Sentence examples for term modality from inspiring English sources

The term modality is being used in several different fields of science.

The departure point is the refusal of the concept of informal "sector", in favour of the term "modality" of informal transformation.

The term root modality extends the bipartite distinction between deontic and epistemic modality and covers circumstantial modal values (conditioning external factors (Palmer 2001: 9)), root possibility, ability and volition.

Further limitations included the fact that they were reported only in subsets of participants in some studies, lack of common definitions for cardiac outcomes, and lack of common monitoring either in terms of modality to assess cardiac outcome or in terms of timing and duration of monitoring.

In terms of modality of dialysis, only 10%, of publically financed patients are currently receiving peritoneal dialysis.

Comprehensiveness in terms of modality, health delivery setting, target population, philosophy of care, occupation group/professional mix and method of delivery is paramount.

It is likely that patients have clearly defined preferences for treatments, both in terms of modality and general theoretical perspective and these preferences may differ between different subgroups of patients.

In terms of modality of training for IH topics, 86% (109) of residents and 70%8383) of faculty were interested in incorporating IH curriculum into general lecture series while 48% (61) of residents and 45% (54) of faculty were interested in participating in a quarterly global health interest group.

A separate line of work has looked at the characterization of scientific discourse in terms of modality and speculation (Kilicoglu and Bergler, 2008; Light et al., 2004; Medlock and Briscoe, 2007) while Shatkay et al. (2008) and Wilbur et al. (2006) annotate sentences according to various dimensions such as focus, polarity and certainty.

In particular, it was shown in studies initiated by Prof. V.M. Dilman more than 40 years ago that the inclusion of phenformin as a long-term adjuvant modality into programs of metabolic rehabilitation of postoperative colorectal and breast cancer patients was associated with increased total and relapse-free survival [ 10, 54, 55].

"In Eastern Europe," he said, "physical therapy was 20 years ahead of the West in terms of modalities like magnetic therapy and electrotherapy.