The phrase "avoid altered" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to suggest avoiding changes or modifications, but it is incomplete without additional context.
Example: "To maintain the integrity of the data, we should avoid altered records."
Alternatives: "steer clear of changes" or "refrain from modifications.".
Patients with chronic uncontrolled disease (including uveitis) for more than 3 years were excluded to avoid altered personality secondary to the disease.
To avoid altered hydrodynamics of the system, an oxygen-sensitive fluorescent sensor spot was investigated to measure DOT in a fermentation with E. coli BL21 pET28a.
Estradiol concentrations were not included in the matrix because they were measured on a separate subset of fish (separate subsets were used to avoid altered sex steroid concentrations due to capture stress).
In classical host recognition experiments the Colorado potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata has been shown to recognize and avoid altered ratios of (Z -3- and (E)-2-GLVs emitted by its host plant Solanum tuberosum (Visser and Avé, 1978).
It doesn't just avoid altering small details, it includes many that just don't work on film.
Mr. Takemori is mindful of each shift, both watching and feeling the changes to avoid altering the brush's shape too much.
Visitors to the Adirondacks High Peaks are reminded to carry out even organic wastes like orange peels to avoid altering animal diets, and to strain their cooking water through leaves or paper, and then carry out the paper.
To avoid altering the pH value too drastically for the measurement the samples were again diluted 1 10 with 100 mM sodium acetate buffer pH 3.8 (measurement buffer).
In the case of Cr VI) contamination, to avoid altering the proportions, the Cr6+ was reduced to Cr3+ in a preliminary step, and the same procedure applied.
One should, thus, simply avoid altering the logic too much, and one can even stick to a classical notion of logical consequence.
Methods that are designed to define the ends of an RNA molecule, for example, oligonucleotide ligation, avoid altering the transcript sequence but can usually fulfill only one objective per experiment (e.g., define the 5′ or the 3′ end).
