Sentence examples for masked to avoid from inspiring English sources

During processing, samples were masked to avoid etching of the surface anti-reflection coatings.

The 6° region across the dip equator was masked to avoid the influence of the CM4 EEJ signature.

Readings of CM4(0°) and CM4 were acquired from the latitudinal profiles of Sq represented by the polynomial fitting of the CM4 model values after the region of ±3° around the dip equator was masked to avoid the influence of the CM4 EEJ signature.

The MR and PET images obtained as described above were masked to avoid contamination by misclassified voxels.

Once identified, the repetitive element regions were masked to avoid bias in further analysis.

All assessments are carried out by independent research assistants who have had no contact with the patient at other times and who are carefully masked to avoid disclosure of allocation (see below).

He and the worshipers wore hospital masks to avoid the thick cloud of dust that hovered over the town.

Chinese cities are regularly cloaked in a smoggy haze, with many residents donning masks to avoid taking in the toxic air.

Broadening the subject to the morality of war, Updike notes that in some religious systems merely to be alive is to kill: the Jains try to prevent such killing, he adds, "by wearing gauze masks to avoid inhaling insects".

In 2000 the Interior Department went ahead with the unusual general ban on snowmobiles, partly out of concern about the health of park rangers who had to wear gas masks to avoid the snowmobiles' noxious exhaust.

Dr. Neil W. Schluger, chief scientific officer for the World Lung Foundation, said people with asthma or lung disease could stay indoors or wear a mask to avoid irritation, but that there was little real danger, especially with the ash falling so far from the source.