Sentence examples for proxy of study from inspiring English sources

We assigned an exposure assessment quality classification to each study based on an a priori defined classification scheme and used this classification as an additional proxy of study quality, reasoning that those cohort studies with the highest quality exposure assessment had the greatest ability to identify and include workers who were truly exposed to benzene in their analyses.

The mortality proportion for group four is the proxy measure of study level risk within L'Abbé plots.

Despite meticulous effort, they were unable to support the current widely used human endotoxemia model as a suitable proxy for study of the septic microvascular permeability responses.

The final issue concerns the validity of patient scenarios as a proxy method of studying GPs' decision making.

More specifically, it was larger than 0.4 for 55 (83%) of the NILs with median value 0.48 and 95% reference range [0.32-0.69] [0.32-0.69]at mobile phoneshowingcan be used as a firsthatder proxy to study the distribution of the resident foreign population even at a finer spatial resolution.

However, exonic and intronic GC content are well correlated (Zhu et al. 2009; Tatarinova et al. 2010; Glémin et al. 2014) and GC3 is thus a good proxy to study the evolution of genic GC content.

Therefore smaller effective population sizes could be used as a proxy for studying variation of estimates of F in the presence of nonrandom mating.

Impact energy is the more relevant hazard proxy for studies regarding the vulnerability of built infrastructure, because only projectiles of a sufficient energy are capable of damaging buildings and penetrating roofs.

Powers says she thinks their fossil record should be "a good proxy for studying the environmental effects of these mass extinctions".

A main weakness in these studies is the ecological study design, only using season of diagnosis as a proxy of vitamin D. This study investigates the relationship between vitamin D and prognosis in patients with prostate cancer, using individual serum levels of 25(OH D.

Workers' qualifications and field-of-study are proxies for their skill set.