Sentence examples for definitive tests of from inspiring English sources

Because of the relatively small sample employed in this study, these secondary analyses were considered as a hypothesis-generating mechanism to guide future research, not as definitive tests of moderation and mediation.

Further work is now needed to better understand patients' views, of which aspects of the intervention were most helpful and to protocolise a final version of the intervention before undertaking definitive tests of its efficacy.

However, definitive tests of the predictions from sperm competition theory using empirical data have been mostly restricted to comparisons between related species with different levels of polyandry or gonadosomatic index.

First, comparisons of the performance of TUSK salmon at different pH levels (acidified/nonacidified) or relative to FARM/STEW salmon at nonacidified pH might not be definitive tests of local adaptation.

Nonetheless, these early studies tend to fare poorly in competition for conventional grant support precisely because they are preliminary and cannot serve as the definitive tests of new approaches.

And because controlled experiments to test policy prescriptions are impossible, we will never have a definitive test of macroeconomic measures.

"I don't know of anyone who has done definitive testing of all these different types of plastic containers to see what is leaching into food".

Fear underpins a definitive test of nerve in which the consequences of failure do not bear thinking about.

This calculated RDF is then compared to the experimental curve (which provides the definitive test of the validity of the model).

We do not need state-owned forests for this: good things happen without the state, and the outcome will be a definitive test of whether talk of the "big society" amounts to more than letting the market rip.

Yet in almost the same breath he acknowledged that a definitive test of neonicotinoids has yet to done, over two decades after their first use, and that the data does not exist to do a proper cost-benefit analysis.