(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.
Quota
Definition:
(n.) A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
Example Sentences:
(1) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
(2) Despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men, just 17% of the 2,500 delegates are female.
(3) Two weeks ago, the production quotas for all colony brigades was arbitrarily increased by 50 units.
(4) In the method of blood taking without previous desinfection of the skin the quota of positive blood cultures increased by the twofold to threefold per culture and test person (5.7 to 18.8% and 11.3 to 26.3%, respectively).
(5) A representative sample of 400 people, using quota sampling in 40 randomly selected electoral wards, completed a schedule structured part self administered questionnaire.
(6) This good quota at the beginning of the group sessions can be explained of this high acceptance rate appears to be a direct result of the group meetings.
(7) Theymake up 77% of the UK's fishing boats, but only get 4% of the fishing quota.
(8) 21 ringed fibres were found, raises the quota to 6.7%.
(9) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
(10) I think there are issues in the fishing industry with quotas, but those are things that can be negotiated.
(11) Germany and France demand binding refugee quotas for EU members Read more “Those arriving have been raised in another religion and represent a radically different culture.
(12) Ofcom has already moved to allow more regional hubs for local commercial radio, relax local programming quotas, and encourage digital stations.
(13) The increase of the protein quota as well as that attained by means of introducing in the diet of soybean protein isolate reduces the therapeutic effect of the diet on hemostasis.
(14) To check on impressionistic assertions that the United States is becoming an "age-irrelevant society," a quota sample of white-collar and blue-collar men and women (ages eighteen to seventy; N = 462) was studied with a questionnaire that asked for designation of the most suitable ages for various role transitions and age-related attributes.
(15) She had made her daily quota of cash needed to pay her bills.
(16) But according to those at the Brussels conference, quotas work.
(17) It also indicates that there is considerable value in production research which gives more precise knowledge of production systems, thus allowing producers to respond optimally to quota cuts.
(18) The 14-member committee – whose only woman is Northampton MP Sally Keeble – stopped short of calling for quotas on female board representation in financial firms or for legal changes to boost the profile of women in the City.
(19) Rightly, they have concerns over maintaining the integrity of affirmative action quotas.
(20) For weeks EU governments have been embroiled in a battle over commission demands to ease Italy’s burden by creating a new quotas system sharing asylum-seekers across the union.