(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.
Logarithm
Definition:
(n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of day to day variability in egg counts from individuals can be characterized by the linear relationship between the logarithms of the variances and means.
(2) A logarithmic relationship between closing tension and tensile strength was demonstrated using linear regression analysis with t = 6.18, p less than .0001, and R2 = .44.
(3) For the liver enzyme, the logarithm of the inhibition constant was linearly related to the number of carbon atoms in the saturated fatty acids whereas the muscle enzyme, which was generally more strongly inhibited, showed a nonlinear dependence.
(4) The results indicate that in confluent cultures, cells with high GGT activities have significantly higher cellular GSH content, and a linear correlation exists between the glutathione content and the logarithm of the GGT activity.
(5) The mean duration of the homosynaptic depression in healthy persons was 5200 ms. After the initial relative facilitation the time course of the homosynaptic depression corresponded to a logarithmic function of the interval between the conditioning and testing stimuli.
(6) This 20-h period was immediately followed by a 4-day logarithmic phase of virus production.
(7) The percentage inhibition of ATCase responds in a linear way to the logarithm of the concentration of PALA between 0.10 and 1.00 micrometer.
(8) There was a negative correlation (r = -0.59) between the logarithm of the spontaneous discharge rate and relative threshold at CF with the lowest spontaneous rate fibres having the highest thresholds and vice-versa.
(9) Mitochondrial membrane potential was not significantly affected by the cell culture density, as long as the cells were in the logarithmic phase of growth.
(10) The physiological effects of metronidazole on the growth, viability, fermentation end-product production and cellular morphology of Clostridium pasteurianum cells growing logarithmically were studied.
(11) The logarithm of the odds ratio between GTHR and c-erbA beta was 3.67, and therefore GTHR mapped to the c-erbA beta locus in this kindred.
(12) Logarithms of the rate of Ca2+ influx were plotted against values of delta psi.
(13) For B. subtilis, the logarithm of the inhibitory potency of most compounds increases linearly with the logarithm of the partition coefficient.
(14) By plotting logarithms of normalized radioactivities against PCR amplification cycles, straight lines were obtained with different slopes.
(15) The negative logarithm of the concentration displacing 50% of the tracer (pIC50), or producing 50% of the maximal contractile response (pEC50), was determined.
(16) When Monte Carlo simulations of clonal growth resulted in clones with large populations (> 50 cells), the population as a whole behaved in a deterministic fashion (logarithmic growth) similar to those observed in clinically observed neoplasms and consistent with other published models of tumour growth.
(17) The toxic effects of BaP to logarithmically growing NMuLi were inhibited 40% by 7,8 benzoflavone, and the inhibition was concentration dependent.
(18) Logarithmic conversion of the total spore count showed significant reduction in all indoor locations of air-conditioned homes.
(19) There was a close linear relationship (r = 0.903) between the optical density of the bioluminescent images and the logarithmic values of the tissue calcium ion concentration.
(20) Milk production per unit mammary wet weight, dry fat-free tissue, deoxyribonucleic acid, and ribonucleic acid were related to day of lactation by an equation of the form Y = aXbecX, where Y was milk production per unit mammary gland growth, X was day of lactation, e was the base of natural logarithms, and a, b, and c were constants.