Sentence examples for samples of insufficient from inspiring English sources

A small-scale adiabatic calorimeter has been constructed as part of a larger project to study the thermodynamics of nanomaterials and to facilitate heat capacity measurements on samples of insufficient quantity to run on our current large-scale adiabatic apparatus.

This may have a significant impact on the number of TB cases diagnosed since the chance of finding bacilli is lower in sputum samples of insufficient quality.

Among men otherwise eligible for inclusion in metal BP regressions, some were excluded because of cadmium concentrations below the detection limit (DL; n = 41) and/or samples of insufficient weight to assess metal concentrations (7 for cadmium, 72 for mercury).

No eligible participants were excluded because of metal concentrations below the DL for arsenic, mercury, manganese, or lead, or because of samples of insufficient weight for arsenic, manganese, or lead.

Mercury regressions have a considerably smaller sample size than regressions for other metals (Table 2) because of toenail samples of insufficient weight to assess mercury concentrations as well as adjustment for fish and shellfish intake.

The 4 cryptococcal tests were not performed for all CSF samples because of insufficient sample volumes (most common), laboratory operating hours, or reagent supply chain difficulties.

All the above reported lack of associations might be due to a sample of insufficient size to detect small effects, particularly in subgroup analyses, interactions and multivariable adjustments.

For example, assessing breast cancer tissue for expression of her2 or of estrogen receptor in a sample of "insufficient" size may not accurately reflect the molecular status of a tumor (Moeder et al. 2007; Chung et al. 2007).

Women were excluded from the present analyses if they did not participate through delivery or did not give birth to a live child (n = 64), bore twins (n = 5), refused to give a blood sample or gave a sample of insufficient volume for PBDE (n = 168) or TH (n = 69) analyses, or took medication that could affect TH levels (n = 1).

We analyzed the urinary metabolites for all samples, but two samples were of insufficient volume for subsequent creatinine analysis.

Triplicate data could not be obtained for each sample because of insufficient sample quantity.