Sentence examples for stage arbitrarily from inspiring English sources

When grouped according to disease duration, patients with disease in a relatively early stage (arbitrarily defined as fewer than 18 months from the first non-Raynaud manifestation, n = 25) had low adiponectin levels (median 9.6 μg/mL, IQR 8.5) in comparison with patients with disease in the late stage (defined as more than 36 months, n = 91) (median 17.1 μg/mL, IQR 15.3, P = 0.004).

By making use of fictitious points, systematic approaches are proposed to locally enforce the physical jump conditions at material interfaces in a preprocessing stage, to arbitrarily high orders of accuracy in principle.

The intermediate size (60 mm SL; at such a size, some species are already adults and others are always at the juvenile stage) was arbitrarily chosen to estimate the MD when fishes are already settled on coral reef and when size difference among species are eliminated.

Mild, moderate, and severe stages are arbitrarily defined.

In the third stage, districts were arbitrarily identified within each urban and rural region, boundaries being defined using local maps or in consultation with the local health workers.

Baseline staging investigations were arbitrarily chosen to be those taking place within 3 months of the date of breast cancer diagnosis.

The experimental system used in this study was specially designed for obtaining several hydrate samples formed at different, arbitrarily selected stages during each hydrate-forming operation.

At the top end of the market you can now buy a fridge with a built-in radio and voice recorder, proving we've reached the stage of combining functions entirely arbitrarily.

Although the UMVCUE and MLE can become arbitrarily close as stage 1 gets larger, this will not be true for every sample drawn at a fixed and finite stage 1 size.

The phenotype level was chosen arbitrarily.

Similar to the seral stages in Clements' theory, successional development of forests has been divided into more or less arbitrarily defined developmental stages (Bormann and Likens 1979; Oliver 1980).