The phrase "affected prior" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to something that was impacted or influenced before a certain point in time, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The affected prior decisions led to significant changes in the policy."
Alternatives: "previously impacted" or "earlier affected".
The proposed methodology, the conflicting objectives of detection time, undetected pollution events, number of monitoring stations and population affected prior to detection are minimized.
Some 120,000 of the smartphones had apparently been affected prior to it pushing an update to kill the firmware's monitoring.
Some 120,000 of the smartphones had apparently been affected prior to it pushing an update to kill the firmware's monitoring.
"As far as we know, there was no discussion or consultation with any of those affected prior to making this decision".
There was dirt, mud, and sand in nearly every orifice, but the TRD Pro never overheated, stalled, or seemed affected (prior experience says that I can't say the same about some of the competitors from Ford and Jeep).
Notably, as shown in Table 1 recurrence of trigeminal neuralgia was confined to the segments which were affected prior to the first operation only in one patient, while another segment become symptomatic in one instance, and a wider spread of pain was evident in the third patient.
(a) related to intrastate and interstate traffic in biological products and suspension or revocation of licenses as affecting prior sales.
Results indicate significant increases in negative affect, and decreases in positive affect, prior to an NSSI act.
However, EChO's configuration and specifications are designed to study a number of systems in a consistent manner that will eliminate the ambiguities affecting prior observations.
Also the PO(a i, b i, c k, s k ) states affect prior awareness states PAwr(a i, b i, c k, s k ), retrospective ownership states RO(a i, b i, c k, s k ), action execution states EA(a i ) and sensory representation states SR(b i ) of effects b i.
As noted above, the difference-in-difference estimator provides a valid estimate of program impact if selection into the program is on the basis of stable characteristics affecting prior and subsequent earnings and employment that are not captured by variables that have been controlled10.
