Sentence examples for stringent reference from inspiring English sources

Over the years, more stringent reference levels of 150 Bq m−3 or less have been proposed by international institutions and national agencies.

Due to its inflated reference emission scenario, country X might receive all of the global REDD resources and country Y would get nothing by imposing a stringent reference scenario and thus loosing competitiveness.

However, the magnitude of this risk was modest (OR = 1.43) and decreased rather than increased with use of more stringent reference groups excluding those exposed to secondhand smoke.

Firstly, we have not undertaken any independent verification of the accuracy of injury diagnoses within SHR although we have shown that our estimates for cruciate ligament injury are quite consistent with studies using more stringent reference standards [ 24].

Further, in none of the studies reviewed, in either the peer-reviewed literature or the JMPR database, was it evident that the human data contributed to a lower (more stringent) reference value than that based on animal data; rather, the converse was true - human data, if they influenced a reference value at all, led to a relaxation of the value.

Use of a more stringent reference group did not increase the smoking risk ratios in part because of the limited number of women who had no active or passive smoke exposure and the lack of an association between secondhand smoking and breast cancer in this sample.

The government avoided setting stringent radiation reference levels for the return of Fukushima evacuees for fear of triggering a population drain and being hit by ballooning costs for compensation, an Asahi Shimbun investigation shows.

In Weining, Qingzhen, and Leigong, average exposures remained below provisional tolerable weekly intakes for total mercury and for methylmercury (0.57 μg/kg/d and 0.23 μg/kg/d, respectively) and a more stringent methylmercury reference dose of 0.1 μg/kg/d.

We further divided euthyroid type 2 diabetic patients into two subgroups (TSH: 2.0 to <4.0 vs. 0.4 to <2.0 μIU/ml) and compared the two based on a more stringent "normal" reference interval of TSH suggested by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANESS) III (7).

These findings suggest that a longer, more comprehensive neuropsychological battery may be a more stringent and appropriate reference test.

On the other hand, if the cut off is made too stringent, stably expressed reference genes may be excluded and accuracy might drop.