Similarly, an estimated coefficient of 0.93 (P = 0.000) was observed for age, which showed 9.3% increase in terms of pastoralists' preference to use looping + feeding to cope up with the failure of rainfall.
In this region, shell technology may have been developed in preference to the use of stone or bone implements, perhaps because of the scarcity of suitable rock materials.
The most extreme versions of this reading find Machiavelli to be a "teacher of evil," in the famous words of Leo Strauss (1957, 9 10), on the grounds that he counsels leaders to avoid the common values of justice, mercy, temperance, wisdom, and love of their people in preference to the use of cruelty, violence, fear, and deception.
Therefore, the authors recommend a vaccination-for-all approach in preference to the use of PPE to protect HCWs.
These data were used in preference to frequency of occurrence data since the incorporation of mass measurements provides a more accurate view of diet (by preventing prey taken in small quantities being over-represented).
Data from the Collaborative study were used in preference to those of the Main study because BMI was measured in the Collaborative study, rather than self-reported.
The Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC, see later) recommended the use of the top tertile of lifetime analgesic dose (grams) as the measure for heavy analgesic exposure in preference to the definition of "substantial use" as it was defined in the study protocol before revision.
Wherever possible, we used continuous variables in preference to binary categorisations of variables due to their greater information content.
In the case of the number of medications taken, the separate variables for the number of prescribed and number of complementary medications were used in preference to the overall number of medications variable.
This technique was used in preference to Western blotting, because of the very small numbers of cells which grow from primary explants and because immunocytochemistry allows spatial information to be retained and permitted us to quantify the numbers of cells expressing the protein.
