(a.) Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(2) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(3) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
(4) Precipitin tests had considerable advantages over other methods of serological diagnosis of influenza.
(5) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(6) When given chronically over 6 weeks the advantages of adding benserazide (50 mg kg-1 day-1) to levodopa (40 mg kg-1 day-1) were less marked and although more dopamine was present in the striatum than with levodopa given alone (200 mg kg-1 day-1) there was no evidence of any increase in its metabolites (HVA and DOPAC) and therefore of its turnover and utilisation.
(7) Examination of the pharmacokinetic profile of acitretin reveals its main advantage over etretinate.
(8) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
(9) This article discusses the advantages, clinical uses, limitations, and legal aspects of this mydriatic antagonist in optometric practice.
(10) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) While the mouse P388 cells were sensitive to OP in vitro, no effect was seen when OP was administered in vivo, even when schedules designed to take advantage of OP's time-dependent toxicity were used.
(12) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(13) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
(14) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(15) This indicates that the effective advantage of i.p.
(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) Advantages over other modes of treatment are discussed.
(18) Both targets were found more quickly in the high-probability location than in the other locations, but the advantage associated with targets in the high-probability location was larger for the inducing target than for the test target.
(19) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(20) Survival ranged from 2 to 20 M, with a median survival time of 6 M. Tolerance to the subsequent CT, normal tissue reaction to accelerated RT, and the theoretical advantage of accelerated RT over conventional RT for SCCL were evaluated.
Businesslike
Definition:
(a.) In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a black tie, Pistorius, 27, carried a black briefcase, and looked more composed and businesslike than at last year's bail hearings.
(2) He first encountered May when the pair stood against each other in the safe Labour seat of Durham in 1992, and recalled her as “very competent, very serious, very businesslike”.
(3) This violence comes from multiple sources, but some prominent ones appear to be the businesslike operations of crack distribution, the personal disorganization that surrounds and characterizes the crack-consuming environment, and the distortions of character that crack users describe as often accompanying significant binges of crack consumption.
(4) On that basis, the Democrat narrowly deserves to be re-elected … For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don't believe most of what he says.
(5) [...] Western diplomats have said they were impressed by Zarif's businesslike approach at the foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday and said he put "new ideas" on the table that they did not describe.
(6) Breathes's desk at Westword HQ is a classic American office cubicle, sober and businesslike, even though the shelves around his computer are filled with cigarette papers and joint holders.
(7) But it shouldn’t be too much to ask for cordial and businesslike relations to be established with Jewish groups.
(8) These were very businesslike discussions,” says one White House official.
(9) He has already said relations are going to be more businesslike , while Alexander has said the Liberal Democrats can no longer rely on the public learning about the differences within the coalition by osmosis.
(10) After his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said "the discussions were very substantive, businesslike," adding he hoped a solution could be found in a timely fashion.
(11) It is also possible that the next general round of improvement will result from the application of businesslike information management and marketing techniques.
(12) I think they have always been that way, but you have to be businesslike and professional and you have to work with people who aren't your natural bedfellows and that is being grownup in politics."
(13) Common to many of these problems is the lack of a businesslike orientation to RDFs and, in particular, lack of careful financial planning and management.
(14) In his campaign speech on Monday, Noda gave notice of a moderate, businesslike style of leadership, citing a Japanese poem to describe himself as more of a loach – a bottom-feeding freshwater fish – than a goldfish.
(15) "We are not going to leverage the value of the investments that we do make, unless we start to behave in a more businesslike and coherent way across the police service," said one contributor.
(16) The atmosphere was businesslike and meetings will continue this afternoon."
(17) New Labour is determined to bring a businesslike approach to Government and today, only ten days in to our term of office, I am launching a New Mission Statement for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
(18) Even clad in casual clothing and past retirement age, she retained a businesslike demeanor.
(19) Villa spent the first 10 minutes bemused by the movement and interchangeability of Chelsea's three-quarter line of Oscar, Willian and Eden Hazard as the visitors opened the game with businesslike intent, moving the ball around purposefully and always appearing to have a spare man.
(20) Picking up points against a Chelsea side beginning to look lean and businesslike again seemed a tall order.