Sentence examples for defining normative from inspiring English sources

Recently, this methodology has been successfully applied to examine neonatal populations, defining normative patterns of large-scale neural network development in the maturing brain.

Far from defining normative constraints top-down or limiting the scope and influence of public participation and deliberation, fundamental rights are neither abstract ideals or, worse, rhetorical pleas, nor rules with a definite, closed and compelling meaning that concerns solely the relationships between citizens on the one hand, and their governments or judicial courts on the other.

Defining normative values for these tests in disease-free volunteers and patients with multiple sclerosis with and without a history of acute optic neuritis has been challenging (Petzold et al., 2010), but values for average LCLA and HCVA testing scores for monocular and binocular vision are now available for adult (Sakai et al., 2011) and paediatric (Waldman et al., 2014) multiple sclerosis.

In our manuscript, we define "normative behavior" or a "behavioral norm" as a situation in which behaviors are shared among a large majority of individuals.

We sought to define normative visual field (VF) values for children using common clinical test protocols for kinetic and static perimetry.

Huesmann and Guerra (1997) defined normative beliefs as the cognitions regarding the acceptability or unacceptability of certain behaviors, considering also emotional reactions.

This finding was independent of the index used to define normative need for orthodontic treatment (Table 2).

Not surprisingly, emotional ratings are often among the strongest covariates of HRQL; typically equal to, or stronger than, objectively defined (normative) indicators [ 34, 35].

Findings differed according to the indicator used to assess the impacts of oral conditions on participants' quality of life (overall score or prevalence of oral impacts) or the index used to define normative need for orthodontic treatment (IOTN or DAI).

To define normative practice patterns, the authors report the results of an online questionnaire addressed to members of the Connective Tissue Oncology Society CTOSS) regarding their views on the surgical management of pulmonary metastases in osteosarcoma.

Effect size for CS-OIDP attributed to malocclusion was moderate whereas effect size for OHIP-14 was nil when DAI was used to define normative need for orthodontic treatment.