(1) The depth effect was reversed, for example, from clockwise to anticlockwise, when the trailing edges of the targets were in alignment.
(2) Magnetic stimulation used a 9 cm diameter coil centred at the vertex; current in the coil flowed either clockwise or anticlockwise when viewed from above.
(3) The first oscillation was in an anticlockwise direction and the damping extended over 20 periods.
(4) In desensitized preparations a majority of heads displayed anticlockwise curvature, whereas intact heads were usually seen curved clockwise.
(5) The hybridization results thus demonstrate that (i) the regulation of the argECBH gene cluster in E. coli is under transcriptional control, (ii) the orientation of transcription is divergent, (iii) E gene transcribes anticlockwise, whereas the rest of the genes, C, B, and H, transcribe clockwise, and (iv) the position of the promoter(s) and operator(s) is located between the E and C genes of the argECBH cluster.
(6) Gene orientation was in the anticlockwise ("silent") direction.
(7) A P0 peak in the PSTH was never produced by an anticlockwise stimulation [corrected] at intensities which we could explore with the technique.
(8) Three of the 4 patients had anticlockwise rotation of the heart, which displaced the apex.
(9) In normal subjects, right FDI responses are larger with anticlockwise currents than with clockwise [corrected] currents at the same stimulation strength and vice versa.
(10) Atrial flutter is a right intra-atrial macroreentry of anticlockwise (common flutter) or clockwise (atypical flutter) rotation, maintained by anisotropic conduction around two pivotal zones located at the posterior and inferior part of the atrium.
(11) They formed a characteristic lattice, with two arrays of fibres running diagonally in a clockwise and an anticlockwise direction, and making an angle of 50 degrees-55 degrees with the longitudinal axis of the intestine.
(12) The relationship between pharmacologic effect and morphine concentrations in ventricular CSF resulted in an anticlockwise hysteresis curve.
(13) The CT studies commonly show a Yakovlevian anticlockwise torque (taking the nose as 12 o'clock), with the left occipital pole longer and often extending across the midline toward the right and a wider right hemisphere in its central and frontal portions and frequent forward protrusion of the right frontal pole.
(14) The orientation of the ribbons in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction reflects the polarity of the wall lattice of the MT with which they are associated.
(15) Clockwise and anticlockwise cervical stimulation were performed over C5, C7 and T2 spinous processes.
(16) A Highways Agency spokesman said: "As a precaution, the east tunnel will be closed to northbound, anticlockwise traffic from 4am with the possibility of gales affecting the Queen Elizabeth II bridge which normally carries clockwise, southbound traffic from the M25 across the Thames."
(17) Translation (and transcription) of phoA is therefore in the anticlockwise direction relative to the conventional E. coli linkage map.
(18) Immediately following excision of the caudal half of the tectum, a piece of the tectal tissue was dissected from the remaining rostral half-tectum, and then reimplanted to the same half-tectum after either 180 or 90 degrees anticlockwise rotation around the dorsoventral axis in the first experimental group.
(19) By restriction mapping Tn5 insertions in pKM101, which reduced pKM101-mediated alleviation of restriction, were shown to be located within the BglIIB fragment approximately 11 kb anticlockwise from the RI site of pKM101.
(20) When required to rotate through exactly twice 360 degrees clockwise (rightwards) or anticlockwise (leftwards) with reduced sensory input, dextrals, especially females, showed a rightwards bias and sinistrals a leftwards tendency.
Cosine
Definition:
(n.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Example Sentences:
(1) algebraic sum of these three cosine functions yielded a circadian waveform with peak-times occurring near 0300 and 1130 hr and a trough-time about 2200 hr.
(2) The EMG data were fit with a nonlinear, multiple cosine function, which allowed the identification of one, two, or sometimes three separate cosine peaks.
(3) The compression technique is a variation of the Consultive Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy Joint Photograph Experts Group compression that suppresses the blocking of the discrete cosine transform except in areas of very high contrast.
(4) Data were fit using a two-step sine and cosine regression for each 24-h period.
(5) Diurnal periodicity in bradyarrhythmia (sinoatrial block, atrioventricular block) and heart rate was analyzed by the least square fit of 24-h cosines.
(6) In comparison with APO-UNSUS rats APO-SUS rats showed significantly more spike-wave discharges, especially during the dark period: both the mesor and the amplitude of the optimal cosine fitted to the data were significantly increased, whereas neither the acrophase nor the period length (24 h) differed.
(7) To implement a picture archiving and communication system, clinical evaluation of irreversible image compression with a newly developed modified two-dimensional discrete cosine transform (DCT) and bit-allocation technique was performed for chest images with computed radiography (CR).
(8) Histopathological changes as shown in sections stained with hematoxylin and cosin include patchy areas of colloid degeneration and thickening of the walls of some blood vessels in 10 out of 15 marasmic cases.
(9) The modulation depth showed a close to cosine relation with the angle between the preferred axis and the stimulus rotation axis.
(10) Curvature-increment thresholds were measured for contour curvatures from 0.31 to 10.65 deg-1, for grating spatial frequencies of 4.0 and 16.0 cycles per degree (cpd), and for gratings in either sine or cosine phase at the point of maximum curvature.
(11) The EFP nocturnal decline in LH did not conform to a cosine rhythm.
(12) According to acrophases of a fitted cosine curve and visual inspection on chronograms, the phases of circadian rhythms were delayed to different degrees in the evening shifts with a minimum of about 1 h for oral temperature and a maximum of about 4 h for urinary free noradrenaline.
(13) The acrophases (maxima of the adjusted cosine curve) occurred at 23:39, 07:59, 08:37 and 13:25 h, respectively.
(14) The fit of a 24-hr cosine function was able to reject the null hypothesis of amplitude = O in the majority of patients under intensive care.
(15) A compression technique based on the discrete cosine transform takes the viewing factors into account by compressing the changes in the local brightness levels.
(16) When two drifting cosine gratings are superimposed, they will, under appropriate conditions, form a coherently moving two-dimensional pattern whose resultant direction of motion may either be between (type I), or outside (type II) the directions of the two components.
(17) In the second experiment, DLs were obtained for linear, exponential, and raised-cosine onset envelopes at rise-time values between 10 and 40 msec.
(18) The new nonlinearity hypothesis cannot account for the results obtained with sine-phase test stimuli, though it gives a better account of the results with cosine-phase stimuli than does the early nonlinearity hypothesis which was tested and rejected by Nachmias and Rogowitz (1983).
(19) The gonadotropin secretory pattern was subjected to cosine analysis for identifying rhythmicity.
(20) Two-cosine functions often provided the best fit to the EMG data.