Sentence examples for search for surrogates from inspiring English sources

But once that meeting is part of your schedule you discover it's boring, and search for surrogates to send in your place.

Conservation actions require a measure of biodiversity such as species richness, but its assessment is very difficult, even for small areas and therefore the search for surrogates (i.e. indicators) of biodiversity has emerged as an active research topic.

The search for surrogates of changes in species richness and community structure in fragmented landscapes involves not only the selection of predictors, such as landscape metrics or environmental variables, but also the identification of the spatial scale that is most relevant to the taxa in question.

For Roper, the Reformation involved a search for surrogate father figures and a vigorous reassertion of Luther's own masculinity.

The search for surrogate species or surrogate data for biodiversity is confronted with this complexity.

By destroying bat habitats, humans effectively encourage the winged mammals to search for surrogate sources of food –- such as fruit orchards -– that are located closer to where large clusters of people live.

Complicating the search for surrogate markers are recent reports of patients with LN undergoing protocol repeat renal biopsy at defined time points regardless of clinical status.

Although the methodology for cardiac index measurement used could also have influenced this finding, it may also demonstrate that renal clearance is determined by multiple factors and the search for surrogate markers may be elusive.

We are using DL to investigate epithelial cell atypia rates among BRCA mutation carriers and are performing a variety of molecular and proteomic analyses on the ductal fluid collected in the search for surrogate biomarkers of breast cancer risk.

Unlike haematological tumours, the crucial limitation of the molecular approach in breast cancer, as well as in other solid tumours, is the lack of a tumour-specific genetic marker that has induced the search for surrogate epithelial markers under the assumption that they are not expressed in mesenchymal cells.

These diagnostic tools have proved to be frustratingly limited, especially in the intensive care unit setting; thus the search for surrogate markers, detectable in serum and/or CSF, could provide further information about the extent of neuronal damage, which is crucial in estimating prognosis and outcome [ 6].