Sentence examples for introduction of missing from inspiring English sources
To prevent the introduction of missing values in transformed variables, concentrations of 0 ng/mL for fetal sFlt-1 (n = 29; 0.8%) and 0 pg/mL for fetal PlGF (n = 154; 0.1%) were imputed by random draws from the left tail of a normal distribution (Helsel 2005) (corresponding to values < 0.024 ng/mL and < 3.5 pg/mL, respectively).
Gene annotation was performed with the automated organellar annotation software MFannot (http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/cgi-bin/mfannot/mfannotInterface.pl, last accessed August 23, 2013) (for more information on MFannot see Burger et al. [2013]), followed by manual inspection for the presence of frame shifts and the introduction of missing gene features.
Introduction of the missing values enables propagating (9) by means of a particle filter, where the filter relies on a Gaussian importance density (12).
In order to direct the yeast glycosylation pathway towards the synthesis of human-like structures two major issues had to be envisaged: (i) elimination of yeast-specific glycosylation reactions and (ii) introduction of the missing compounds of the human pathway.
Such opening was covered with a curtain (to avoid subjects looking inside it) and could be closed using a sliding door manipulated by E. In order to facilitate the surreptitious introduction of the "missing" pellet inside the box (during unexpected trials), a horizontal sliding door was constructed on a false roof of the box (9 cm high from its top part).
In both nac and pfe mutants, introduction of the missing cell type by blastula transplantation restores normal stripe formation, thus indicating that nac and pfe act cell-autonomously in melanophores and xanthophores, respectively (Maderspacher and Nüsslein-Volhard, 2003; Parichy and Turner, 2003).
Evaluating patient eligibility based on partly missing data risks missing eligible patients and the introduction of selection errors if the distribution of missing data is not completely random.
Unnecessary referrals and diagnostic testing need to be balanced against the risk of missing a diagnosis and introduction of an unacceptable long diagnostic delay.
Similarly, though the introduction of reporting race/color of patients is an important advance, the high frequency of missing data limit precision in the reporting of this characteristic.
For the past two months, I've been scurrying around, going from Lakeside's college writing class to the University of Washington for its computer science introduction, narrowly missing the start of two Rainier Scholars Leadership Development retreats, and then ending up back at my school for application boot camp.
