Sentence examples for more practical index from inspiring English sources

This is a more practical index for assessing severity of pneumonia illness at presentation because it is easy and quick to assess the severity, where blood urea measurement is omitted from the CURB-65 scale [ 24].

On the other hand, waist circumference (WC), a more direct measure of the abdominal accumulation of fat [ 15], and waist-to-height ratio (WHR), a more practical index for screening the risk of obesity-related disorders that could be applied uniformly to all ethnicities and ages [ 16], are also important and reliable obesity indexes [ 16- 18].

Therefore, more "practical" indices of fit were used to evaluate each model's fit as well as to compare alternative models, according to the recommended cut-offs [ 33, 34].

WHtR is a more practical anthropometric index to find higher metabolic risks in normal and overweight Japanese men and women than WC and BMI [ 30].

The Modified DDE index was claimed to be a more practical and comparable index in epidemiological studies.

The construction of the restricted eigen index does not require economic values between lactation milk and persistency and thus is more practical than the unrestricted eigen index which requires information on the economic values of both.

To make the procedure more practical, we restricted the number of investigated index joints per patient to 4 (knees and ankles) rather than the 6 (knees, ankles and elbows) used conventionally for radiographic joint scoring in patients with haemophilia.

This performance index can be interpreted as a generalization of the well known H∞/∞ and H∞/min performance indices and gives a more practical performance evaluation of fault detection filters.

However, experience with Type 2 diabetes shows genetic testing to be an expensive method of predicting disease risk, with markers such as body mass index and family history found to be of more practical predictive value.

Therefore, some substitute index of VAT, such as chubby cheeks and NC, will be more practical to predict the risk of CVD in primary care clinics.

This study aims to explore more practical and useful equation for Em estimation using Rock Quality Designation (RQD) and point load index values.