Sentence examples for methods the former from inspiring English sources
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.
Although only 3 islands were surveyed on all 4 years (Table S3), the unbalanced nature of the data was not an issue for our approach because we estimated model parameters via maximum likelihood rather than least squared methods, the former not requiring a balanced design in time.
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).
Treatment options include oral anti-fungal medications and physical methods, the former often requiring lengthy courses, and responses vary. 1, 2 Here, we speculate that terbinafine dosed at 500 mg daily for the first 2 weeks, a less commonly prescribed higher daily dose, may have been beneficial.
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.
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).
As described in Method section, the former method is a semiparametric regression, but the latter method use a parametric cure regression.
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.
