Sentence examples for utility range from inspiring English sources

In March, the Conran Shop launched its Utility range, a collection including wholesome storage jars, carpet-beaters, vegetable brushes, dusters and basketware that refer to a bygone era when kitchens were the domain of home-baking and preserving, rather than Nespresso machines and ready meals, and houses smelt of furniture polish not Diptyque candles.

The Hummer H2 by General Motors gets a 2, while the scores for the BMW X5 sport utility range from 1 to 4. The high-performance version of the Mercedes-Benz M-Class gets a 0 rating, while all other versions score 1; that means they produce at least twice as much in smog-forming pollutants as the Ford Explorer, a 4 on the E.P.A. scale.

Within the limited utility range, the Australian Adolescent Tariff generated a wider spread of scores and consistently lower mean values.

This scoring approach limits the utility range of health states worse than dead to values between 0 and −1.

Mean absolute error in predictions by EQ-5D utility range increases with severity for our models (0.085 to 0.34) and for existing mapping functions (0.123 to 0.272).

The EQ-5D appears to be less sensitive to changes in the upper end of the health utility range (i.e., it exhibits ceiling effects), while the SF-6D appears to be less sensitive in the lower end of the health utility range (i.e., it exhibits floor effects) [ 29].

In these 6 studies, the mean utility ranged from 0.66 to 0.80.

The relative importance of each attribute was then calculated with respect to the sum of utility ranges.

When these cost s were weighted by the individual mean health status (area under the Karnofsky curve), the cost utility ranged from €41167 to €53369 per QALY gained.

Table 3 illustrates the standardised, zero-centred partworth utilities for all attribute levels and the attribute utility ranges, which form the basis for quantifying the relative importance of the attributes.

Overall health-related quality of life of the subjects was good (mean utility ranged from 0.68 (±0.08) to 0.85 ±0.14) over the nine utility measures) and comparable to patients without diabetes.