Sentence examples for assess firstly from inspiring English sources

Logistic regressions were used to assess firstly factors associated with contact and secondly factors associated with response to the postal questionnaire among contacted couples.

The study used a 2 × 2 factorial design to assess firstly whether capecitabine gave better QoL improvement compared with 5-FU, reserving oxaliplatin combination for second line treatment.

It is therefore important to assess, firstly, the risks for transfer of OC resistance mutations that emerge in avian influenza virus into influenza virus spreading in the human population, and, secondly, the possible influence of this phenomenon on treatment efficiency.

We constructed a phase III randomised trial using a 2 × 2 factorial design to assess, firstly, our standard dose of 64 Gy compared to the escalated dose of 74 Gy and, secondly, to compare a radiation 'safety margin' of 1.0 cm to that of 1.5 cm.

In this paper, individual DEChN-F and TOChN-F were prepared and assessed firstly.

The effectiveness of this approach is assessed firstly through frequency domain analysis using as excitation a stationary harmonic load applied on the rail.

So, the capabilities of various inlet boundary conditions with related modelling methodologies in constructing equilibrium ABL are assessed firstly through cases of ABL flows over uniformly rough terrain, to ascertain that there are no substantial changes in the prescribed profiles throughout the whole computational domain.

In the present study we assessed firstly, the quantitative and phenotypic modifications of peripheral blood DC, and secondly the numbers, phenotype and function of Treg from patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis in remission or in acute phase compared with age matched healthy individuals.

Inclusion criteria were assessed firstly on title and abstract (if available) and later on the full-text.

As suggested by the TGCS, we assessed firstly whether overall institutional CD rates were correlated with relative sizes or CD rates in specific groups.

Data quality is assessed firstly by the veracity of the user's details (e.g. the data is treated as the weakest possible evidence of a disease notification when the report only contains the user's name).