Sentence examples for preferable scale from inspiring English sources

Agreement was achieved in the expert panel concerning the choice of the VAS as a preferable scale (Table 2).

We conclude from the results of our review that at present, none of these assessment scales is convincingly the most appropriate, and therefore preferable, scale for assessing pain in elderly people with dementia.

In that sense, pitch scaling is preferable over time scaling because it can shed light on possible inaccuracies in isolating amplitude or phase information from periodicity information.

Scenario studies have suggested that spatial targeting is preferable if landscape scale restoration is to be achieved, and that this should bring greater benefits than site-focussed activities but this has rarely been tested in practice.

A systems biology approach would be preferable for large scale validation.

Given that extraction of chloroplast DNA from a wide range of rainforest tree species is time consuming and would require optimisation across a range of taxa, this method using whole genomic DNA, sequenced on the Illumina platform, is preferable for large scale comparative studies of plants.

This work proved that the non-scaled features vector approach is preferable to the scaled one and that balanced class cardinalities during dataset building can give better performances.

Although visual analogue scales, or Borg scales, may be preferable in this population, Likert scales for reviews of large numbers of symptoms are a reasonable approach.

Liquid-cooling can provide better temperature control and is preferable for middle-scale transport applications, such as commercial vessels, because stack cooling can be achieved within smaller volumes.

While high cell densities are preferable for large-scale therapeutic biomolecule production in vitro, an immunoprotective barrier is most important for allogeneic pancreatic islet transplantation into patients.

The VAS is preferable to graded scales, since the steps between the descriptive terms are not known [ 26].