"The changes we are making will restore confidence in GCSEs … they will be more rigorous, with deeper subject content and match the best equivalent exams in the world".
In short, computer measures of attention or executive function reported in all the studies we examined had effect size findings that were at best equivalent to, and in almost all instances inferior to, effect size differences we observed on the No-4's test.
However, lixisenatide seemed to be less efficient or at best, equivalent to exenatide and liraglutide in reducing HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose, and bodyweight.
The ESP and ENP groups could not cost less and were at best equivalent with the doctor group in terms of cost.
From a funder perspective in primary and secondary care, ESPs and ENPs are at best equivalent and could not cost less than routine care.
I mean words like "sang-froid" or "schadenfreude", that exactly fulfil a linguistic need, but unaccountably never got invented in English and so were accepted in their native form as soon as they were introduced.The best-known equivalent in Portuguese is, I guess, saudade, which means something like nostalgia, but is more explicitly a mixture of pleasure and pain.
At worst, his losses were limited; at best, his gains were enormous.The equivalent in investment terms is to hold mostly ultra-safe assets and have a sliver of wealth in something that offers a huge pay-off if there is a positive surprise.
The question of how best to move around this kind of landscape is thus equivalent in scientific discovery to determining in a principled or formal manner what is the 'best' experiment to do next.
It is obvious that (3.13) and (3.14) are equivalent in which the constant factors are all the best possible.
Especially because the available treatment options are equivalent in palliative treatment, this concept deserves extensive attention when proposing palliative chemotherapy or best supportive care.
