Sentence examples for preferred instruments from inspiring English sources

The advent of discount brokerage commissions, along with a variety of debt securities sold in $25 preferred instruments, has given fixed-income investors tremendous flexibility in diversifying their portfolios and risks.

Today, antisocial behaviour orders, curfews and dispersal orders, rather than the copper's boot, are the preferred instruments for clearing unwanted people from the city centre.

He left Trinidad before the steel bands that are now so closely associated with calypso music really took hold, though he remembers as a child hearing the pans being played in the backyards of Charlotte Street, Port of Spain, and the shango and "tambo-bambo" music (played on various lengths of bamboo) that were their precursors and the preferred instruments of popular music at the time.

Factor analysis and linear mixed-effects model analyses showed that individually the Exit Interview-25 (EXIT-25), Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale (BDS), and Golden Stroop test were the preferred instruments for measuring changes in executive function in the sample.

By using preferred instruments to determine health related quality of life, the quality adjustment factors are derived from changes in health states, and not from outcomes that go beyond health [ 21, 22].

"Microsoft won't lose money on this deal because they have a preferred instrument.

However, comparative studies have not been able to conclude about the preferred instrument.

The scales have shown similar reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change, and no conclusion about the preferred instrument has been drawn.

It is generally recognised that the sensitivity of the QALY can vary across different disease areas [ 4], that different methods of utility measurement yield different results and there is no clear consensus as to which instrument is the preferred method for utility elicitation [ 19]; although NICE have opted for the EQ-5D as a preferred instrument.

There have been a number of reviews since the early 1990s of HR-QOL measures administered to patients with HIV infection, and no consensus has emerged on a clearly preferred instrument for use either in clinical trials or in clinical care [ 13- 20].

Mr. Catalano said he prefers instruments whose keys feel most comfortable to the middle finger of his right hand, the one he severed while working on a car engine when he was 16.