(1) Alphaxalone and endogenous steroid hormone metabolites inhibit the binding of [35S]-t-butyl bicyclophosphorothionate in some regions, enhance it in others and give biphasic concentration-dependence in others, apparently the result of algebraic summation of two effects involving regional-dependent enhancement or inhibition.
(2) When likelihood ratios are expressed as an algebraic function, maximum values are easily determined, hence fixing the limits of DNA analysis.
(3) Older subjects gave higher absolute error correction scores especially at the low error discriminability level, and the younger subjects did not show the negative correction bias (algebraic error) as suggested by the performance of the two older groups.
(4) Many tasks (e.g., solving algebraic equations and running errands) require the execution of several component processes in an unconstrained order.
(5) algebraic sum of these three cosine functions yielded a circadian waveform with peak-times occurring near 0300 and 1130 hr and a trough-time about 2200 hr.
(6) Parameters of quantitative genetic models have traditionally been estimated by either algebraic manipulation of familial correlations (or familial mean squares), biometric model fitting, or multiple-group covariance structure analysis.
(7) The slight diminution of this increase when (+)-erythro-DOPS was administered after inhibition of peripheral decarboxylase, might result from the algebraic sum of two inversely acting processes: suppression of NE synthesis in the capillary walls and enhancement of parenchymatous NE in some brain areas.
(8) The effect of self fertilization on the distribution of genetic types in a population can be represented algebraically by a linear transformation.
(9) Theories of denture retention have suffered from confusion of model, algebraic errors, and misapprehension of the physics of capillarity, adhesion and cohesion, as well as the role of atmospheric pressure.
(10) This derivation, stemming from first principles and founded on experimental data, does not quantitatively specify the additive (K'1) or multiplicative constant (K'2), but constrains the algebraic relationship of QT as a function of R-R.
(11) An algebraic analysis of patterns of hospitalization and case-control selection demonstrates that Berkson's bias will be avoided if both cases and controls are chosen from the community or if he = 0.
(12) By simple algebraic manipulation, Zelman introduced a pair of new reflection coefficients, and a third new parameter gamma which he misleadingly calls the "deviation from the dilute solution approximation."
(13) He merely wanted to highlight how Islam, which produced algebra and kept safe the Greek philosophers of antiquity in the middle ages, had lost its way scientifically by focusing too much on the study of religion.
(14) The graphic representation of family data for the computation of the coefficients of inbreeding [F] and relationship [r] can be replaced by an algebraic method.
(15) Traditional "stimulus-time-locked signal averaging" of human EEG, as usually practiced in both clinical and basic contexts, assumes the superposition principle of algebraic summation for a linear time series.
(16) Analysis of an algebraic model of multi-level exposure misclassification reveals that all odds ratios based on the misclassified data are constrained between the nonmisclassified odds ratio for the most extreme category and the inverse of this value.
(17) Then the integral equation is reduced to a system of algebraic equations of z - 1th degree with N + 1 unknowns.
(18) In the Appendix to this paper an algebraic relation is given which must be satisfied for two cysteine residues to make a disulfide bond.
(19) Understanding patterns that are associated with survival or death may require alternative mathematic approaches, such as group and set theory manipulated by principles of Boolean algebra.
(20) Concordance-dependent ascertainment is easily modeled algebraically; non-independent ascertainment is more complex and we here propose a model based on survival analysis.
Mensuration
Definition:
(n.) The act, process, or art, of measuring.
(n.) That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two systems of mensuration are utilized in 58 case studies.
(2) While the calvaria shares some anatomical features with Asian Homo erectus specimens, it exhibits a broader suite of morphological and mensural characteristics suggesting affinities with early Homo sapiens fossils from Asia, Europe, and Africa as well as demonstrating that the Narmada calvaria possesses some unique anatomical features, perhaps because the specimen reflects the incoherent classificatory condition of the genus Homo.
(3) The results are reported of 38 ultrasonographic in vivo mensurations of intraindividual differences in axial thickness between a cataractous lens in one eye and a biomicroscopically clear or slightly cataractous lens (incipient deep cortical opacity) in the other.
(4) We have obtained high-resolution magnetic resonance brain images of first-episode schizophrenic and normal control subjects and, with a computerized mensuration system, determined the volumes of the different components of the entire ventricular system.
(5) They give mensurations and specific features (spermatheca, cibarium, pharynx).
(6) Mensural values of blood stream stages and cross-transmission studies defined the trypanosome species from mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus, as con-specific with Trypanosoma cervi, the trypanosome found in elk from the same locality.
(7) The embryos shared in common: holoprosencephaly, arhinencephaly sensu stricto (absence of olfactory nerve fibers, bulbs, and tracts), presence of a proboscis, synophthalmia with two lens vesicles, a retarded telencephalic wall, absence of the mediobasal part of the telencephalon (the future septal area and the commissural plate: future anterior commissure and corpus callosum), irregularity of the diencephalon, mensural changes in the brain, absence of the rostral part of the notochord and consequent cranial defects, and small ganglia of the cranial nerves.
(8) The study of the sternal movements by the use of biometry mensurations of 62 young adult men allows to precise the respiratory variations of the Louis's angle and sternal displacements in the sagittal plane.
(9) The paper also includes an account of retinal mensuration (dimensions, area, etc.)
(10) As a result cross-sectional studies gave way to longitudinal studies and X-ray techniques were added to purely mensurational procedures.
(11) A more accurate mensuration to predict biologic behavior might be one that takes into account the three-dimensional volume of the neoplasm.
(12) They give for each of them mensurations, drawings and differential diagnostic with related species or subspecies.
(13) The present analysis addressed the reliability of human dental mensuration, with special reference to intra- and inter-observer error, the effect of time and of tooth type.
(14) The concept of the fetal-pelvic index is one in which the fetal head and abdominal circumferences (ultrasonographic mensuration) are compared with the respective maternal pelvic inlet and midpelvic circumferences (x-ray pelvimetry).
(15) Hippocampal volumes were calculated with the use of a computerized mensuration system developed for detailed morphometric assessment.
(16) Limitations in imaging and mensuration methodology that is available currently for quantitative measurement of anatomic structures have prompted the development of a computerized system to study brain morphometry.
(17) Mensurational data were derived from cephalograms of 72 patients (44 male and 28 female subjects) with cleft lip only (n = 38) or cleft lip with varying degrees of alveolar cleft (n = 34).
(18) To attain the percentiles curves of the ultrasonic parameters we applied 5400 mensurations of the biparietal diameter and 1300 mensurations of the thorax.
(19) In mensuration by digitiser on three occasions from a single photograph of a given eye the mean deviation rate was about 0.7%, and the mean deviation rate of 10 successive exposures of one eye was 3.5%.
(20) Although both systems displayed improved post-SMT scores, one system appeared to be a more sensitive form of mensuration, while the other is more inclusive, not depending on radiographic findings alone.