Sentence examples for and were less persistent from inspiring English sources

When Di Xu, an economist at Columbia University's Teachers College, analyzed data from more than forty thousand students who had enrolled in online courses at thirty-four colleges throughout Washington state, she found that, relative to face-to-face courses, online students earned lower grades and were less persistent.

This interpretation is supported by the measured profiles of C2 emission intensity and their dependence upon the laser power, in contrast to the weaker emissions from rich CH4-air flames, which show no such dependence and are less persistent.

The fully brominated congener, BDE-209, has different chemical properties than BDE-47 and BDE-99 and is less persistent in the environment despite its extreme hydrophobicity (logKow ≥ 10) [ 1].

HPVs 16, 33, 59, 66, 69, and 83 (HR) were the most persistent types whereas HPVs 31, 45, and 58 were less persistent.

The hearing was less a grilling and more a question-and-answer session, and the British lawmakers were less persistent than their American counterparts at a hearing in June.

The study findings indicated strong cold weather-mortality associations in the island of Ireland; these effects were less persistent, and for CVD mortality, smaller in NI than in the ROI.

However, protrusions were less persistent in vitro without methylcellulose compared with in vivo, and speed of lamellipodial protrusion was increased (supplementary material Table S1).

According to the Fulani custom of sharo (test of young manhood), rival suitors underwent the ordeal of caning as a means of eliminating those who were less persistent.

All R mutants were less persistent than the parental strains, with differences that allowed classifying them into four broad attenuation patterns (Figure 7A).

Kymographs showed that wild-type lamellipodia protruded and retracted at regular intervals (Fig. 2I); Ena inactivation decreased the speed of lamellipodial protrusion and prolonged the persistence of these protrusions (Fig. 2H,K,L; Table 1), whereas Ena overexpression increased lamellipodial protrusion speeds but these faster-growing protrusions were less persistent (Fig. 2J L; Table 1).

We did not recalibrate these adjustment factors with our claims data since the numerator of the adjustment factor (days between fills) would presumably lengthen for patients who were less persistent on a given therapy, thus confounding the adjustment factor with a proxy measure of the outcome being assessed.