Sentence examples for as a first standard from inspiring English sources

Future work could also use our results as a first standard measure of performance to which more recent performance could be compared.

For these cases we will calculate the agreement between these two standards to further justify the use of MRA as a second reference standard.

This system of causes (with the addition of the instrumental cause as a sixth) became standard in later Neoplatonism.

It can also be used as a fourth-gen standard for cellphones, and we know that Sprint is rolling out its 4G WiMAX network right now.

As a first step, a standard DD estimator is implemented by comparing the change in the outcome of women aged 30 to 34 (affected by the policy) with the change in the outcome of men of the same age group (unaffected by the policy) between pre- and post-policy period, assuming that the outcomes of both groups would have had a parallel trend in the absence of the policy.

As a first step, the standard deviation is computed for the original data series, which contains 512 data points.

A "primacy bias" was observed such that prolonged stability produced large increases in the MMN to deviations from the first established standard but substantially smaller MMN to this first standard as a later deviant.

As a first assessment they received standard package leaflets, and during a second assessment 1 week later they were presented modified package leaflets of combined oral contraceptives.

In fact, there are now more than 30 different reporting standards, and even an effort, the Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI), that aims to collect standards as a first step to rationalizing and standardizing them.

Anhanguera negotiates with publishers to provide textbooks for as little as a fifth of the standard price.

We chose to use the PHQ-15 because of its availability and as a second best reference standard after the physician's judgement as this self-administered questionnaire has been validated for clinical practice and research for screening and monitoring MUPS and somatoform disorders by Kroenke and van Ravensteijn [ 20, 27].