The phrase "assumed close to" is not correct and may lead to confusion in written English.
It could be used in contexts where you want to express an estimation or approximation, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "The temperature was assumed close to the average for this time of year."
Alternatives: "estimated to be near" or "considered approximately".
Since then they have assumed close to total domination.
It paid $1 for the magazine and assumed close to $100 million in subscription liabilities.
Reservoir production rate is assumed close to fluid injection/breakthrough rate since both are expected to create a similar pressure differential in magnitude and direction.
Spectrum assumed close to 100% of HIV-positive women received some sort of prophylaxis while the ASSA2008 model and UCT model assumed 75 and 95% of HIV-positive women received prophylaxis, respectively.
The assumed sigmoid onset lag for increased exposure assumed close to zero excess risk within 10 years of increased exposure and a gradual rise to almost full excess risk by 20 years.
Since crystallographic resolution is an indicator of structural quality, i.e., structural models obtained at higher resolution were assumed closer to the native state and thus are less likely to include structural defects, we tested whether qe− could discriminate high-resolution from low-resolution structures.
Structural genesis of expected PT sites in parent g-As2Se3 is conditionally illustrated on Fig. 2a assuming close to ellipsoidal shape for free-volume voids.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that major state pension funds assume close to an eight percent return on their investments - ironically most of which are in U.S. corporate stocks and bonds.
This yielded total cDNA concentrations of 50 ng/μL for each sample, assuming close to 100% conversion.
Using our proposed stringent fracture definition, we found very good concordance between registered fractures in the NPR and true fractures with false positive rates of 0.6% and false negative rates of 6.5%, assuming close to complete coverage of NPR data as previously established in the NOREPOS study [ 19].
The size of the strip necking region is determined by balancing the stress intensity factor due to remote loading with that due to assumed closing forces equal to the ultimate tensile strength of the material distributed over the strip necking zone.
