The phrase "as less prone" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to compare the susceptibility of two subjects, but the correct form should be "less prone to."
Example: "This material is less prone to damage than the previous version."
Alternatives: "less likely to" or "not as susceptible to."
It was marketed by Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Conn., as less prone to misuse than other narcotics.
Our view is that applications for warrants would be much better scrutinised, as well as less prone to abuse, if they were authorised by a senior judge.
OxyContin, which when properly used releases timed doses of the synthetic opiate oxycodone, was originally marketed by its maker, Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Conn., as less prone to misuse than other narcotics.
Those criticisms have burnished the Perry image as less prone to ideological compromise or a fuzzy "compassionate" brand of conservatism, an appealing trait to those Republican primary voters seeking purity in their nominee.
Higher levels of perceived social support, i.e., experiencing the partner as less prone to prolonging conflict, is associated with lower levels of "Fear of Rejection" and higher levels of "Readiness for Self Disclosure" towards their partner.
The kidney is an organ receiving a high amount of oxygen and is generally regarded as being less prone to reduced oxygen delivery.
Donor governments and aid agencies also fear that western publics will not support cash – seeing it as less visible or more prone to corruption.
The costs are reported as both mean (standard deviation) and median (interquartile range) as proposed by Briggs [ 13] as means are less prone to reduce the impact of extreme values and hence enable better description of costs across a patients sample.
In general, randomised controlled trials are considered the gold standard for estimating screening effects, as they are less prone to several biases than observational studies, such as bias by self selection of screening participants, confounding, and recall bias.
We selected risk ratio as a measure of effect for the binary outcome (death) as it is less prone to artificial inflation from heterogeneity than risk difference.
Samples of the as-cast ones are less prone to recrystallization than the heat-treated ones.
