The application of a novel approach (EF method) instead of the classical qualitative one (MO method) led to significant changes in the histological reports, enabling the distinction of patients with different evolution outcomes of the duodenal damage.
This constitutes developmental system drift of a quantitative kind: instead of changes in the qualitative nature of interactions (e.g., a switch from activation to repression), we observe neutral or compensatory evolution through tuning of regulatory interaction strengths.
Therefore, our experimental section will be focused exclusively on a performance analysis instead of a qualitative analysis of the obtained numerical results.
It is often an elemental feature of neoplasia that instead of major qualitative changes in the chemico-molecular make-up of the cell as a whole, the activity of one or more critical player is 'modified' from being normal.
Instead of a qualitative decision by the father and son, the bonuses became completely quantitative: Half of a manager's year-end bonus was now based on his unit's profitability, the other half on the profitability of the overall business.
The rates of cryotherapy failure in Kenya and Peru were not systematically measured before use of the conditioner, but instead the qualitative data were retrospective and anecdotal.
"[It's] not what do i think of your product, but what do your customers think of your product," he said, and how can you show that in a quantifiable, numbers-based way, instead of by qualitative pitches and customer stories.
Instead of making qualitative comparisons to experimental data, it would be ideal to test our models quantitatively at cellular resolution.
Using quantitative endophenotypes instead of qualitative case/control status as the phenotype for a genetic study may reduce heterogeneity in clinical diagnosis, thus increasing power to detect genetic associations [ 146].
This approach builds a testable model to guide the discovery of cell reprogramming recipes instead of depending on qualitative guesswork and trial and errors, and thus, will pave the road to more efficient reprogramming protocols for regenerative medicine.
