Sentence examples for compared to a relative from inspiring English sources

As for the special plight of women in prison, a writer in Slate has disquieting statistics: "According to a report (PDF) published by advocacy group the Women's Prison Association in 2009, the number of women in prison had risen by a stunning 823percentt since 1977, compared to a relative increase of about half that much in men.

Comparative results prove that the proposed asymmetric access protocol provides almost 11% throughput enhancement and significant delay deterioration as compared to a relative protocol with symmetric access rights over the MCA.

For example, using unadjusted data the relative risk of death for low exercisers was 2.39 (95% CI 1.18 4.81) for the fittest older people (with 0 deficits at baseline) compared to a relative risk of 2.11 (0.92–4.77) for older people who would be considered frail (those with 9 deficits at baseline, a Frailty Index of 0.225).

When being presented with an absolute difference most clinicians find such information easier to understand and more straight-forward to interpret as compared to a relative difference.

For example, in a sample of family practice patients, Hux and Naylor [ 10] found that patients were less willing to take a lipid-lowering drug when risks were described in an absolute compared to a relative risk format (42% versus 88%).

Dose response curves demonstrate the sensitivity of both cell lines in a time-dependent fashion, with LX2 cells being more sensitive to ATO treatment with a relative IC50 of 5.3 μM at 24 hrs of treatment compared to a relative IC50 of 32.7 μM for the HepG2 cells at the same incubation time.

Likewise, other island populations have fewer MHC alleles compared to a mainland relative [ 9, 30, 31].

Compared to a standard Savonius turbine, a relative increase of the power output coefficient by almost 40% is finally obtained at λ = 0.7.

Similarly, using a propensity score analysis to adjust for factors predicting initiation of therapy at a higher compared to a lower BUN, the relative risk in the high BUN group was 2.07 (95% confidence interval 1.30 to 3.29).

With a 12-month multiple of 25, this stock is still a relative bargain compared to a competitor like Strayer Education.

Compared to a 50-year-old, the relative transition rate was 2.51 for a 60-year-old, and for patients between 60 and 70 years of age the transition rate increased by a factor of 4.52.