Sentence examples for used absence from inspiring English sources

The herders evaluated biodiversity in terms of key forage species and used absence or presence of the preferred species from individual landscapes for monitoring change in biodiversity.

Yet, when a more stringent extinction criterion was used (absence of viral genetic material amplifiable by RT-PCR), extinction was ascertained only for M296I treated with R and then with FUG (with 500 µg/ml FU, not with 200 µg/ml FU) (compare panels C of Figs. 2 and 3).

Two studies [ 51, 57] used absence of pain at the surgical site as an additional criterion for union.

As binary outcome we used absence or presence of a disease-specific death event, or the surrogate-distant metastasis if the former was not available.

Under the experimental conditions used, absence of insemination reflects the inability of mating in confined spaces, a trait of the pipiens form.

In these studies, the authors have used absence of metabolic activity in a lesion, or reduction in intensity to no more than that contained in the blood pool, to denote a complete response.

She uses nonexistence in art, and she uses absence in her private life.

However, implementation is inconsistent with some Emergency Medical Service EMSS) agencies using absence of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) as sole criterion for termination.

Some studies use percentiles, tertiles or the median, whereas others use absence vs presence, the minimal P-value approach, or do not report a cutoff point at all.

(There aren't)." This is not reassuring: as Carl Sagan used to remind us, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

In order to facilitate the use of LRM when absence data were unavailable, a number of studies have used pseudo-absences in place of real absences [ 14- 21].