Sentence examples for proposed as valid from inspiring English sources

Different pharmacokinetic-based approaches to enhance parasite exposure and the use of mixtures of drugs from different chemical families have been proposed as valid strategies to delay the development of anthelmintic resistance.

Whereas two-stage exchange is considered the best approach regardless of the infecting organism virulence and timing of infection [2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12], optimal management of low-grade TKA infection remains controversial, as open debridement with insert exchange and single-stage reimplantation have been proposed as valid surgical alternatives with the least impact.

Calculating autocorrelation coefficients has been proposed as valid method for estimating gait symmetry [ 18– 20].

Information and Communication Technology has recently been proposed as a valid aid to improve healthcare quality in chronic conditions.

It was recently proposed as a valid tool for constructing cellular structures by providing a compact representation of complex structures.

The Fear of Birth Scale has been proposed as a valid measure suitable for assessing fear of birth in an antenatal clinical context.

Probiotic products were proposed as a valid alternative to antibiotic therapies and are also useful for the prevention of infectious syndromes.

As matching directly on observable characteristics is difficult if the set of potentially relevant characteristics is large, matching on propensity scores has been proposed as a valid method (Rosenbaum and Rubin, 1983).

In this paper a combination of post-deposition heat treatment and self-ion bombardment is proposed as a valid candidate to gain control over the microstructure of (1 1 1) fiber textured thin silver films.

In view of the non-existence of high-quality post-mortem brain tissue samples to study CNS functioning in vivo, peripheral blood is being proposed as a valid surrogate for genetic studies of migraine [133], along with cerebrospinal fluid, saliva, platelets, plasma and urine to study neurotransmitter function.

The latter has been proven to be associated with high local tumour control rates (up to 80% for secondary lesions and over 90% for stage I NSCLC) and encouraging survival rates [45, 46, 47] and is being proposed as a valid alternative to surgery in selected patients.