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A home-built NMR spectrometer can serve complementary roles to a sophisticated commercial spectrometer, should one comes across such new ideas that require heavy modification to hardware inside the spectrometer.
In this commentary, we will discuss the relative strengths and limitations of each form of research (see Table 1), and propose that well-designed RCTs and population-based observational studies can serve as complementary forms of research to ensure that the results of clinical trials translate into tangible benefits in the general population.
CEGMA uses a set of 248 core eukaryotic genes that are generally present in low copy number to assess the completeness and quality of a genome assembly, and can serve as complementary metric to the N50 length (Parra et al., 2009).
Measurements of gas production can serve as a complementary metric for assessing NAPL removal by providing a larger-scale measurement integrated over multiple smaller-scale NAPL locations.
This pattern documents that social learning through peer-to-peer information exchange can serve as a complementary and reinforcing pathway with technical learning that is stimulated by traditional outreach and extension programs.
Although the resolution of SAXS is inherently low since the complex protein structure is reduced to a one-dimensional orientationally averaged profile, it can serve as a complementary experiment to these high-resolution techniques.
Though further clinical research is required, the team is hopeful that the heat profiles can serve as a "complementary diagnostic tool" for cervical cancer screening, they write in the study.
In summary, this spatio-temporal Bayesian hierarchical model provides a measure for the probability of alert, and the freely available algorithm can serve as a complementary tool to current surveillance systems.
