Sentence examples for measures large numbers from inspiring English sources

Especially when variation in performance attributable to the physicians is small, which tends to be the case particularly for outcome and resource use measures, large numbers of patients per measure are needed to generate reliable measurements [ 63].

By measuring large numbers of cell features all at once with the new technology — called mass cytometry — the team could capture subtle transitions between cell states in, essentially, a high-resolution snapshot of the entire blood-forming system, he said.

Experiments such as CDMSII measure large numbers of particle interactions in their detectors in the hope of spotting one caused by a WIMP.

Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) is non-invasive, sensitive and quantitative and allows to measure large numbers of cells and samples in a reasonable amount of time [9].

As with translation, the energetics of rotation can be quantified by measuring large numbers of rotation events at varying temperatures.

Lessons have been learned about the statistical and study design precautions needed when applying such strategies of measuring large numbers of molecular components [ 20, 21].

Clinical trials today are designed to measure a small number of markers in many participants, but high-throughput methods allow us to measure large numbers of markers in smaller cohorts.

Alternative approaches to biomarker discovery, including assumption-free (-omic) methods that measure large numbers of a particular type of bio marker (for example, multiplex protein analysis, proteomics, or mRNA expression), will also be reviewed in this series.

Physician hand hygiene compliance increased due to a paired strategy of measuring large numbers of hand hygiene observations by a known observer and publically providing a physician report card to service chiefs.

Some of the difficulties inherent in gene or protein expression profiling in human disease include accounting for the genetic and environmental variability between patients and the potential for detecting chance associations when measuring large numbers of proteins or genes.

Now that it is technically and economically feasible to measure large numbers of DNA sequence variations in human genetics, the bioinformatics challenge is to identify and improve methods for detecting variants which are predictive of disease risk.