Sentence examples for selected to prevent from inspiring English sources

Although it is unlikely that differences in these variables between RA patients and controls are of sufficient size to yield biased results, patients and controls were matched on age and gender and randomly selected to prevent selection bias.

Because cable modem systems operate simultaneously with cable television systems, the upstream (subscriber to CMTS) and downstream (CMTS to subscriber) frequencies must be selected to prevent interference with the television signals.

The FBI believed that the Bahamas were selected to prevent the duchess from coming into contact with British officials and scooping up more secrets to leak and that special precautions were taken, presumably by the British, to prevent her from "establishing any channel of communication with von Ribbentrop".

Gigabit ethernet cards are also selected to prevent any individual networking bottlenecks.

High-frequency switching may harm the servomotor and hydraulic pump; a large T should be selected to prevent damage.

Conversely, only intransitive objects which cannot be handled were selected to prevent gesture-related activation during their visual processing.

As cable modems increase in popularity, individuals may find less bandwidth available to them; Excite@Home has also taken to limiting upstream (to the Internet) speed to as little as 128 kbps in selected areas to prevent home users from running services like Web servers.

Training and close monitoring of quality of care and the health professional's performance were the most often selected strategies to prevent these adverse events in the future.

Primary care providers should assess patients for the risk of hip fracture and consider using hip protectors and nutritional supplementaton in selected individuals to prevent fractures.

Both cultivars have erect involucral bracts when seeds are ripe, most likely selected for to prevent seed shattering (de Vries 1997).

Moreover, it has been suggested that in these species, males with territory defence mating tactic might preferentially increase their investment in post-copulatory traits to increase their fertilization efficiency whereas males with female defence mating tactic might increase their investment in pre-copulatory sexually selected traits to prevent other males from copulating with females.