sensitive technique

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sensitive
adjective
uk
/ˈsen.sɪ.tɪv/us
/ˈsen.sə.t̬ɪv/
easily upset by the things people say or do, or causing people to be upset, embarrassed, ...
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technique
noun[C or U]
uk
/tekˈniːk/us
/tekˈniːk/
a way of doing an activity that ...
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(Definition ofsensitiveandtechniquefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The zymogram is a simple andsensitivetechniqueused to detect proteolytic activity.
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However, our results show that serology, using a carefully defined cut-off, can be a highlysensitivetechniquefor most of the course of infection.
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A moresensitivetechniquemay be to focus on the very first trial, where competing forces may be weakest.
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The detection will be by laser-induced fluorescence, a highlysensitivetechnique, capable of parts-per-trillion sensitivity.
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Developed a highlysensitivetechniquefor the direct analysis of mercury in air, water, fish and soils.
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Near-infrared spectroscopy is, therefore, not a particularlysensitivetechnique, but it can be very useful in probing bulk material with little or no sample preparation.
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Currently, we do not have sufficiently sensitive techniques to detect planets with such small masses, except in rare circumstances.
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This, in turn, underlines the necessity of using very sensitive techniques to rule out this type of diagnosis.
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Therefore, to make it useful, employers need to develop sensitive techniques for collecting information on whether an employee has a disability.
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In 2008 his students re-analysed the 1952 samples using more sensitive techniques, such as high-performance liquid chromatography and liquid chromatographytime of flight mass spectrometry.
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Vanadium does however have a considerable incoherent scattering cross section which may cause problems for more sensitive techniques such as neutron inelastic scattering.
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