Sentence examples for specimen is likely from inspiring English sources

A wolf expert, quoted by Finnish nature magazine Suomen Luonto, which revealed the allegations, also said the wolf appears to have been trained to jump the gate, because a wild specimen is likely to squeeze between the bars.

He says the specimen is likely to furnish missing details about dromaeosaur bones, and it "tells us how successful the dromaeosaur body plan was," as it persisted with few changes for about 100 million years.

In the present study, failure to amplify nuDNA and mtDNA from the oldest specimen is likely due to post-mortem degradation of DNA to sub-amplifiable levels [3].

Additionally, exostotic material between the quadrate and squamosal is not developed in NCSM 14345 (Figure 11), and its presence in the holotype specimen is likely a non-inheritable pathologic feature that is not ubiquitous within or unique to Acrocanthosaurus atokensis.

We suggest that this specimen is likely a true positive which was not detected by the PneumoBacter-1 assay, likely due to its gel-based format.

The fact that LOH is partial in the surgical specimen is likely due to the presence of normal cells contaminating the sample; alternatively, it may also reflect tumor heterogeneity.

In 2012, a study showed that cranial pathologies in a P. wyomingensis specimen were likely due to agonistic behavior.

Cyclic tests of sandwich specimens, and a representation of the results in terms of cumulative strain, indicate that some of the acoustic emission activity during loading and unloading of the specimens is likely to be associated with the debonding and pulling-out of knitted fabric tows across the fracture surfaces of the matrix cracks.

Therefore, the proportion of positive specimens is likely to be a more robust indicator in such situations.

However, using the 24-hr urine specimens is likely to be more accurate than previously published work, which has been based on spot urine samples with post hoc adjustment to try to correct for concentration effects.

Since the samples in our study were not collected through active case finding, the high MDR rate noted in our specimens is likely to reflect the large number of previously treated patients included in this study.