Sentence examples for measures in place of from inspiring English sources

I welcome the use of the term ' patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures' in place of the ubiquitous and, usually inaccurate, use of ' quality of life measures'.

Due to the secrecy involved in this trade, there are no public health measures in place, so none of these sex-workers have a certificate verifying they are free of STDs.

Reliability of these measurements could have been improved by using a Gulick II tape measure in place of the umbilical tape used here.

Or it could use the payroll tax rate as its primary policy measure, in place of the fed funds rate.

Furthermore, the state's blue-ribbon panel of education experts lauded performance-based assessments and recommended perpetuation of waivers granted to schools using this alternative measure in place of the Regents exams.

There is correlation between symptoms and disability, which allows the latter to be measured in place of the former.

Our work differs from [6, 7] in that we have used the total distortion as an objective Quality of Experience (QoE) measure in place of the QoS criterion used in [6, 7].

Experimentation using the Wenner device on 529 samples was conducted by Kessler et al. (2005) at the FDOT to investigate whether resistivity can be used as a quality control measure in place of the RCPT.

One big benefit of using the affine arclength measure in place of the Euclidean arclength measure 1 + ϕ ′ ( t ) 2 d t has been its effect of mitigating degeneracies and it is believed that various uniform sharp estimates hold for a wide class of curves.

At its 23rd meeting, held in 2007, the CGPM recommended that the CIPM should continue to investigate methods to provide exact fixed values for physical constants of nature that could then be used in the definitions of units of measure in place of the IPK, thus enabling the transition from explicit unit definitions to explicit constant definitions.

As noted above, if an indirectly relevant outcome (such as blood pressure) is measured in place of an important outcome (cardiovascular disease), there will be less confidence in the impacts on the important outcome (for which the indirect outcome is a surrogate).