Sentence examples for basis of absence of from inspiring English sources

The intervention studied, a second BCG vaccination, is widely used, although the World Health Organization does not recommend it on the basis of absence of evidence of protection or lack of protection.

The animals were selected on the basis of absence of any disease.

One dish was stained for Dia to probe its recruitment to FP4Mito-GFP-positive mitochondria, and the other for Ena to detect the presence of ena GC1 homozygotes in the culture on the basis of absence of Ena at mitochondria.

The 82 age-matched and sex-matched control volunteers (controls) were selected on the basis of absence of any obvious joint disease, though they were not screened for PD.

Failure of the CA125 response criteria to reflect a tumour shrinkage assessed by WHO criteria was observed in one patient, so the risk of discontinuing treatment on the basis of absence of CA125 response alone is low.

Remission is usually defined as a score of less or equal to 7 on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (17 item version) or less or equal to 10 on the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale: remission is therefore defined only on the basis of absence of symptoms.

Subjects were divided on the basis of the presence of absence of renal hyperfiltration (GFR ≥135 mL/min/1.73 m) (2, 3).

Metabolically healthy/abnormal was defined on the basis of absence or presence of MS. Overweight was defined as a body mass index (BMI) of ≥ 23 kg/m and obese was defined as a BMI of ≥ 25 kg/m.

The marching trend of stress-strain curves vanished after solvent saturation which has been explained on the basis of the absence of strain-induced crystallisation in swollen specimens.

Hypothesis (b), a role for the 5-HT1A receptor, was rejected on the basis of an absence of antagonism of the effects of citalopram on DOM by the selective 5-HT1A receptor antagonist, WAY-100635.

However, breaking of larger particles to generate smaller particles by the more aggressive agitation in Method 2 can apparently be ruled out on the basis of the absence of change in the size distribution of the large particles (200-1000 μm), and by the shape of the secondary peak in the size distribution (10-100 μm; Figure 2).