The phrase "assignments by means of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the method or process through which assignments are given or completed.
Example: "Students will receive their assignments by means of an online portal that tracks their progress."
Alternatives: "assignments through" or "assignments via".
We present a mechanism where the private data of the users, sensitive intermediate values and the final clustering assignments are protected by means of encryption.
The original species and taxa for the random metagenome referenced in the text show a very heterogeneous composition, and are seen in Additional file 2. The goodness of the assignments was estimated by means of the precision and recall measures (Precision = TP/TP+FP; Recall = TP/TP+FN, where TP: true positives; FP: false positives; FN: false negatives).
Random assignment was performed by means of numbered cards in envelopes for the intervention and the control group, and was stratified by age group (<, ⩾60 years).
Grid systems follow a new paradigm of distributed computing that enables the coordination of resources and services that are not subject to centralized control, can dynamically join and leave virtual pools, and are assigned to users by means of an explicit assignment functionality.
Firstly, a pre-test/post-test design was used with three instruments, namely a valid and reliable academic literacy test, a writing assignment which was assessed by means of a rubric, and a quantitative assessment of the same writing assessment.
Study-group assignment will be performed by means of randomized permuted blocks of eight.
All analyses have been carried out with standard tools present in the GROMACS MD package v. 3.3.3 or in-house written codes, except for secondary structure assignment, which was performed by means of the DSSP program [37].
However, since unambiguous lineage assignment was still possible by means of this fragment (Additional file 2: Table S2; Figure 1B) we included these specimens in further statistical analyses.
All backbone resonance assignments were confirmed or completed by means of a 'sequential walk' through the 3D HNCA HNCB) and CBCA CO NH data.
