(n.) One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
(n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(2) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(3) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(4) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(5) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(6) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(7) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(8) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
(9) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(10) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(11) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(12) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
(13) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(14) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
(15) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(16) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.
(17) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(18) Exogenous administration of estrogen alone or combined with progesterone have been associated with increased plasma cortisol levels.
(19) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(20) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
Tradeoff
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tradeoffs between the fidelity of reconstructed data and the overall compression are examined.
(2) What is most important to a company might not be crucial to the public good, and focusing on any one ecosystem service often comes with tradeoffs in other areas.
(3) Enrollees will face tradeoffs between their desire for maximum freedom of choice of provider and higher premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses.
(4) Concerns include the timing of the various bills, with MPs keen to ensure the government does not bind its hands in the negotiations with the EU by drawing up restrictive rules on immigration, before establishing what the tradeoffs might be.
(5) In the past you didn’t need to fight for attention in the same way and now all kinds of media are converging and competing with each other, so really you’re in an attention economy.” Blank-Settle says that journalists should beware of attempting to do too much in six seconds: “In journalism there’s always the tradeoff between what you want to say in the story and the time you have to say it.
(6) Practically, all six functions are highly interrelated necessitating tradeoffs.
(7) The results also showed tradeoffs between complexity of word combinations and phonetic complexity of individual lexical items (phonetic product for words) for 4 of the 5 children.
(8) Reaction time and movement time effects were observed, but a speed-accuracy tradeoff was found only for rotations for which the direction-reversal strategy could be used.
(9) Deflation timing, however, involves a tradeoff between maximizing the external variables and minimizing the internal variables.
(10) Such "impossible" tradeoffs force people into choosing short-term needs over longer-term wellbeing.
(11) The results suggest that the intensity-time tradeoff for the investigated intensity interval is between 1.5 and 3 dB per halving of the duration.
(12) Based on the obtained results, design tradeoffs are identified and quantified, and guidelines for optimum designs are specified.
(13) Alert to a worsening tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, Keynesian policymakers tried to sustain the boom through income policy – controlling wage costs by concluding national agreements with trade unions.
(14) Using these techniques, analysts have addressed many important clinical issues including screening for and prevention of disease, tradeoffs among tests and treatments, and the interpretation of clinical data under conditions of uncertainty.
(15) As prospective reimbursement schemes and resource utilization groups (RUGs) are implemented, we expect that tradeoffs such as these will become even more critical than they are now.
(16) An experiment was conducted to determine whether information tradeoffs occurred when subjects attended selectively to one of two different structural levels of naturalistic scenes.
(17) Under stabilizing or equilibrium selection, the mean phenotypes take on values identical to those which would be predicted by an "optimization of fitness in the face of tradeoffs" approach.
(18) This note suggests that a sex specific size advantage may not favor sex change if the advantage is offset by other life-history tradeoffs.
(19) Only one respondent (4%) reported that he routinely informs patients of the issues and tradeoffs involved in deciding whether to use lower or higher osmolality media.
(20) The document says the push to keep Cheshire NHS’s overspend in 2017-18 to £3.5m by forcing through such unprecedented measures would result in “significant tradeoffs” that will harm patients and produce longer waiting times.