efficacy
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These breaks are a welcome respite from long stretches of sitting and screen-based learning, which is common in some classrooms despite questions about its efficacy.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Whether that estimate is conservative will largely depend on the magnitude of the efficacy of Novartis’s drug and the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
He added efficacy also depended on the scale of the intervention, and that controlling populations this way risked becoming a "forever enterprise."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
A spokesman added: "All pet parasite treatments undergo rigorous scientific assessment by independent regulatory authorities before approval for use, and their safety and efficacy continue to be monitored."
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
That’s the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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To get a little technical, the Pfizer data, in particular, had wide confidence intervals—basically, the efficacies are more like pretty good estimates, than numbers that the scientists are really certain of.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2022
For young kids, there are now two vaccines available with very similar mechanisms but different doses, dosing intervals and efficacies.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2022
That would make it still well above the 50% threshold needed for FDA authorization, but would pale in comparison to the 90-plus efficacies of other COVID-19 vaccines.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 25, 2021
Further tests would be needed to judge how much the 2P mutation contributes to the overall efficacies of the frontrunner vaccines.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 31, 2020
That these two are different will easily be clear to anyone who passes in review their respective efficacies.
From The Consolation of Philosophy by H. R. (Henry Rosher) James
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