Sentence examples for predominant system of from inspiring English sources

According to the US Central Intelligence Agency's Factbook (2007), the International System of Units has been adopted as the official system of weights and measures by all nations in the world except for Burma, Liberia and the United States, while the NIST has identified the United States as the only industrialised country where the metric system is not the predominant system of units.

The National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) is the current standard and predominant system for describing the severity of adverse events and is used worldwide, especially in cancer clinical trials [1, 2].

Cases were assigned a clinical syndrome depending on the predominant system involved, on the basis of information provided by the physician.

This would be the predominant system until the eighteenth century.

The predominant mating system of ungulate species is polygynous [ 25] and conspicuous weapons such as horns for Bovidae and antlers for Cervidae have been sexually selected in this group because they provide an advantage for males in gaining matings and ultimately increase fitness [ 23].

In the twenty years since mtDNA mutations were first associated with human disease it has become apparent that the central nervous system is one of the predominant systems affected, especially in those patients with a severe phenotype.

The selection of cultivars for the predominant cropping systems of small farms in the tropics depends to a large extent on the information obtained by testing their performance across the different systems.

This parameter corresponds to the number of breeding pairs because of the predominant monogamous breeding system of this species.

Bile salt export pump (BSEP) is the predominant bile salt efflux system of hepatocytes.

BSEP, an ABC transmembrane transporter (ABCB 11), was the predominant bile salt efflux system of hepatocytes and mediates the cellular excretion of numerous conjugated bile salts [ 14].

Given the predominant expression in the central nervous system of the H3R, one of the four identified histamine receptors, the possibility exists that signaling through this particular histamine receptor may control the development of Plasmodium-associated brain pathology.