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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ascertained rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two methods or approaches, emphasizing the preference for one over the other.
Example: "The results should be ascertained rather than assumed to ensure accuracy."
Alternatives: "determined instead of" or "verified rather than".
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The comfort and ease of women themselves should be ascertained rather than prescribed by government.
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Thus, point estimates of risk are somewhat lower in case-ascertained, rather than family-ascertained studies, but because of the large confidence intervals, substantial overlap exists and many differences are not statistically significant.
To find rather than fabricate.
Learn rather than yearn.
For example, Bar-Oz et al found that the rate of congenital malformations after first-trimester exposure to itraconazole was 4 times higher when ascertained retrospectively rather than prospectively [ 22].
Further research would need to ascertain actual rather than reported nutrition practice.
As our case subjects were ascertained through offspring rather than affected parents, differential transmission from fathers and mothers as well as reduced risk in the same-sex offspring could theoretically result from the male preponderance among type 1 diabetes cases (32).
First, our scale was designed to ascertain depressive symptoms rather than depressive disorders and was missing 3 items from the original, validated depression rating scale.
Short trips tend to be under-recorded in travel surveys, some groups associated with high levels of cycling (such as young men and students) tend to have low response rates to surveys and many established physical activity questionnaires are designed to ascertain leisure activities rather than walking or cycling as modes of transport.
Further research should carry out direct observations to ascertain actual practices rather than parent reported practices of family dietary experiences in the community and this would help to further understand the complex barriers to healthy eating, in order to inform multi-level policy and intervention development.
How many of the 114,580 crowd had paid to see Morera rather than Maradona was never ascertained.
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