Like most dating apps, users can set preferences based around location, gender and age, with the added benefit of selecting intentions (casual conversation, friendship, romance, etc).
The compression rates were selected with the intention of evaluating the performance of the system for bit-rates of 128, 32, 28, 24, 20, 16, and 12 kbps.
Now, imagine the reaction of the impact investing community in the following scenario: 50 impact investing funds get selected with the intention of generating financial returns and creating a so-called "Impact Investing Benchmark" based only on their impact performance.
For example, as noted in Altonji et al. (2005), the set of covariates X available in the dataset have probably been selected with the intention of reducing bias rather than having been selected at random.
The tests were selected with the intention to cover an array of cognitive domains and a range of difficulty.
Control subjects were selected with the intention to create a group as similar to the preterm group as possible, with one exception only, the gestational age at birth.
Eight patients, selected with the intention to treat, were excluded from the analysis when the laparoscopic procedure evolved into a open procedure.
To determine parents' beliefs about infant feeding practices and weaning approaches Six study sites were selected with the intention of ensuring a higher probability of recruiting parents whose infants were at risk of developing obesity.
The iCOGS array includes 286 SNPs located 1 Mb upstream and downstream of the HNF1B (RefSeq NM_000458.2) gene, selected with the intention to carry out fine-mapping studies of this locus (34).
Although this BMI cutoff for obesity is lower than current definitions of obesity, the two groups were selected with the intention of examining the impact of insulin resistance on β-cell mass, appreciating from available data that the selected ranges for BMI would have resulted in groups with contrasting insulin sensitivity.
The inclusion criteria were: 1) 18 35 years old, 2) currently married, 3) living in one of the 20 communes selected with the intention to stay in the areas for the 24 months following recruitment, 4) plan to have children in the next year and 5) agree to participate with informed consent.
