To confirm or infirm

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

However, in ants such as Camponotus sp., attacks start with threats (mandible opening), bites and immobilization and do not result in immediate death – workers guarding narrow nest entrances should therefore have more time to confirm or infirm their original reaction and release nestmates in case of a false alarm.

More research is needed to confirm or infirm this difference in pattern.

There is thus need to confirm or infirm those results prospectively with an adequately designed and powered trial.

Therefore, it is not possible to confirm or infirm that adolescent athletes have a better long-term musculoskeletal health than their less active peers.

When B. pseudomallei appeared resistant to cotrimoxazole, Minimum inhibitory concentrations were determined using the E-test diffusion method (AB Biodisk) to confirm or infirm resistance [ 1].

Further structural and molecular studies of enamel layer formation in this armadillo species are however needed in order to confirm or infirm this hypothesis.

To further confirm or infirm the above conclusion, we investigated the ability of senescent NHEKs to generate PSNE clones as a function of their level of macroautophagic activity and, as this activity is induced by the accumulation of oxidative damages, as a function of their steady-state level of ROS.

We are currently carrying out a comparative genomics study of M. abscessus and M. chelonae (http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/spip/Mycobacterium-chelonae-and.html), which should make it possible to confirm or to infirm this hypothesis.

Based on the combination of our reviewed sources and data outside the field of sleep studies, or from other geographical locations, we defined hypotheses to be confirmed or infirmed, which allowed to summarize a research agenda.

As in forensic pathology [ 39], microscopic examination of small tissue biopsies (0.7 × 0.7 cm) is a requisite to complement non invasive methods because it allows an initial diagnosis to be precisely confirmed or infirmed [ 17, 35, 40, 41].

The manuscript is now much easier to read and comprehend for someone like me who is not directly involved in this field: it is now much easier to see what was already known, what the speculations and hypotheses presented are, and to see how these could be confirmed or infirmed by the predictions made.