Sentence examples for define and alter from inspiring English sources

Measures of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) have not only become popular investigative tools, but also have been used in an effort to define and alter models of health care delivery.

What had been a daring, if maybe hubristic, pair of ambitions either side of the war – ambitions to define and possibly alter the course taken by humanity as such – became by the 60s just the stuff of feel-good bromides.

Whereas differential proteomic analysis of breast tissue biopsies is complicated due to heterogeneity of cellular phenotypes contained in the sample [ 11], cells in culture represent a homogenous system, which can be to a certain extent defined and specifically altered.

Emergent themes were discussed between the authors and throughout the process of analysis, these themes were defined, focused and altered.

The hypothesis of the work was that the combination of working with defined mutants and altering CO2 availability for modulation of photosynthesis allows addressing the question of how selected nuclear and plastidic genes are regulated in Arabidopsis in response to redox, metabolite and energy signals.

Additionally, while the K208N mutation is well defined and does not alter the backbone or side chain conformation at position 208, it is possible that removal of the charged Lys also increases the flexibility of the loop region, facilitating the new interactions made by the G202E mutation and E207 that stabilize this region in the presence of methanol.

Rare homozygous and compound heterozygous variants were defined, and protein altering and/or putative 'disease causing' mutations, along with their functional annotation, were identified using ANNOVAR (Wang et al., 2010).

"These stories define an alter ego, or a second skin, which can be conceived as a transitional object".

Consequently, in the current state of knowledge, no child or young athlete should be exposed to DTC genetic testing to define or alter training or for talent identification aimed at selecting gifted children or adolescents.

We then defined total sets of ESE-disrupting changes (ESE/non-ESR+ESE/ESS) and ESE-altering changes (ESE-disrupting plus ESE/different ESE), and analogously defined ESS-disrupting and altering changes.

Sly Stone, the reclusive, long-vanished funk-rock pioneer whose potent recordings in the late 1960s and early '70s defined the era and altered the course of popular music, may be about to strut back into the public eye.