Sentence examples for background utilities from inspiring English sources

Many software programs, including those from Intuit, Symantec and Microsoft, also contain background utilities.

The malady arises from the installation of software that brings with it background utilities, called applets, designed to make the main program more convenient or reliable, to help it load faster, or to enable it to link to the vendor's Web site.

The internet will be a background utility, noticeable only in its absence.

Background utility values for the model were based upon utilities from a U.K. general population[ 29].

Utility values by age and gender are presented in Table 3. Utility gains from IVIG treatment were added to the background utility values, while utility losses from corticosteroid related adverse events were subtracted from background utility values.

Therefore, the lower the assumed background utility level, the lower the gain in utility achievable from preventing a given SRE.

This is because the utility of time associated with an SRE was estimated using a multiplicative model, in which the background utility level is multiplied by utility decrements adapted from those first initially proposed by Hillner et al. [ 18].

The most sensitive variables were the assumptions regarding the utility of metastatic RCC without SRE (which is used as the background utility), and the cost of SREs (in particular the costs of non-vertebral fractures and spinal cord compression).

As the results of the univariate sensitivity analysis showed, the background utility of patients with RCC and bone metastases (but without concurrent SRE) is an important driver of cost-effectiveness.

Moreover, as detection scores reflect both the target and ion background, the utility of a highly averaged performance parameter for detecting a specific target is limited.

With this regulatory background and future, utilities cannot afford to use unproven processes that pose any risk to treatment quality.