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Discover LudwigThe phrase "higher or lesser" is not correct or usable in written English, as the two words are not related
In English, "higher" and "lesser" are not comparative forms of the same word. The comparative form of the word "high" is "higher" and the comparative form of the word "low" is "lower". For example: The mountain is higher than the valley.
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However, it is very important to take into account the ionic strength of the culture medium, since this parameter influences surface charge and, hence, the higher or lesser extent of electrostatic repulsions.
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Because the IDW is a weighted distance average, the average cannot be greater than the highest or lesser than the lowest input.
"Should the government pay higher wages or lesser wages?
In disks, higher throughput or lesser overall I/O time does not directly imply better I/O response times.
As Factor VIII is stabilized by vWF, this may reflect higher production or lesser degradation of vWF in AA women [46].
The dead biomass can bind metals at levels higher, equivalent to or lesser than live biomass depending on the method used to kill the biomass (Zhu et al. 2010).
A zeta potential higher than 30 mV or lesser than −30 mV is indicative of a stable system [3].
There's no question that some people may face higher premiums for equal or lesser benefits than they have enjoyed in the past.
Of some controversy however is whether people with higher intelligence employ greater or lesser activation in these brain regions.
Sadly, in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe, the war on terror resulted in the deaths of far more civilians than suspected terrorists – whether high profile like Bin Laden or lesser and unknown known figures operating in the name of al-Qaida.
For IS 6110, a total of 251 candidate insertion sites have been obtained (Additional file 16), classified as of high (160), medium (18) or lesser (73) confidence.
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