The phrase "are based on short" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to something that relies on a brief or concise element, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The conclusions of the report are based on short interviews conducted with the participants."
Alternatives: "are derived from brief" or "are founded on concise".
In Buschiazzo et al.[ 26] 100 comparisons revealed a dN/dS ratio higher than one, and most of these estimates are based on short alignments where both the number of synonymous sites and changes were small.
Discussions are based on short stories, essays and newspaper articles, along with related media materials.
Most modern gasifier designs are based on short residence time fluidized-bed or entrained flow reactors, where heating rates are high and exposure to reaction conditions is short.
The fact that the decisions are based on short interviews conducted by administrators who have no religious background is particularly frustrating to Martens.
Most of the phylogenetic analyses so far are based on short DNA fragments, yielding variable results [ 12, 16, 22].
To this end we downloaded de novo cufflinks-predictions from the ENCODE project (Djebali et al. 2012) that are based on short reads (Materials and Methods).
Nitrate contamination is one of many problems that can arise when profits are based on short-term economics, in this case on maximized crop yields.
"As long as compensation and bonuses are based on short-term performance in the market," she said, "that's going to encourage risk-seeking behavior".
These people contend that Wall Street's pay structure, in which bonuses are based on short-term profits, encouraged employees to act like gamblers at a casino — and let them collect their winnings while the roulette wheel was still spinning.
Murray believes that some of the changes are based on short-sighted decisions that have undermined the company's competitiveness and made it more vulnerable to online retailers, such as Amazon.
However current risk assessments of soil invertebrates are based on short-term laboratory studies, of limited ecological relevance, supplemented if necessary by site-specific field trials, which sometimes are challenging to apply across the whole agricultural landscape.
