(n.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Computer programs in BASIC and ALGOL languages have been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50065 (19 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, W. Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(2) This has been programmed in ALGOL 68 and in SNOBOL 4.
(3) For this algorithm an ALGOL program is given in the appendix too.
(4) Digital radiocardiography with linear programming, on the ALGOL language, by means of an ODRA-1204 computer is described.
(5) A simple program was written in Algol 1204 for the Polish digital computer ODRA 1204.
(6) An ALGOL program for iterative adjusting the parameters of the GOMPERTZ' function (with or without a constant term) to measured values is given in an appendix of the present paper.
(7) An ALGOL-program ready for use for correlation analysis and rank correlation methods is presented with a description of the program and explanations on choice of program parameters and concerning the input data arrangement.
(8) To perform the mentioned four numerical procedures computer programs are available which are written in ALGOL.
(9) Last time round, in 1976, it was languages like Fortran and Algol, which have become museum pieces.
(10) A programme, written in ALGOL, is briefly described that solves a set of these differential equations, and that can be used to simulate the radioactive labelling of a system of metabolite pools.
(11) Designed originally as a replacement for a similar system written in Algol 60, it now uses instead the more powerful and flexible Algol 68.
(12) The program was written in ALGOL 60 for the computer Robotron 300.
(13) A complete Algol program is given with all the necessary comments and descriptions and with results of testing examples.
(14) A number of algorhythms and programmes in the language "Algol-60" are proposed.
(15) An ALGOL computer programme is presented for the calculation of the results of amino acid analysis.
(16) The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of frequency components of EMG (electromyograph) signals obtained from masticatory muscles in term of the development from deciduous mixed and permanent dentition using FFT (Fast Fourie Transform) algolism.
(17) Examples of growth processes and their mathematical description by adjusted generalized logistic functions demonstrate the effectiveness of an ALGOL-program system for nonlinear approximation which is specialized to this function type.
(18) The numerical procedure and the various possibilities of the ALGOL-program for performing the approximation task are sketched.
(19) A computer program written mainly in a high level language (ALGOL), but with the sampling routine and certain calculations written in assembly language (SIR), has been developed to assess neuromuscular blockade in anaesthetized man by means of an Elliott 903 digital computer.
(20) It has been implemented in Algol 68 and in C. The method is illustrated by an example from the complex Samaritan pedigree.
Medusa
Definition:
(n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
(n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I keep seeing visions of a woman with Medusa-like grey hair," Langdon murmured.
(2) Investigation on important medusae and the chemistry of their nematocyst venoms have been expanding.
(3) Complications worth mentioning included three slight losses of vitreous, bleeding into the anterior chamber in four cases, and one loss of the anterior chamber with caput medusae of the iris and secondary opacification of the lens.
(4) Bacillus medusa was found to carry three phages or phagelike structures named phi med-1, phi med-2, and phi med-3.
(5) Small medusae possess a circulatory system of narrow tubes subdivided into several compartments by functional "sphincters."
(6) B. medusa produced small numbers of phi med-2 during growth.
(7) Normally, vertebral pathways with sufficient circulation prevent oedema of the limbs, bilateral varicoceles and caput medusae of the abdominal wall.
(8) It appears to participate in the formation of a surface layer on the parasporal inclusion of B. medusa.
(9) The responses of Aurelia medusae to pharmacological agents and ionic variation were classified into four response types: Type I, no response; Type II, inhibition of pacemaker activity; Type III, inhibition of both pacemakers and swimming muscles; and Type IV, increase in pacemaker output.
(10) In portal hypertension, three types of cutaneous portosystemic collaterals may develop: the 'classical' caput Medusae, enterostomal varices and scar or adhesion-related abdominal collaterals.
(11) The diagnosis was made by real-time ultrasonography, which showed echographic caput medusae with large afferent umbilical veins and efferent inferior superficial epigastric veins.
(12) Consideration of these properties of the organisation of this species suggests that normal slow swimming is controlled by a mechanism similar to that found in other medusae, while the escape response is the result of the action of the giant axons.
(13) The "RS" variant ("medusae head" surface colonies) is not pathogenic for mice and guinea pigs (even B. anthracis) if the tested strains are cultivated for years in ordinary solid nutrient media; the same morphological variants are strongly pathogenic (also B. subtilis), when the strains are recently isolated from infected animals.
(14) The comparison of the responses to the test solutions between the medusa, scyphistoma, and strobila showed that the neuromuscular systems are physiologically different.
(15) Abdominal varices consisting of a caput medusae and dilated mesenteric veins resulted in pooling of Tc-99m tagged red blood cells (RBC) within these dilated vessels in a 57-year-old man with severe Laennec's cirrhosis.
(16) Using a radioimmunoassay for the peptide sequence Arg-Phe-NH2 (RFamide), two peptides have now been purified from acetic acid extracts of this medusa.
(17) A novel method for separating porphyrin polycarboxylic acids is described and illustrated by its application to the direct analysis of biological (deep-sea medusae), clinical (urine) and chemical ('haematoporphyrin derivative') samples.
(18) Dr Elizabeth Sinskey, CEO of the World Health Organisation, combed her Medusa-like grey hair and thought unnecessarily of the glucocorticoid treatment that had destroyed her reproductive system.
(19) Angiography with Tc-99m labeled RBCs demonstrated an arterioportal fistula and a caput medusa.
(20) Similarly, the responses of adult medusae to ionic variation show no consistent pattern within various scyphomedusae.