Sentence examples for stepwise means from inspiring English sources

Par. 3, last line: "Stepwise" means "relatively large" in context, but perhaps it should be made more explicit (otherwise, may be interpreted as "step by step", i.e., gradual).

This was done by calculating stepwise the mean number of inflammatory cells for the total of HPFs until the difference between the successive means became negligibly small.

Similarly, in this study, pain severity in the separate spinal pain groups demonstrates stepwise increased mean values of reported pain intensity and impact on ADL (Table 1).

The kinetics of osmotic dehydration were investigated using 50%and65%5% sucrose solutions, using samples previously blanched by both stepwise and conventional means.

However, a model with stepwise inclusion of mean arterial pressure < 65 mmHg, HR ≥ 90 bpm, lactate > 2 mmol/L and MFI < 2.6 did not detect significant differences in ICU mortality.

Creating a broader and more solid empirical basis could also include the use of synthesized fricative continua (or synthesized speech in general) in which the stepwise changes in mean CoG and potentially confounding factors in the spectral energy distribution can still be better controlled than in the present study.

The objective was to study the effects of a lung recruitment procedure by stepwise increases of mean airway pressure upon organ blood flow and hemodynamics during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) versus pressure-controlled ventilation (PCV) in experimental lung injury.

In this line, Grychtol and colleagues [ 84] proposed a fuzzy logic-based algorithm to analyze EIT images obtained during stepwise changes of mean airway pressure to identify alveolar opening of collapsed regions, overdistension of previously functional areas, collapse of previously opened alveolar regions and the recovery of previously overdistended alveoli.

In addition, there was a negative correlation found between OPN, but not N-half OPN, and eGFR in T2DM patients (r = -0.258; P < 0.001; Figure 1A), as well as stepwise increases in mean OPN concentrations in patients with deteriorating renal function (237 ± 72, 268 ± 120, and 338 ± 203 ng/mL in T2DM patients with normal, mild, moderate renal insufficiency, respectively; P < 0.001; Figure 1B).

The first phase of the analysis was to detect the most important variables for group separation between GR and BR by means of stepwise variable selection.

A novel soluble aryl amide-bridged ladder-like polymethylsiloxane (ALPS) was synthesized via a stepwise coupling polymerization by means of H-bonding self-assembling template.