However, to improve readability of the manuscript, the term "serum" is used when referring to the liquid portion of blood, except where explicit measures in plasma are discussed.
It is the modeler's decision to use intricate names that may help the readability of the model in terms of its biological interpretation.
The use of DBS for HIV or syphilis testing is not the gold standard methodology, However, for the analysis, DBS based tests were used as reference method and, to improve simplicity and readability of the manuscript, we use the terms sensitivity and specificity for syphilis and HIV POCT results, instead of positive and negative concordance between the two testing methodologies.
In particular, for readability purposes the terms self-concept, confidence, self-confidence have been used interchangeably in the present study.
Notably, across the manuscript, we often use term gene as a synonym for the term COG, to improve the readability of the text.
By analysing short-term changes in the readability of the traces of the WWII airfield of Venosa (Potenza, Italy), this research highlights the importance of seasonal and climatologic circumstances in remote sensing, as well as human interventions in the landscape.
For the ease of readability, we use the term '1-D' to represent any 1-dimensional point or group of points.
In this paper, a reassignment method is used, which can improve the concentration of the scalogram and weaken the interference terms to a certain extent; thus, the readability of the scalogram can be improved.
Significant genes are associated to both the most informative functional terms, avoiding redundancy of information, and the most representative temporal patterns, thus improving the readability of the results.
(The abbreviations are used to enhance the readability of the terms they can be replaced everywhere by the defining combinators).
One author (LC) assessed the readability of the PILs.
