Sentence examples for defined to increase from inspiring English sources

The Falconer bill has been narrowly defined to increase its chances of success.

The cut-off was arbitrarily defined to increase the previously mentioned specificity.

Hence, place fields were randomly permuted and the single cell frequency was defined to increase within the new place field.

The cut-off of 10% was arbitrary defined to increase the robustness of the candidate gene selection.

As divergence between species was often the cause of unsuccessful amplifications, several copy-specific primer pairs were defined to increase the chances of amplification in the sixteen studied species.

It is defined to monotonically increase as the (expected) accuracy of the model decreases.

For the present study, OR ≥2.0 or ≤0.5 was defined to be increased or decreased, respectively.

Three index levels were defined to capture increasing degrees of comorbidity: no comorbidity (Charlson Index 0), comorbidity level 1 (Charlson Index 1 2), and comorbidity level 2 (Charlson Index > 2) [ 7, 8].

The 'responsiveness to therapeutic test with oral iron' (gold-standard) was defined to an increase of at least 0.55 Z-score in haemoglobin after 4 weeks of treatment and a total dose of 1200 mg of iron.

In Indonesia and Malawi, needs assessments were translated into strategic plans with defined targets to increase quantity, quality and distribution of staff.

Exclusion criteria were defined beforehand to increase the homogeneity of study samples within the specific care settings and across units of analyses, and to prevent extra burden of the survey being imposed on the severely ill.