Sentences with phrase «than results obtained»

Remember that blood serum and plasma glucose levels run at a lab are often 10 - 15 % higher than results obtained on meters.

Importantly, cisplatin toxicity and Pgp efflux transporter activity measured on - chip more closely mimic the in vivo responses than results obtained with cells maintained under conventional culture conditions.

Contrary to what the trial judge stated, the husband's offer was not as good as or better than the result he obtained at trial, and nor had the husband been successful on all material issues.

Not exact matches

There is nothing more frustrating for a business than spending money on a marketing campaign and not obtaining quantifiable results, especially when on a shoestring budget.

She concluded that the SFO had taken far longer to prosecute cases than two similar American bodies, and had obtained limited results.

Indeed, these more immediate benefits may ultimately prove to be more valuable than the tax deferral obtained from saving for retirement should pressures on fiscally strapped governments result in higher tax rates and reduced retirement benefits in the years ahead.

The «results» they obtain are the worst kind of anecdotal rather than analytical data and they're basically worthless.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

This means that, in 19 out of 20 cases, survey results will differ by no more than 2.5 percentage points from what would have been obtained by the opinions of all target group members in the U.S.

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because when I pipe my cannelloni I do nt get such a clean result at their extreme end and that what I want to obtain same (even if I» not as talented as you are, I would be happy if you can advive me to achieve this result) beautiful looking than yours.

After several trial and error attempts to obtain the perfect amount of heat, the final result turned out to be better than I ever expected it to be.

«The latter has obtained celebrity in his manufacture; he is entitled to all the advantages of that celebrity, whether resulting from the greater demand for his goods or from the higher price the public are willing to give for the article, rather than for the goods of the other manufacturer, whose reputation is not so high as a manufacturer.»

The focus becomes about obtaining a result, which is out of your control, rather than pursuing excellence, which is 100 % controllable.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

«This has been obtained as a result of a good deal of persistence... Late, but a good deal better than never.

Schneiderman said they've been able to obtain more than 75 dispositions from «corrupt officials and their cronies,» as a result.

«REBNY does it smarter and better than any other real estate organization and therefore obtains the best results for its constituency,» he continued.

Results showed that men punish more than women, men obtain higher rank, and punishment by males decreases payoffs for both sexes.

The remaining 15 % of cases in which no match was obtained, were mostly the result of poor scent sampling rather than poor recognition.

Speroni said, «We now have a way to test the impact of endocrine - disrupting chemicals on the development of the mouse mammary gland at different doses and obtain results in less than a week.»

The first such drug, called ipilimumab (Yervoy), developed out of Allison's basic science research, showed much lower response rates against advanced melanoma than those obtained with targeted drugs, but long - term follow - up found that 22 percent of those treated with Yervoy survived at least four years, unprecedented results for the disease.

Duax and his team obtained their results by combing through a database that contains the sequences of more than 90 million genes.

When the geometry of such a system is specified, the simulator allows the user to vary primary and secondary scattering foil material and thickness and to see results in approximately 100 milliseconds, about 10 million times faster than Monte Carlo simulations, which are simulations and computational algorithms that rely on random sampling to obtain results for extremely complex problems that have only numerical solutions.

Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

The most clear cut results were obtained in analyses of Mstn + / − offspring derived from crosses of Mstn + / + males with Mstn − / − females, which showed significantly higher muscle weights than Mstn + / − offspring derived from crosses of Mstn − / − males with Mstn + / + females.

(The same pattern of results was obtained when weighting each ROI equally, rather than in proportion to volume as described in Supplementary Note 3, or when neural response similarities were not normalized across subjects for each brain region prior to analysis, as described in Supplementary Note 2.)

As a result, STIS is much more efficient at obtaining scientific data than the earlier HST spectrographs.

Simulations show that the results are no better than those obtained with randomly selected cell lines.»

«Results from these cells are more likely to translate to the clinic than those obtained from other species or from systems not derived from taste tissue,» said Rawson.

Simulations show that the results are no better than those obtained with randomly selected cell lines (Supplementary Report 8).»

The difference in results obtained in the two tasks designed to test reference memory (cross maze and water maze) indicated that the disturbance depended on task difficulty rather than on a particular memory component.

However, Dr. Campbell argues, as a result of seventy - grant - years of peer - reviewed research he and his colleagues have conducted, that human beings actually need much less protein than typically recommended and that all of the protein required by the human body can be, and should be, obtained from plant - sources.

These results suggest that substituting protein for fat in the diet may lead to greater weight loss than can be obtained by substituting carbohydrate for dietary fat.

Most studies have focused on the effect of individual BAs administered intravenously to laboratory animals or healthy volunteers, but these results are difficult to transfer to food intake since the intravenous response is several times higher than that obtained with oral administrations [87].

Studies also show that athletes can overtrain through the same mechanisms, which can result in physical, biochemical and or mental - emotional injuries that can ultimately impair performance, often more than the gains obtained in the training techniques that improved it.

As a result, the IOM recommends that adults older than 50 years obtain most of their vitamin B12 from vitamin supplements or fortified foods [5].

However, Wiktorsson - Moller et al. (38) demonstrated that massage improved ROM but that static stretching resulted in significantly greater hip, knee, and ankle ROM than that obtained by massage, warming up, or warming up and massage combined.

In this particular study, the chances are 95 in 100 that a survey result does not vary, plus or minus, by more than 3.1 % percentage points from the result that would be obtained if interviews had been conducted with all persons in the universe represented by the sample.

More interesting results would probably be obtained, however, with the films of, say, Jack Smith or Gregory Markopoulos than with a narrative feature, even one as fragmented in its storytelling and as broad in its sensual appeal as The New World.

Once again, the results showed even larger positive effects than those obtained for the full sample.

But as mentioned previously, these studies have a serious methodological limitation: They rely on average results obtained from large, heterogeneous units that differ from one another in many ways other than the amounts they spend on schools.

If Utah expends only about 1/2 the national average in per pupil spending, yet obtains results better than 40 other states in the nation, what's your complaint?

The letter says that the grades obtained provide a better guide to future performance of students as Cambridge undergraduates than other methods of selection, such as GCSE results — which are «nowhere near as reliable» - or aptitude tests.

The results of several studies indicated that middle level grades 6, 7, and 8 obtained higher achievement in K — 8 schools than in schools with middle school configurations.

A survey conducted in fall 2013 by the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) obtained similar results.9 More than half of districts reported that all teachers had examined the standards in detail.

Results indicate that community college students taking dual credit were significantly more likely to obtain a baccalaureate degree (28 % to 19 %, respectively) than their matched peers who did not participate in dual credit.

The result is better acceleration even than the 750i, despite the fact that the additional power is obtained in a way that does not require additional consumption of fuel.

The Miller cycle uses a higher expansion ratio than compression ratio (i.e., over-expansion) obtained by either early or late closing of the intake valves (EIVC and LIVC, respectively), and results in a smaller effective compression stroke; combustion and expansion proceed normally.

According to more than 10,000 respondents in a June 2015 Patron Survey conducted by OverDrive (complete survey results will be available at Digipalooza), device compatibility (74 %), ease of use (63 %), and immediately available content (52 %) are among the most influential criteria stated when obtaining digital content.