Sentence examples for ascertain false from inspiring English sources

To ascertain false negatives (abused children not referred), all ER records were reviewed by the investigators and every suspicious case was interviewed by a public health nurse at a special home or hospital visit and, if concerns persisted, referred to the child protection team.

To ascertain the false discovery rate of the variant calls, a random set of 105 variants (taken from Additional file 1: Table S1) was picked for Sanger sequencing.

To assess the effects of disparate sample size of the histotypes in the merged copy number data, multiple sub-sampling (with replacement) on the merged serous tumors was performed to ascertain the false positive and negative.

Because the above analysis will favour callers that perform like CASAVA, and because we did not have DNA from the hepatocellular carcinomas for follow-up analysis to ascertain the false positive and negative rates, we next used exome data from two breast tumours for which whole genome amplified tumour and germline DNA was in hand.

The true LN status is practically unascertainable as there is no way to ascertain the false-negative rate.

Given that there have only been a handful of studies to date examining gene expression changes associated with smoking in the bronchial epithelium, it is difficult to ascertain whether these false positives are indeed false positives.

Update 5: Multiple attempts to contact Cision by telephone to ascertain how the false press release was distributed have not been successful — the number for its Swedish customer operative, Helén Rigamonti, is ringing out.

CXR screening exam costs included the cost of follow-up exams to ascertain suspicious or false positive CXR screens and the cost of time spent for quality assurance and program supervision.

In order to ascertain the cause of false-negative results and to find a predictor of influenza, comparisons were made between pairs of groups (FN vs TP and then FN vs TN) with respect to age, sex, vaccination status, time from symptom onset to test, temperature and symptoms.

TDS typically have low fill volumes so ensuring that systems are designed to properly tare material is critical to ascertaining quality without false positives for fill weight events.

Replication of these associations are necessary to ascertain that they are not false positives, but the results are consistent with the prediction that the interaction between these genes rather than their individual effects should be associated with phenotypic variation.