Sentence examples for weighting relative from inspiring English sources

Because the Rhodes Scholarship is the most competitive and prestigious of undergraduate awards, we give it a higher weighting relative to the other awards.

Laplacian smoothing is imposed, with weighting relative to the data residuals determined by minimizing the Akaike Bayesian Information Criteria (ABIC) (Akaike, 1974).

In 1858, the Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro published a list of atomic weights relative to that of oxygen.

Obesity was defined as having a body mass index -- a measure of weight relative to height -- of 30 or above.

The plan would also strengthen Germany's institutional weight relative to other countries'.

They found that women appear to be at risk for discrimination at far lower weights, relative to their body size, than men.

The index is a measure of weight relative to height and can be calculated in several ways, including taking a person's weight in pounds, dividing by height in inches squared, then multiplying by 703.

In the study, doctors examined patient records for 5,316 men attending Aberdeen Fertility Centre between 1990 and 2007 and identified 2,037 who had listed their body mass index, which measures a person's weight relative to their height.

"The fairing has considerable weight relative to the portion of the vehicle that's flying," said John Brunschwyler, manager of the Taurus rocket program for the Orbital Sciences Corporation of Virginia, which built the rocket and the satellite.

They found a 6% increased risk for every five extra BMI units (BMI – body mass index – is a calculation based on weight relative to height, and normal BMI levels are 18.5 to 25).

The total yield of the obtained material was 71% by weight (relative to the starting material).