Sentence examples for evaluations in the absence of from inspiring English sources

In silico simulations of metagenomic data provide a means to perform these evaluations in the absence of gold-standard data sets and fully characterized communities.

Methodology: This evaluation is designed to both provide a formative evaluation of the Project, a provisional summative evaluation of the work of the mentors on the project and a basis for setting metrics and evaluation process for future evaluations (in the absence of a baseline survey when the project started).

Ana Marengo, a spokeswoman for the Health and Hospitals Corporation, which operates city's public hospitals, would not answer questions about where emotionally disturbed people were being taken for evaluation in the absence of Bellevue and Coney Island, which were not expected to reopen before February.

It also suggests graph transitivity and cluster density as measures of performance evaluation in the absence of a gold standard.

The analysis used a Bayesian formulation of the Hui-Walter latent class model for test evaluation in the absence of a "gold-standard" [ 26].

RA patients with a negative screening TST or IGRA may not need further evaluation in the absence of risk factors (Centers for Disease Control list) and/or clinical suspicion for TB.

However, field-based research was considered as a reasonable approach for the purposes of this economic evaluation, in the absence of real-life data at the time of design of this study.

22 Given that there were no significant differences between patient characteristics in the MM-009/-010 APEXAPEX trials, an indirect comparison between lenalidomide dexamethasone versus bortezomib was considered to be a feasible and reasonable approach for the purposes of an economic evaluation, in the absence of direct comparison studies.

The Hui-Walter paradigm for test evaluation in the absence of a "gold-standard" requires the presence of two (or more) tests evaluated in two (or more) populations and furthermore that: the prevalence of the disease is different within each population; the tests have the same properties across populations; and the tests must be conditionally independent given the disease status.

From 2007 to 2009 (last post-project sustainability evaluation), in the absence of any further inputs by Concern, basic capacity, operations, and health indicators were maintained, but municipalities identified critical gaps in the governance and strategic guidance of the model, despite weaknesses in human resources management and national level involvement" [ 37].

Although rib displacement into the spinal canal represents an infrequent complication of neurofibromatous spinal deformities, it must be excluded during preoperative radiological evaluation, even in the absence of neurological deficits.