This study serves as preliminary step towards the implementation of a structural health monitoring based on modal analysis.
Insofar as dialectic is the skill of distinguishing the things known, it can serve as preliminary to weaving because it is preliminary to showing how the kinds harmonize.
Therefore, our assumption that the testing of antioxidant activity may serve as preliminary screening, which should be followed by more disease-related assays, such as cytotoxicity testing to identify candidates with anticancer activity may be correct.
Results of this study may serve as preliminary information to identify olfaction-based approaches which interfere with insect host location and mating behavior through a strategy called push-pull pest control.
These results are consistent with the participation of iPLA2γ in cellular redox homeostasis and serve as preliminary tools leading to a direct identification of cysteine oxidative modifications of the enzyme.
Document retrieval and clustering often serve as preliminary steps in information extraction (IE) or text mining, two overlapping areas concerned with extracting useful knowledge from documents, such as the main features of named entities (category, roles in relation to other entities, location, dates, etc).
The results of this pilot study also establish the feasibility of a larger study and provide the empirical basis to serve as preliminary data from which to estimate statistical power and sample size for a larger efficacy study, inclusive of women as well as men.
We suggest that data sets generated in this way could serve as preliminary models for testing current and future analytical methods whose objectives are to estimate migration rates among populations or to detect past bottleneck events.
Querying this catalog for mCNV-associated SNPs with a nominal association to a phenotype could serve as preliminary genome-wide survey for mCNV associations.
The findings reported here serve as preliminary evidence suggesting that ≥15 minute showers during pregnancy could have potential teratogenic effects, particularly for gastroschisis.
