Sentence examples for standard to ascertain from inspiring English sources

The spent dialysate collection is the gold standard to ascertain session adequacy.

The extracted data were then compared against the gold standard to ascertain the validity of APP and to examine discrepancies.

We used the following standard to ascertain the onset week: if the positive isolation rate in any given week exceeded 40% of the maximum weekly positive isolation rate in the overall influenza season, this week was then considered the onset week of the influenza epidemic (17 ).

Due to the lack of a gold standard to ascertain LTBI in a study individual, specificity can only be measured in healthy subjects who report no known risk for prior M. tuberculosis (MTB) exposure and - as far as possible - in an environment that itself offers little or no chance of spontaneous, unrecognised transmission to the test population.

The groundwater in this region has been classified based on BIS (2003) and WHO (1993) standards to ascertain its suitability for drinking purposes (Table 1) based on pH and major ions.

Mice engineered to lack a specific gene are called "knockout" mice and are a standard way to ascertain a gene's role by seeing what the knockout mouse cannot do.

As a consequence, gold standard rules to ascertain the assessment of correct levels of individual diversity have been progressively developed.

For this study the study team developed the questionnaires in English language using standard questions to ascertain the information on diarrhea, its treatment and compliance of interventions.

All contacts were interviewed with a standard questionnaire to ascertain the extent of their contact with the patient, vaccination status, and information about laboratory work practices, if applicable.

However, the vague boundary of our sampling standard (difficult to ascertain the exact boundary among the four samples through different timings, as well as the initiation of the fiber ripening stage) resulted in the quantitative results in FirS being dissimilar to the RPKM values, which suggested that our sampling method could be further standardized for future studies of ramie fiber development.

A survey of subway lighting systems has been undertaken to evaluate the performance of the systems against design standards, and to ascertain the opinions of subway users on perceived lighting quality, with a view to identifying the most successful design solutions.