Sentence examples for discard rates from inspiring English sources

The number of older kidney donors has more than tripled, and discard rates are less than a third of that in the United States, said Dr. Ulrich Frei, a German nephrologist who has compared the two systems.

The relationships between the variables and discard rates are initially delineated by stakeholders through surveys, and included to the model as priors.

Archaeological localities with higher artifact discard rates relative to raw material availability may represent an emphasis on activities associated with higher edge attrition (e.g. skinning or disarticulation).

Increasing discard rates and the potential for a significant increase of the spawning stock and the yield of the fishery are important reasons to further improve the selectivity of the fishery and to asses the potential next step in this process.

Due to generally high discard rates in Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) fisheries, a discard ban coming up and to the cod recovery plan in several areas, selective sorting grids have been tested in many areas and are specified by legislation for use in the Kattegat and Skagerrak area bordering Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

What little data we have suggest that jurisdictions have widely variable numbers of provisional ballots and markedly different ballot discard rates.

Dr. Frei said he found the discard rate in the United States "quite disturbing".

The annual discard rate of 3 to 4 percent of the 250 million vehicles on the road is low, too.

This high discard rate may help explain the thousands upon thousands of rock artifacts that have been found.

These modifications were developed by the fishing industry in response to public concerns on the relatively high levels of discards in their fishery (ca. 70% discard rate).

For the grid dataset (Fig. 6A), 3B yielded 36,756 discarded positions and 36,311 retained positions, resulting in a total of 73,067 positions with a discard rate of 50.3%.