Sentence examples for negative refer from inspiring English sources

"Positive" and "negative" refer to the ability and inability to grow, respectively.

*EHEC, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; positive and negative refer to the isolation of EHEC serotype O145:H– ; ND, no testing was done.

The positive and negative refer to presence of an abnormality in visual field or optic disc, rather than the outlook for the patient, though it may seem perverse that a positive test result actually translates to something which might be viewed as negative news for the patient.

The results show that by increasing the filling fraction, the A0 mode can be efficiently slowed down and the group velocity of the A0 modes can be tuned from the positive to the negative referring to the phase velocity.

The B0 angle is the latitude of the ecliptic in heliographic coordinates (i.e., inclination of the solar equator to the ecliptic) and has values in the range ±7°.25, positive (negative) referring to the north (south).

FN (False Negative) refers to the number of miRNAs being classified as non-differentially expressed by the platform being evaluated while being classified as either up-regulated or down-regulated by the TLDA results.

FP (False Negative) refers to the number of miRNAs being classified as either up-regulated or down-regulated by the platform being evaluated while being classified as non-differentially expressed by the TLDA results.

The term 'G-band negative' refers to those bands classified as 'gneg' in the file annotation while 'G-band positive' refers to 'gpos75' and 'gpos100' bands.

The term triple negative refers to the immunohistochemical classification, whereas the basal-like subtype is defined via gene expression microarray analysis.

The ER status can be positive (or negative) referring to the involvement (or not) of estrogen receptors, a group of proteins that may regulate the activity of many genes (Björnström and Sjöberg 2005), in the breast tumor.

Breast cancers associated with the Brca1 mutation carrier state in human are typically "triple negative" referring to their lack of expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors and absence of Her-2/ neu amplification.