In a statement, it said: "If potential misconduct is identified then 'management action' can be adopted in preference to instigating disciplinary proceedings where a more timely, advisory and preventative approach is the most appropriate way forward – taking into account the nature of the complaint".
Occasionally adopted in preference to smelting (or pyrometallurgy, as it is generally known), leaching, or hydrometallurgy, is carried out at lower temperatures and thus eliminates the generation of sulfur dioxide; there are, however, effluents and residues that must be treated in order to protect the environment.
With the increasing use of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, primary flap reconstructions are likely to be increasingly adopted in preference to primary closure in patients requiring radical pelvic surgery.
Medians and quartiles have been adopted in preference to means and standard deviation as the former are more robust when the data are not normally distributed.
6 Since 2013, the name of physician associates (PAs) has been adopted in preference to physician assistants in the UK.
The reactive-centre sequence was adopted in preference to the numbering system used previously [ 22] because the former contains functional information lacking in the latter.
This is because modern tube surgery techniques have been adopted in preference to the Schocket procedure or Joseph tube because of perceived improved efficacy, better complication profile, and ease of use.
If HF does provide comparable support to NCPAP for preterm infants with early respiratory distress, then it is likely that it will be widely adopted in preference to NCPAP in NICUs as it is easier to use, more comfortable for infants, 29 reduces nasal trauma, and is preferred by clinicians and parents.
The Spanish were sufficiently impressed by the quilted cotton armour of their Maya enemies that they adopted it in preference to their own steel armour.
Knowing that a DDD equal to 2 was not necessarily twice as effective as a DDD equal to 1, it was decided to adopt a logistic regression model in preference to an ordinal logistic model.
239, 240, 81 L.Ed. 294, and he suggests that the views therein stated be adopted in the present case in preference to those embodied in the Panhandle Oil Case, supra.
