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relative quantity - a quantity relative to some purpose

quantity, measure, amount - how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

enough, sufficiency - an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"

normality, N - (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter

absolute majority, majority - (elections) more than half of the votes

relative majority, plurality - (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)

goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipher - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

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Expression is represented as the normalized relative quantity (NRQ) of a target gene's expression with respect to the two reference genes: HvActin and HvGAPDH.

Expression Analysis of Nitrogen Metabolism-Related Genes Reveals Differences in Adaptation to Low-Nitrogen Stress between Two Different Barley Cultivars at Seedling Stage

Recall that the identification strategy associates innovations in the relative quantity of non-traded goods ([Y.sup.N]/[Y.sup.H]) as relative demand shocks and innovations in the relative price of non-traded goods ([P.sup.N]/[P.sup.T]) as relative supply shocks.

Non-traded goods and real exchange rate fluctuations: A structural VAR analysis

Relative quantity of Ki-67-positive cells (%) [+ or -] SD is shown (b) (p = 0.43).

Effect of Isolation Technique and Location on the Phenotype of Human Corneal Stroma-Derived Cells

In other words, the overall jump in the OER weight in December 1986 reflects a considerable increase in the relative quantity of OER, an increase that began in the 1970s.

Explaining the 30-year shift in consumer expenditures from commodities to services, 1982-2012

[3] Nonstandard abbreviations: NF1, neurofibromatosis type 1; dNF, dermal neurofibroma; REP, low-copy repeat; MPNST, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; SC, Schwann cell; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; MLPA, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism; qPCR, quantitative real-time PCR; UPL, Universal ProbeLibrary (Roche); LDR, linear dynamic range; LINE, long interspersed repeat element; L1PA, LINE in the L1 family; Cq, quantification cycle; RQ, relative quantity; NRQ, normalized relative quantity; NF, normalization factor; RCN, relative copy number; RF, rescaling factor; MMPA, microsatellite multiplex PCR analysis; MIQE, minimum information for publication of quantitative real-time PCR experiments.

Probe-based quantitative PCR assay for detecting constitutional and somatic deletions in the NF1 gene: application to genetic testing and tumor analysis

where Q = relative quantity, P = relative price, IR = informational reinforcement, and UR = utilitarian reinforcement.

An Econometric Examination of the Behavioral Perspective Model in the context of Norwegian retailing

Then the relative quantity of turns of single coil of two-layer winding

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In Western blotting, the determination of relative quantity of rE7, rNT-gp96 and rCT-gp96 bands showed considerable difference between patient and control serum samples.

Antibody detection against HPV16 E7 & GP96 fragments as biomarkers in cervical cancer patients