(n.) The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
(n.) The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(2) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(3) The second algorithm finds all subsequence alignments between the pattern and the test with at most k differences.
(4) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(5) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(7) We are now conducting prospective clinical trials with one service using the algorithm and the others acting as the control group.
(8) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(9) With the algorithm, conserved regions of one sequence are located by doing pairwise comparisons with other sequences, which is advantageous in planning site-directed mutagenesis studies.
(10) In this article we analyze the nature of the correspondence computation and derive a cooperative algorithm that implements it.
(11) An algorithm for the treatment of cryptococcosis complicating AIDS may shorten the duration of primary intravenous AB therapy.
(12) On the basis of this limited experience, we conclude that the use of such objective standards, in a computer-operated algorithm, is more accurate than routine radiographic assessment.
(13) [In therapy] I gradually came to the view that there isn't an algorithm for these things and that even if there was, what would be the point?
(14) The signals were processed digitally using three different algorithms: 1) simple linear regression (LR); 2) linear regression with drift correction achieved by adding to, or subtracting from the plethysmographic signal a term proportional to time (LRC); 3) Fourier analysis (FFT).
(15) We used a published algorithm to assess the suspected reactions for drug causation with the following results: 40 (14%) unlikely; 193 (66%) possible; 56 (19%) probable; and 3 (1%) definite.
(16) Thus the anomalous behaviour of the ICA1 and the Nova 8 was due to a discrepancy between the standard built-in algorithm and the characteristics of our serum pools.
(17) The algorithms involved are simple and a microprocessor-based automatic PCG analysis system using the proposed technique is being contemplated.
(18) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
(19) Our results show that although kriging is a statistically optimal method, it is not markedly better than simpler interpolation algorithms, though it is considerably more complex to use.
(20) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
Amortize
Definition:
(v. t.) To make as if dead; to destroy.
(v. t.) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.
(v. t.) To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.
Example Sentences:
(1) With recent recognition by many third party carriers this equipment may amortize itself rapidly but, more importantly, it may serve to identify neurological diseases of the bladder that are undetected by other conventional methods of investigation.
(2) If amortized additional capital costs are included, there is a 12% reduction in overall costs.
(3) Purchase and amortization of the pumps decreases the cost.
(4) If we were to freeze the system in its current state, amortize the development and network installation costs, and add projected maintenance costs for the clinical and library applications, our integrated information system would cost $2.8 million on an annual basis.
(5) Indirect costs for hospitals and physicians, including depreciation and amortization, debt service, utilities, malpractice insurance, administration, billing, registration, and medical records were not included.
(6) In addition, our criteria outline the characteristics of "distressed transactions" that, individually or collectively, we consider when forming an opinion on whether the resulting newly issued debt has "less value than the promise of the original securities," a primary condition of a distressed exchange or similar restructuring: The combination of any cash amount and principal amount of new securities offered is less than the original par amount; The interest rate is lower than the original interest rate; The new securities' maturities extend beyond the original; The timing of payments is slowed (eg zero-coupon from quarterly paying, or bullet from amortizing); or The ranking is altered to more junior.
(7) These include the impact of PACS on physician productivity, maintenance costs, discount rates, and the time period for amortization of capital goods.
(8) assumed the following functions: a) It filled up the masseter-zygomaticus-buccinator space forming an amortizing and a slipping platform for the masticatory muscles in action; b) in the baby, it resisted to the negative pressure which acted into the buccal cavity during sucking; c) its rich venous net, provided with valve-like structures, may be implicated in the exo-endocranial blood flow by means of the pterygoid plexus.
(9) These bundles appear to serve as a peculiar anchor or amortizing apparatus and its elasticity might be a factor of a change of the shape and direction of the canal vessels in the bone development process.
(10) Cost-efficiency: Amortized costs of monitoring systems that were apparently initially very expensive can be very low, especially in comparison with other capital outlays and the costs of disposable plastics and supplies used during anesthesia.
(11) In the present work are analyzed the most frequently met omissions and errors in the measurement and evaluation of the general vibrations, as well as the factors, which can effect the intensity of the general vibrations; constructive and technological peculiarities, technical state, rate of machine amortization, construction, damping qualities, and regulation of the seat, motion velocity, relief, type of the performed agricultural activity.
(12) The expenses for the amortization of the cost of the bunker, for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, for the employed staff and for the electric power respectively, represent the 22%, 5%, 43% and 2% of the total management cost (395 milions lire per year).
(13) The average purchase cost of an accelerator was 1113 milions lire and the amortization cost is 111 milions lire per year.
(14) This goal could be achieved through a selection of significant images and examinations, considerably reducing the cost of film reproduction and allowing the amortization of a partial PACS in about 5 or 6 years.
(15) The EU would have to modify the fiscal compact to exempt the callable capital and allow actual losses to be amortized over a number of years.
(16) Exclusive of equipment costs, amortization, and data processing, the cost per study is $33.81 (Canadian), resulting in a cost of $8,277.62 for each case diagnosed.
(17) the readiness to bear objective as well as psychological "costs" without guarantee of amortization, is only slight.
(18) Excluding amortization of material and personnel costs, findings confirmed a certain number of advantages for AN: gain in time of about 34%, decrease of about 14% in charges, and notably of 83% in expenditure on films and 50% on contrast media.
(19) The implicity of this technique is depending however on the amortic thinking.
(20) Calculations of the total population exposure from nuclear medicine procedures indicate the per capita dose (amortized over the entire population) is approximately 0.4 muSv (0.04 mrem), a negligible dose compared to natural background and total medical irradiation.