Sentence examples for procedure is a valid from inspiring English sources

In patients who are not fit enough for GA, a moderate conscious sedation procedure is a valid option [ 63 ]. e. Pre-procedural assessment scans should be less than 2 weeks old (strong consensus) The mean volume doubling time of colorectal liver metastases is 100 days therefore recent studies are needed for patient selection.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he feels that "the N.S.A. revelations are very troubling," and he asks, "Why should the government have a database on millions of people if we are innocent?" But he also says, somewhat surprisingly, that the stop-and-frisk procedure "is a valid law enforcement tool, and to get rid of it makes absolutely no sense".

The authors showed that the AMIC technique as a single-stage procedure is a valid procedure for improvement in patients concerned by chondral defects.

Based on such moderate correlations, they surprisingly concluded that 'the cloze procedure is a highly valid measure of reading comprehension' (p. 196).

Although this method appears to be very reliable, there is no certainty that the procedure is an accurate or valid measurement of the actually anatomical thoracic kyphosis.

Results of the pilot study undertaken and the practical application of the procedure suggest that this is a valid one for anthropometric data acquisition.

Using the xylose disappearance as a measure for determining the residence time is a valid procedure as it was established beyond any doubt that the xylose disappearance rate is not affected by loss reactions to be discussed later.

Moreover, the procedure proved that μ-CT is a valid tool for capturing the peculiar details of the foam structure, thus to overcome the limits associated to the use of economical, but simplified, geometric models.

As an example, (Stansfield and Hansen's 1983, pp. 29, 31) review of relevant literature concludes that cloze is a valid procedure because cloze tests in different studies have correlated highly with other lengthy measures of second language proficiency.

This is a valid procedure since the libraries are independently obtained from the same organ in approximately the same tissue state (normal or cancerous).

The United States Supreme Court has ruled by a narrow margin that collecting a person's DNA upon arrest is a valid police procedure and is not equivalent to an unreasonable search and seizure.