Sentence examples for major usefulness from inspiring English sources

Although sonography is sensitive in detecting thyroid nodules, it is not accurate in diagnosing malignancy; its major usefulness is in guiding thyroid biopsies.

Although the major usefulness of the present study may be its insight into the pathogenesis of NAFLD, it may in the future be useful in clinical practice for both hepatologists and diabetologists.

A well-known model for image quality is the Fidelity-Usefulness-Naturalness (FUN, [11]) that assumes the existence of three major dimensions: fidelity, usefulness, and naturalness.

The TAM posits that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness are major determinants of an individual's attitude toward using a new technology, and thus has an influence on intention to use it, which in turn, affects its actual use (Davis, Bagozzi & Warsaw, 1989).

But in his studies he gave the first major example of the usefulness of stellar statistics in that he could count the stars and interpret this data in terms of the extent in space of the Galaxy's star system.

Randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) have found repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to be effective for major depression, but its usefulness as an augmenting strategy for severe treatment-resistant depression (TRD) has yet to be firmly established.

From another viewpoint, a counseling therapist may see depression not as a biochemical illness or disorder but as "a species-wide evolved suite of emotional programs that are mostly activated by a perception, almost always over-negative, of a major decline in personal usefulness, that can sometimes be linked to guilt, shame or perceived rejection".

One major reason for the usefulness of VA in the GCS may be the appropriate modifications made in the adult questionnaire prepared by WHO and the INDEPTH [37], [38] to adapt it to the local setting.

Last but not the least, the major consideration of the usefulness of the IS6110-RFLP typing method is its specificity, which depends on the number of bands obtained.

There are, however, major concerns about its usefulness (Young, 2001), as for example in biological fluids the major contributor in most TAC assays is urate (>50% of the TAC activity).

However, the propensity for firefly luciferase transgene expression to be aggressively repressed in transgenic sugarcane is a major obstacle to the usefulness of luciferase as a reporter of promoter function in sugarcane [ 24].