Sentence examples for specimens to track from inspiring English sources
For instance, Drake and Klingenberg (2008) were able to use museum specimens to track the gradual changes in skull shape among dogs in the St. Bernard breed that occurred as a result of selective breeding over the past 120 years.
With >30 case report forms, an anticipated enrollment of >12 000 patients and controls, and a large number of patient specimens to track, PERCH has contracted with the EMMES corporation (Rockville, MD) to develop an electronic data system to capture all the data from each site and to manage and help analyze the data.
While the use of HIT within reference laboratories to track specimens and to store results appears fairly advanced, use of electronic means to report test results back to providers appears mixed.
A study assistant was engaged full-time to track specimens from around the hospital to the laboratory, return laboratory results to the clinicians, manage study supplies and provide general logistical support to the study.
This obsession is not new, nor is it limited to Christmas: we have been coveting orchids since the first plant hunters were sent across the globe in the eighteenth century to track down specimens at great expense, and often at the cost of their lives.
Ultrasonic telemetry techniques were employed to track eleven specimens of Nautilus pompilius for variable times ranging from one to 78 days at Osprey Reef, Coral Sea, Australia.
Herbarium specimens have also been used to track the movement of invasive species across a region, as in the cases of the ornamental Callery pear tree (Pyrus calleryana Decne).
All positive viral specimens were processed and sequenced in order to track the transmission dynamics.
The preservation of many individuals, all originating from a single locality, either as museum specimens previously collected by naturalists, or specimens retrieved by archaeologists at a single site, provides an opportunity to track changes in a population over time.
"We tried to track that story down," Dr. Johnson-Maynard said, and discovered that many years ago there was one giant specimen.
