Sentence examples for likelihood of acquisition from inspiring English sources

An increased risk of HIV transmission within abusive relationships and a greater likelihood of acquisition of HIV infection by violent husbands have been reported (8, 9).

The likelihood of acquisition of nosocomial ARB during or shortly after therapy with different antibiotic agents is still unclear and is often confounded by scarce data on antibiotic usage at the individual patient level.

Residing in a nursing home where most residents are at high risk for MRSA may increase the likelihood of acquisition even for residents who lack these specific risk factors.

The high surface sequence variability of CIDRα1s, driven by the selection pressure to avoid immune detection, will reduce the likelihood of acquisition of cross-reactive antibodies that prevent EPCR binding and erythrocyte sequestration.

Conversely, DNA chains within repressed chromatin architecture would manifest decreased responsiveness to invading RNA molecules, slow kinetics of DNA strand displacement, and decreased likelihood of acquisition of a PSDS of DNA double helix (Lee J, Hwang M, Landon PB, Lal R, Glinsky GV, in preparation).

We estimate the likelihood of acquisitions for the universe of IRRC firms (8,951 firm-year observations).

We thus test whether the interactions of ATPs with excess cash, industry competition, and public pension fund ownership are associated with the likelihood of acquisitions.

However, we do not find evidence that the likelihood of acquisitions is associated with interaction effects among ATPs, excess cash, industry competition, and public pension fund ownership.

Several studies report frequent acquirers' poor performance.10 If higher excess cash and weak governance increase the likelihood of acquisitions, and these frequent acquisitions are associated with lower bidder returns, our results may reflect the effect of frequent acquisitions rather than the interaction effects of ATPs with the governance environment.

Due to the expensive nature of terahertz imaging systems and the likelihood of long acquisition times, there is ample scope for employing image processing techniques, without increasing the system cost nor image acquisition time.

"We see an increasing likelihood of an acquisition," said Jaap Meijer, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort in London.