Sentences with phrase «possible measure of quality»

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Although the study failed to find any association between sperm morphology and other common lifestyle factors, such as cigarette smoking or alcohol consumption, it remains possible that they could correlate with other aspects of sperm that were not measured, such as the quality of the DNA contained in the sperm head.

As well as the detection of explosives, chemical weapons and drugs, there is a broad array of other possible applications, such as measuring food quality, health (breath analysis), environmental monitoring, and even geological monitoring (volcanoes) and agriculture (detecting pests).

The solid foundation provided by following the Whole30 guidelines makes it possible to measure other health and quality - of - life markers and to tinker with them.

When measuring the quality of proteins, meaning, the efficiency with which the proteins of these different foods are used within the body, it is found that the weight gained from animal protein is greatly larger than any possible weight gained from plant protein.

Given that we have difficulty agreeing on learning targets, is it possible to use student learning success as an accurate measure of school quality?

In reality, it will not be possible for most states to both intensify narrow testing such as that proposed by Bush and to improve the quality of assessments while adopting multiple measures.

We used three measures to capture the pertinent information: return on equity (ROE) to reflect growth and profitability; the debt coverage ratio to represent the likelihood of default; and the accruals - to - average - total - assets measure defined by Sloan (1996) to quantify possible accounting red flags.12 To arrive at company - specific quality measures, we used the simple arithmetic average of each stock's percentile rank for these three variables.

This could lead to an earlier diagnosis of arthritis and possible treatment plans.While there is no magic wand to prevent or heal your feline of underlying joint arthritis, many measures can be used to boost the comfort and quality of living of your little Felix and Fluffy.

We encourage and promote quality in the breeding of pure - bred Boston Terriers, and to do everything possible to bring their natural qualities to perfection, by urging members and breeders to accept the Breed Standard as the measure of excellence.

That's why it's so it's important that we take every measure to extend their lives, and do our best to improve the quality of those years as much as possible.

You will also get a glimpse of what is yet still possible, with real - life examples of products created with free climate and atmosphere data, such as climate monitoring to measure air quality and temperature, for instance, to assist town planning.

He has to suggest possible and reasonable measures to cut down on operational costs without compromising on quality and quantity of output.

Experienced with measuring, analyzing and calibrating the equipment to ensure that the highest possible quality of results are gained.

In addition to knowing each set of twins» genetic overlap (identical = more, fraternal = less), the researchers focused on individual twins» reports of marital satisfaction (a general measure of the quality of their marriages) and self - reported health that asks participants to indicate their overall health, from «the worst possible» to «the best possible» health.

Another possible reason for the failure to find more substantial relationships between the quality of the working alliance and treatment outcome has been proposed by Stiles et al [11], who found great variability in the correlation with outcome measures taken at different stages in the therapy.

A recent review has argued that there may be no real difference between the influence of the mother and the father, and suggested that future researchers should include both parents in their models, use the same measures of involvement for each parent where possible, and consider quality (e.g. positive engagement, warmth, responsiveness) as well as quantity of parenting [16].

That design should be replicated as, in some way, it controls for possible cultural factors and could make results more comparable (especially if considering a measure of quality of care).

RootMetrics, which measures the quality and reliability of mobile service, says mobile carriers continue to boost their LTE networks, add capacity and install new technology «to provide the fastest and most reliable service possible.»