Sentence examples for artefact of our study from inspiring English sources

However, we cannot completely exclude the possibility that the prevalence of darker objects in the turtles is partially an artefact of our study design, as the debris in the turtles' gastrointestinal system is exposed to digestive fluids and other waste, which may result in a reduction of luminance.

We have no indications that this was an artefact of our study design, since the mean age of the control group was comparable with the mean age of primiparae in the Dutch population according to published national registry data (29.1 years from 2000 until 2005).

This consensus may well be an artefact of the history and structure of primary health care in Australia and the particular histories of our study sites.

The low number of detected bottlenecks in the present study could be an artefact of our analysis as many of the young populations of the invasive garden ant, however, have few polymorphic loci, which in itself is an independent indication of genetic bottlenecks, but it compromises the detection power of these programs [ 55].

This is a problem that will affect real studies and not an artefact of our analysis.

Additional studies are needed to verify whether the patterns we describe here are general or an artefact of our limited sample size.

First, they suggest that our results were an artefact of our performance of multiple analyses.

Therefore, the apparent wastefulness of the computations is an artefact of our use of SHARE.

Apparent lack of polymorphism could be an artefact of our technical choices and methods.

In the present case, however, this is an unintended artefact of our model.

The difference in acquisition approach, especially the chosen imaging plane and resulting differences in partial volume artefacts, between our study and the MESA study is one of the likely explanations for the discordant results.