Example sentences for: thirds

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  • Nearly two thirds of studies (n = 38, 64.

  • But in 1932, Max Kleiber, an animal physiologist working at the University of California's agricultural station in Davis, re-examined the question, and found that, for mammals and birds, metabolic rate was mass 0.73 —closer to three quarters than two thirds.

  • The possibility of using a cocktail of these monoclonal antibodies for the evaluation of melanoma sentinel lymph node would require only one section as compared to three adjacent sections for each of the immunomarker, with resultant cost savings of approximately two thirds.

  • Frequent infection with herpesviruses has long been recognized in patients undergoing allogeneic transplantation [ 7 8 ] and in patients with acute leukemia [ 1 2 ] . In patients with acute leukemia it has been reported that as many as two thirds of seropositive patients can develop reactivation of herpes simplex virus infection during remission induction therapy [ 26 ] . The risk of CMV infection in acute leukemia patients was recognized almost 30 years ago [ 27 ] but is of particular concern in patients undergoing allogeneic transplantation [ 2 28 ] . EBV infection is frequently associated with post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorders in T cell-depleted grafts [ 29 ] . As recently reported, HHV-6 can also be associated with bone marrow supression [ 30 ] , encephalitis and pneumonitis [ 7 8 ] after allogeneic transplantation.

  • Two thirds of the studies had total sample sizes below 100 and many did not do power calculations to determine the required subject numbers.


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