Sentence examples for usefulness because from inspiring English sources

Traditional clinical measurements, such as probing pocket depth, bleeding on probing, and clinical attachment loss, which are used for periodontal diagnosis, are often of only limited usefulness because they are indicators of previous periodontal disease rather than present disease activity [ 1].

Among Korean older people, the prevalence of low ASM was 9.7% in men and only 0.7% in women when an ASMI 2SD cutoff point of 6.09 kg/m was used for men and 4.38 kg/m for women, which lowers its clinical usefulness because of the extremely low determined prevalence in women.

7. Fuel duty has joined the list of taxes that are now of limited usefulness because they are incapable of being raised.

In general, said a senior Army officer who served in Iraq, many of the prisoners held in the isolation wing at Abu Ghraib were kept there long beyond any period of usefulness because "no one wanted to be responsible for releasing the next Osama bin Laden".

Experts say that the amount of time a patient spends on a medication is an important measure of its usefulness, because patients often stop taking a drug if it is not doing any good or if the side effects are intolerable.

This is a matter of great usefulness because type Ia supernovas at maximum light are the most luminous "standard candles" available for determining distances to external galaxies and thus can be observed in more distant galaxies than any other kind of standard candle.

The aggregated overall intensity index was of limited usefulness mainly because of limitations in interpretability.

Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanning is also a useful method to evaluate hydration status in dialysis patients; however, its clinical usefulness is low because the DEXA estimations of FFM can be influenced by hydration status.

Although treaties can attempt to enforce compliance through mechanisms such as sanctions, such measures usually are of limited usefulness, in part because countries in compliance with a treaty may be unwilling or unable to impose the sanctions called for by the treaty.

This increases the clinical usefulness of proHNPs, because their presence in plasma is a specific marker of normal myelopoietic activity.

It may well be that its relevance and usefulness is restricted because it often does not tackle the locally specific effects of climate change and their associated variation.