The quiet of languid country-town streets was deemed preferable to the absolute silence of whole abandoned blocks.
In a context of uncertainty around future fuel prices, technological progress, and climate policy, avoiding the irreversible shutdown of nuclear assets is deemed preferable.
It's very good indeed on the contentious area of collusion in abusive relationships, where the "attention" of maltreatment is deemed preferable to the catastrophe of indifference.
It boasts high levels of polyunsaturated fats, in particular linoleic acid, which for some is not that good of a thing – opting for high oleic sunflower oil is deemed preferable.
A slight increase in transmission power at a node to cover a neighbour node is deemed preferable to having another (closer) node retransmit.
For this reason, it has often been deemed preferable to use only scalar data at high latitudes rather than use vector components that are more sensitive to high latitude current systems.
Contraindications to intravenous CEUS are severe cardiopulmonary dysfunction and known hypersensitivity, whilst it has been deemed preferable to avoid intravenous CEUS in pregnancy because of an absence of clinical data.
57 58 For the current study the Wii was deemed preferable over other newer more complex virtual reality platforms, such as the Xbox Kinect: it is low cost, requires less space, permits support from a therapist within the field of view and the Wii sensors are relatively 'forgiving' thereby facilitating use by people with impaired or compromised movement.
Fetal growth after 41 weeks gestation could have resulted in a baby being classified in a different growth category (e.g. AGA) than he/she would have been at 41 weeks (e.g., SGA); however any minor misclassification which may have resulted from this approach was deemed preferable to eliminating these records.
The reason for not using a quality assessment score stemmed from the fact that, since this review aimed to capture a broad understanding of the perceptions, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers providing services for immigrants, having a great miscellany of evidence (sensitivity) was deemed preferable than recruiting only studies with good quality (specificity).
