(n.) The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
(n.) An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.
(n.) The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(2) Three motives are found for evaluating the quality of human life: allocation of scarce medical resources, facilitating clinical decision making, and assisting patients towards autonomous decision making.
(3) A total of 143 men who had recently had a myocardial infarction were randomly allocated to either a group receiving intensive rehabilitation or a control group, their outcome being examined after six months.
(4) A national plan is proposed for the equitable allocation of extrarenal organs, with particular reference to the liver.
(5) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(6) Sixty-four subjects were pair-matched for sex, age, weight and sitting systolic blood pressure, and were randomly allocated to receive one of two types of protein supplement: one containing proteins from meat, the other proteins from non-meat sources.
(7) Two hundred and three patients with endoscopically proven duodenal ulcers were randomly allocated to treatment with either rioprostil 600 micrograms nocte or ranitidine 300 mg nocte for 4 weeks in a prospective double-blind study.
(8) Comparison of the dsRNA profiles enabled each isolate to be allocated to 1 of 7 distinct dsRNA profile types.
(9) Since the regime was introduced, we have been undertaking work to ensure that senior manager responsibilities are properly allocated and understood in firms.
(10) Forty-one rats were allocated to one of 3 groups: group I (n = 13) were normally nourished rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, group II (n = 16) were semistarved rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, and group III (n = 12) were normally nourished rats which underwent sham operations.
(11) Bed allocation across surgical services was influenced by factors other than medical suitability.
(12) A model of the reproductive ecology of female dusky salamanders was used to investigate the allocation scheme that a female might use to maximize her reproductive success.
(13) Personal attendants (welfare assistants) could be allocated to each of the more severely handicapped children.
(14) The patients were randomly allocated into four groups.
(15) The follow-up period lasted 3 years, the allocation to drug treatment was randomized and double blind.
(16) Aboriginal people who live in the north-west and other parts of the state are deserved of your allocation, your allocation of the financial assistance grants, because we give it to West Australia to do that,” Scullion said.
(17) This information will be used to target prevention campaigns to high-risk populations, and to determine future allocations of health funds.
(18) A sample of physician-referred chronic insomniacs was randomly allocated to either progressive relaxation, stimulus control, paradoxical intention, placebo or no treatment conditions.
(19) The Londoners had already used up their allocated four "association trained" players with Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole, Ross Turnull and Daniel Sturridge, leaving Bertrand ineligible.
(20) Twenty-two of the studies included random assignment of subjects to various groups, and the remaining 22 investigations used some nonrandom method to determine subject allocation.
Apportionment
Definition:
(n.) The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
Example Sentences:
(1) Avian intrafusal fibers are separable into types based on differences in myosin heavy chain composition and motor innervation, but apportionment of these fiber types to individual spindles is more variable in birds than in mammals.
(2) The model is evaluated for a wide range of notional patterns of noise exposure, leading to a simple equation which predicts the relative attribution of disability to previous noise exposures sufficiently accurately for the purposes of apportionment.
(3) A related approach is a system of " formulary apportionment " where companies are taxed on the basis of their economic activity and income within a particular geographic jurisdiction rather than arbitrary allocation of costs to geographical areas.
(4) The United States already uses formula apportionment internally; it sees the virtue of this system.
(5) That’s the beauty of the reformed corporate tax system, known as formula apportionment, that I’m supporting.
(6) For years, they have been blocking attempts to move to an apportionment system within the European Union.
(7) As of now, Clinton has a lead of just over two-tenths of a percent over Sanders in the overall apportionment of delegates in Iowa.
(8) The District Economics Group devised the concept of “ single sales factor apportionment ” – a mechanism that treats company income as a function of how much is sold in a particular country rather than how much profit is declared in that country; thus it proposes taxing corporations based on where sales are made, not where profits are reported.
(9) Work should start at once on the establishment of a fair apportionment of emissions country by country, based on the principle of contraction and convergence.
(10) The results are incompatible with subject-relative displacement as the sole determining factor of motion induction and they present some difficulties for the hypothesis that induced motion is the result of the apportionment of the objective displacement of the frame.
(11) Although the amount of money spent was higher in each year, little change occurred in the relative size or the apportionment of the funds.
(12) The modular rotor design consists of a discoidal center insert for eluent and sample apportionment, the chromatographic columns, and flow-through cuvetts-all mounted on an aluminum base plate.
(13) So, this paper shows the apportionment loads of dental bridges and the dependence of the elastic constants of abutment teeth.
(14) The effects of explicit strategy training, generalized instruction, and no training on recall performance and apportionment of study time were compared.
(15) In an effort to determine that role, a questionnaire survey was conducted of the apportionment, direction, duties, and training of anesthesia technicians in teaching departments.
(16) The increase in cell volume (from electronic cell sizing) and the apportionment of this volume amongst the nuclear, cytoplasmic, and mitochondrial subcellular compartments (from electron microscopy) were studied throughout the cell division cycle in partially synchronized cultures of Chinese hamster V79-S171 cells.
(17) Source apportionment of the mutagenic activity observed in urban air shows that vehicles and residential heating are major contributors to the ambient mutagenicity of the aerosol fraction.
(18) It should always be remembered that the assumptions determine much of the final solution, including the apportionment of trend to the different components, age, period, or cohort.
(19) Apportionment of liability for noise-induced hearing loss is required in medicolegal work when two or more separate instances of noise exposure have occurred.
(20) In general there are insufficient audiometric records to determine how much hearing loss was caused by each noise exposure, and hence there is insufficient information on which to base apportionment of liability.