Sentence examples for valid substitute from inspiring English sources

Therefore the use of sheep suppressively treated with effective anthelmintics appears to be a valid substitute for gastrointestinal nematode-free lambs in field experiments.

It's apparently a very old idea going back thousands of years, and we know that in pseudoscience circles age is a perfectly valid substitute for "evidence that is actually works".

In a six-page decision rejecting a request from alternative schools for exemption from the Regents exams, Mr. Mills said that the schools could not be excused because advocates had failed to present evidence that portfolios were a valid substitute for the test.

When David Cameron set up the National Citizen Service along with his "big society" initiative in 2011, there was no indication that the NCS would eventually siphon off youth service budgets: this four-week summer citizenship scheme cannot be considered a valid substitute for year-round youth provision.

This was again important for simplification of future protocols as arterial cannulation could be omitted if venous sampling was proven to be a valid substitute.

In the past few years, collagen matrices (CM) have been studied as a valid substitute for free gingival grafts, in particular the porcine CM Mucograft (Geistlich Biomaterials GmbH, Baden-Baden, Germany).

Consequently, the cotton, abaca, and silk model textiles were found to be valid substitutes for historic iron-tannate dyed textiles in stabilisation treatment studies.

This study was performed on calf spines, which are regarded valid substitutes for human cadaveric spine testing experiments [ 21].

Expression filters are useful to assess 'magnitude of effect' and to reduce the number of comparisons for a subsequent statistical test, but they are not valid substitutes for formal statistical testing.

Noteworthy, the eq 4 predicts a mixed state (lower/macro-Cassie Baxter and upper/micro-Wenzelower/macro-Cassie Baxternd it is for our specific geometry vandd substituting R with Rm, FSL with FSL M and FLA with FLA M, where "m" stands for "micro" and "M" for "macro" (in the previous equations, only global quantitieseelay a role).

It addresses whether, and to what degree, design research ought to rely on explanatory words as its principal medium of research, or whether it is valid to substitute artifactual creation for intellectual explanation in the research process.