Sentence examples for ascertaining the negative from inspiring English sources

Details of the criteria for ascertaining the negative symptoms in the CRIS-NSS application are described in further detail elsewhere; 16 briefly, applications were developed for 10 items: poor motivation, blunted or flattened affect, poor eye contact, emotional withdrawal, poor rapport, social withdrawal, poverty of speech, mutism, apathy and concrete thinking.

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

The criteria used for ascertaining the establishment of BSD were negative cerebral perfusion pressure for 30 min, loss of corneal and papillary reflexes, and no cough on bronchoscopy.

This effect has been shown by two types of studies: 1) longitudinal studies ascertaining the impact of positive or negative perceptions that elderly people have of aging; and 2) empirical studies showing the immediate effects (within a few minutes) on elderly people of the activation (implicit or explicit) of positive or negative stereotypes.

Ascertaining the biochemical basis of indirect negative regulation by ErbB2 is also likely to be worthwhile, since our data imply that the high responsiveness of HER2amp tumors to anti-receptor therapy may be a function not only of the addiction to the ErbB2 oncogene, but also of the suppression of other signaling pathways that might function as resistance mechanisms in other tumor types.

Consequently, it was not possible to ascertain whether the negative association for myocardial infarction represented a decrease in risk on hot days or a less pronounced increase compared with other mortality causes.

Future research should focus on ascertaining the precise timing and nature of the maternal symptoms that have the greatest negative impact on offspring.

'The exercise of ascertaining the facts was a serious one".

Direct evidence ascertaining the relationship between age and infection with Francisella in humans is difficult to interpret as some studies indicated a positive correlation between Francisella infection and age and others a negative one [23], [24], [25].

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.