Sentence examples for instruments compared to the from inspiring English sources

Banks that are listed in the stock markets are less subject to asymmetric information and, thus, they are more likely to issue capital instruments, compared to the rest of banks.

The VPO was a more sensitive instrument compared to the small EW psychrometer when using 10 μL of solution in the standard dish.

Receiver-operator curve (ROC) analysis was conducted to examine the diagnostic utility of the screening instrument compared to the CIDI [ 40].

Although there were a higher proportion of studies using the HUI instrument compared to the EQ-5D instrument, the HUI instrument was primarily used in the evaluation of cancer patients.

KOOS was developed for younger and/or more active patients with knee injury and knee osteoarthritis and has in previous studies on these groups been the more responsive instrument compared to the WOMAC.

However, Tier II also had the lowest retention rates, with 64% and 28% of northern and central California, respectively, not fully completing the survey instruments compared to 3-12% for the other Tiers.

The cost of buying insurance against either country defaulting on their debt – through so-called credit default swaps – hit record levels as the risk of holding these instruments compared to holding German bonds, regarded as the safest bet in Europe, increased.

The PROMIS proxy sample scored similar or better on the other proxy instruments compared to normative samples.

Cote and Buckley reviewed 64 construct validation studies from a range of disciplines (marketing, psychology/sociology, other business, education) and found 40% of observed variance in attitudes (subjective variable) was due to method (i.e. the influence of measurement instrument), compared to 30% due to the trait itself [ 48].

Anxiety scores were similar for both groups while awaiting the biopsy procedure, with anxiety scores trending lower in the ED group: 41.2 on a prostate-specific anxiety instrument compared to 51.7 in the UC group (p = 0.13).

Actical accelerometers have been found to have higher intra-instrument and inter-instrument reliability compared to the other two commonly used accelerometers (Actigraph and RT3)[ 22].