Meaning of adjust in English

The translation of earlier research into general principles was rapidly adjusted into more particular guidelines once the show was on the air.

Table 1 shows bivariate associations between vascular and cognitive variables and depressive symptoms after adjusting for the potential confounding effects of gender and age.

Models for intervention effects adjusted for the baseline value of the dependent behavioural process variable, age, gender and medical co-morbidity.

Few studies have addressed this question using population-based cohorts and prospective designs, adjusting for known biomedical risk factors.

All analyses were adjusted for age, gender and total brain volume.

The cortisol analyses were adjusted for age and time of sample collection and not main language and deprivation.

We next adjusted for psychological state at age 23.

The monthly figures were adjusted to notional months of equal duration.

By adjusting for depression, few performance measures remained significantly different across the groups, however defined.

The means adjusted for age and gender are the regression coefficients for the dummy group variables in the regression.

Comparing adjusted and unadjusted effects will inform on confounding and effect mediation.

All costs were adjusted to reflect year 2000 dollars.

Pensions will also be adjusted if average life expectancy changes.

Models were adjusted for age, household occupational class and current employment status, and gender (where appropriate).

Depending on the predicted length of the sequence the elongation time and annealing temperature were adjusted.

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