(v. t.) To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
(v. t.) To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
(v. t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
(v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(2) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(3) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
(4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(5) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(6) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(7) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(8) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(10) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(11) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(12) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
(13) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(14) The crude survival rate at 5 years was 83.3% (age-adjusted 96%), and at 10 years 53.8%).
(15) There were no relationships between blood pressure and calorie-adjusted intakes of fats, carbohydrates, sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium.
(16) In this paper we propose an alternative approach, based on a simple adjustment of the standard Pearson chi-square test for the equality of proportions.
(17) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
(18) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(19) Adjustment for possible mechanisms correlated with social class (marital status, smoking, time of first antenatal visit) decreased the higher occurrence of low birthweight infants in the low educational groups.
(20) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
Aline
Definition:
(v. t.) To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.
Example Sentences:
(1) They showed three typical features: pneumo-encephalography demonstrated a fifth anterior ventricular dilatation; in both patients dermatoglyphic findings showed a thenar exit of the Aline and a vertical palmar alignement; Growth hormone and sulfatation factor blood concentration were low but within normal limits.
(2) The film will be based on a screenplay which the studio bought last year for a seven-figure sum from The Devil Wears Prada writer Aline Brosh McKenna in the wake of Alice in Wonderland's spectacular box-office success.
(3) A virus, designated Sikhote-Alin, was isolated in 1970 from Ixodes persulcatus ticks collected from a wild boar in the Primorie region (U.S.S.R.) Sikhote-Alin virus showed no haemagglutinating activity and no antigenic relationships with arboviruses of 12 antigenic groups, 17 ungrouped tick-borne arboviruses, porcine enteroviruses and coxsackie A (types 1-18) viruses.
(4) All of these isoenzymes had high organic peroxidase activity and, on the basis of amino acid analysis, substrate specificities and affinity for non-substrate ligands, appear to belong to the family of glutathione S-transferases that have been termed alpha [Mannervik, Alin, Guthenberg, Jensson, Tahir, Warholm & Jörnvall (1985) Proc.
(5) They insist on early diagnosis and treatment of recent fractures, with a successful result if the ulnar hache become rightly alined.
(6) I. pavlovskyi is absent from the eastern macroslope of Sykhote--Alin, rare in the central part of the ridge and is quite common in western Sykhote--Alin where it accounts for no more than 10% of total collections with I. persulcatus.
(7) Two months ago one of the accused men, Alin Turcu, lost a libel action against the NoW.
(8) They didn’t have to do this in this manner, that will alineate Nato partners and will be damaging to Polish standing in Nato.
(9) The specific composition and number of midges in nest biotopes of birds of forest formations of Western Sikhote-Alin are given.
(10) An average density of ticks in forests of western Sykhote--Alin is 50 to 80 active adults per hectare, maximum density - 150 specimens.
(11) Aline Skaf, now his wife, was found to have suffered facial injuries but charges were not brought after she maintained she had sustained the injuries in a fall.
(12) According to season variations of the epidemic process the territory of Sikhote Alin has been divided into two separate parts--northern and southern, with morbidity peak in June and July, respectively.
(13) Light microscopy showed no specific TSH immunostaining although electron microscopy revealed numerous secretory granules alined along the plasma membrane.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close In Osnabrück, singer Alin Coen performed her song A No Is a No .
(15) It was a neat layoff for Agüero’s first goal and some brilliantly alert play, in the 13th minute, to dispossess Alin Tosca, sprint clear then pick out Silva for the opening goal.
(16) Aline Schuiling of ABN Amro also thinks German is set for a spell of more moderate growth.
(17) The GSTs are dimers, the subunits of which belong to three multigene families, Alpha (subunits 1, 2, 8 and 10), Mu (subunits 3, 4, 6, 9 and 11) and Pi (subunit 7) [Mannervik, Alin, Guthenberg, Jennsson, Tahir, Warholm & Jörnvall (1985) Proc.
(18) The most active natural foci of tick-borne encephalitis have been discovered in the Sikhote-Alin Mountain range.
(19) As a result of registrations conducted in 1973 the density of ticks populations from the main landscape zones of eastern Sikhote-Alin (from watershed spruce-abietic forests to coastal oak woods) was estimated for the first time.
(20) Support for this proposal includes: (1) reversal of thymine inhibition of efrotomycin biosynthesis by dihydrouracil and N-carbamoyl-beta-aline, two intermediates of the catabolic pathway; (2) incorporation of [5,6-3H]-uracil into efrotomycin with a relative molar specific activity of approximately 0.5, close to the theoretical maximum; and (3) 13C coupling at C4 and C5 of efrotomycin after feeding resting cells with [4,5-13C]-uracil.