading to a value of 0.12mg/m (0.09ppm), which was rounded down to 0.1 mg/m or 0.08 ppm.
The good agreement of the EUVAC and SEE derived photoelectron fluxes with the FAST measured fluxes at solar maximum lends support to an earlier finding that the previous reference solar EUV irradiances from the Atmosphere Explorer measurements need to be adjusted upward by a factor of 2 3 below 25 nm wavelength.
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