Sentences with phrase «known isolated cases»

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It refers to random, isolated cases in which individuals have no known risk factors or family history of the disease.

For instance, in cases where minimum inhibitory concentration breakpoints are not documented, susceptibility was determined using Kirby — Bauer discs for select antibiotics known to have anaerobic activity; if the bacterial lawn grew up to the edge of the disc, then it was considered resistant and that isolate was not used.

This has been the case with many daycares we've been at, so I know it's not just an isolated problem.

In some cases, isolated first dates can seem more like job interviews as opposed to an organic method of getting to know one another.

While doctors don't know why some instances of early onset happen, scientists have isolated rare genes that can directly cause it in a many cases.

A clean comparison relies on either being able to isolate just one reasonably known forcing, or having enough data to be able to average over many examples and thus isolate the patterns associated solely with that forcing, even though in any particular case, more than one thing might have been happening.

Joe: «You additionally observe that I am «taking the extreme and irrelevant sub-thermodynamic case of a minuscule total number of isolated particles — in which regime the macroscopic temperature is increasingly ill - defined and no longer simply proportional to the kinetic energy per particle.»

You are wilfully taking the extreme and irrelevant sub-thermodynamic case of a minuscule total number of isolated particles — in which regime the macroscopic temperature is increasingly ill - defined and no longer simply proportional to the kinetic energy per particle — and torturing it to produce something that looks a bit like a macroscopic lapse rate, but is really nothing more than a mathematical artefact of absolutely no significance.