Sentence examples for method the former from inspiring English sources
Finally, because of a lower detection limit of anodic stripping voltammetric measurement compared to the potentiometric method, the former technique was applied for determination of silver (I) ion in real samples.
It combines one of the immersed-boundary methods, the DFFD (direct forcing fictitious domain) method with the spectral element method; the former is employed for efficiently capturing the two-way FSI (fluid structure interaction) and the geometric flexibility of the latter is utilized for any possibly co-existing stationary and complicated solid or flow boundary.
Confirmation bias would seek to prove the hypothesis rather than disprove it - the latter is the scientific method; the former is an error.
Comparatively, GeneOhm assay was significantly more sensitive than the culture method: the former demonstrated sensitivity of 100% (36/36) and specificity of 90,4% (190/210).
We chose the symmetric method for motif comparisons in addition to the standard asymmetric method because the former method would take into account the song syntax (i.e. syllable order) as well as the acoustic features of individual syllables.
As described in Method section, the former method is a semiparametric regression, but the latter method use a parametric cure regression.
Between these methods the former one is selected since it also provides island-mode stability.
As demonstrated above, topology optimisation and shape optimisation are complementary methods: the former for drafting, the latter for fine-tuning.
One such approach is the differentiation between distribution-based and anchor-based methods, the former including those based on sample variability and measurement precision.
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), acupuncture and moxibustion are two inseparable therapeutic methods; the former stimulates the acupoint with a needle whereas the latter with heat generated by burning of moxa (Artemisia Vulgaris).
Experimental results with practical defective bearing vibration data have shown that the proposed method outperforms the former SR methods and exhibits a good application prospect in rolling element bearing fault diagnosis.
