Sentence examples for and thus preferred from inspiring English sources

While both extraction methods yielded similar results (80 100%), Soxhlet extraction was found to be less labor-intensive and thus preferred providing also lower RSDs of 1 6%.

These recruitment efforts met with mixed success, as most states had been assigned quotas for troop recruitment to fill their line companies, and thus preferred to have men enter those commands rather than Hazen's.

Duration of surgical treatment is considerably shorter comparing to radiotherapy and thus preferred by the patients.

While KFWER and KBIN offer control of the false positive count, KBIN is more powerful and, thus preferred.

An exception is the newer slide test for typhoid which takes 20 minutes and is cheap (Rs50, USD0.85) and thus preferred over the older tube test which takes 24 hours and is more expensive (Rs250, USD 4.15).

This indicates that although the unidimensional construct is more internally consistent than the four-factor construct and thus preferred, interpretation of this instrument with respect to the four factors, especially with the subsample of drinkers, would not be entirely inappropriate.

Many explained it as Microsoft simply biding its time, trying to fight off its old Borg/Darth Vader image, and thus preferring not to be seen as too aggressive in its actions to acquire Yahoo.

High cost firms expect costs to fall in the future and thus prefer regulation which becomes stricter over time.

Low cost firms expect compliance costs to rise in the future, and thus prefer weaker regulation in the second period.

This is important because a ZigBee node is typically battery-powered and thus prefers low duty cycle operations[18 20].

"Investors fear that these small-cap stocks are more vulnerable in slowing economies and thus prefer the blue chip and larger stocks at this time," she says.