Sentence examples for generally negative results from inspiring English sources

Lord Butler's report observed, rather naively:... we are surprised that neither policy-makers nor the intelligence community, as the generally negative results of Unmovic inspections became increasingly apparent, conducted a formal re-evaluation of the quality of the intelligence and hence of the assessments made on it.

37– 40 Despite these generally negative results, a systematic meta analysis of 12 randomized trials demonstrated a small, but statistically significant, survival advantage for patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy (a 5% increase in 2-year survival from 15%to20%0%).

However, selectively testing patients with more risk factors, which tend to cluster in poorer neighborhoods, may lead to bias towards falsely positive differences instead of our generally negative results.

Norwegian researchers [ 55] report generally negative results for 2 g/day of ethyl-EPA, vitamin C (1000 mg/day) and vitamin E (364 mg/day) for 16 weeks as add-on therapy of psychotic exacerbation in chronic schizophrenia patients.

The trials which included out-patient individual or group training following discharge tended to report between group differences with generally negative results [ 16, 19, 21] however the temptation to count up the number of these negative trials, rather than await future high quality trials, should be avoided.

On the other hand, the generally negative results of the current study concur with those of Harris et al. [ 15] who in the main did not find any significant relationships between telomere length and a number of cognitive tests in an older sample of 79 year olds.

Evaluation of clinical significance of MEK1 and TP53 expression has generally brought negative results, confirming that observations from cell line studies cannot be directly referred to clinical situations.

Although lung cancer cases in serological studies had higher EBV seropositivity than healthy controls (Desgranges and de-The, 1979; Roy et al, 1994), previous studies of EBV in lung tumour tissue have generally produced negative results, except in rare cases of lymphoepithelioma-like carcinomas (LELCs) (Chu et al, 2004; Lim et al, 2009).

The evidence for an increased risk of lung cancer in exposed workers is not conclusive; for example, studies of metalworkers have generally shown negative results (Calvert et al, 1998; NIOSH, 1998), whereas increases have been observed in the majority of studies of workers in the printing industry (Tolbert, 1997).

The results show that: (i) measures of community phylogenetic diversity and dispersion are generally more sensitive to loss of resolution basally in the phylogeny and less sensitive to loss of resolution terminally; and (ii) the loss of phylogenetic resolution generally causes false negative results rather than false positives.

Capacity utilization had strong negative results generally attributed to unused or reduced firm production capacity which is mainly due to low level of domestic competitiveness and/or labor-intensive foreign direct investments with few high-tech firms.