(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.
Weir
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Wear
Example Sentences:
(1) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
(2) The truth is, though, that Weir does not seem to favour one race over any other.
(3) Conflicting guidelines for excisions about the alar base led us to develop calibrated alar base excision, a modification of Weir's approach.
(4) With a 10th of Weir's workforce based in the rest of Britain, the EU's pension rules would mean the firm would need to pay off the company pension scheme's £60m deficit far more quickly or break the UK scheme up; both would mean extra costs.
(5) But then Weir has won the London Marathon six times and beat Hug by a single second in the 2012 race.
(6) Others may argue, as former US Olympic skater Johnny Weir has, that what they define as “politics” shouldn’t enter into the equation of whether a country is fit to host the Games.
(7) As Fiona Weir, chief executive of single parents charity Gingerbread, said today: "We fear that many parents will be pressured by their ex and by the new charges to stay out of the new system, and instead will enter into a private arrangement that offers no guarantee of regular, reliable income for their children."
(8) Weir, who had been regarded as a candidate to replace former boss Eric Daniels, and Kane are potentially entitled to around £1.7m and £1.6m each.
(9) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
(10) A similar spirit was invested in several stand-out movie roles: as an unconventional but inspirational English teacher in Peter Weir's Dead Poet's Society (1989); a homeless hobo and sort of holy fool in The Fisher King (1991), directed by Terry Gilliam; and a good-humoured therapist, for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997).
(11) Today the Environment Agency estimates that 70% of London's 600km river network is concreted, covered over, interrupted by weirs or otherwise modified.
(12) Fiona Weir, chief executive, said: "A family having a second child could be over £1,200 worse off this year.
(13) The covariance of inbred relatives from a population in linkage and identity equilibrium in the presence of dominance and epistasis is formulated using a similar procedure to that which B. S. Weir and C. C. Cockerham used to derive a general expression for the genotypic variance.
(14) Analysts at UBS said Weir was "one of the most attractively positioned mining equipment businesses" with a strong after sales market and improving outlook for orders in 2014.
(15) You know,' says Weir, 'it all gets very annoying, being misunderstood.'
(16) The weir consists of longitudinal external (small) and internal (large) ribs containing cross-striated microfilaments and connected by a membrane.
(17) Philip Landau is an employment lawyer at Landau Zeffertt Weir
(18) Amy Weir, the chair of the board, said she believed there should be a debate on the pros and cons of mandatory reporting under which those responsible for the care of children should be obliged to pass on concerns about abuse to the police or other authorities.
(19) Although finding himself in general agreement with Weir, Murray disagrees with the latter's acceptance of very limited active euthanasia, and believes that more attention could have been paid to the social contexts of moral beliefs and to the political aspects of the debate over newborn care.
(20) The weir consists of interdigitating ribs all of which form one circle, i.e.