(1) This paper considers and analyses the use of Credit Accumulation and Transfer Schemes (CATS) and Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) in nurse education.
(2) Hypothesis-testing abilities were assessed using a modification of the discrimination-learning paradigm employed by Nelson, Kamhi, and Apel (1987) that was designed to minimize the short-term memory demands of the task.
(3) APEL (Assessment of Prior Experiential Learning) gives the practitioner the opportunity to claim further exemption from study based on relevant experience declared in a professional portfolio.
(4) In phosphatidylserine membranes the decrease in the conductance of the gramicidin A single channel caused by calcium is attributed to a reduction of surface potential and to a direct blocking of the pore (Apell et al.
(5) APEL has opened up opportunities for a move away from the traditional patterns of prerequisites for nurse education and openings for direct entry to both basic nurse education and also post registered courses.
(6) These services are as follows: "Tele-apel" in Belgrade, "Klic v duŝevni stiski" in Ljubljana, "SOS telephone" in Subotica and "Tele-apel" in Sarajevo.
(7) A distinction will be made between APL and Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) although the procedures and processes for assessing them will be shown to be the same.
(8) This phosphopeptide is part of the conserved sequence shared with neuromodulin and also corresponds to the PKC phosphorylation site on neuromodulin (Apel, E. D., Byford, M. F., Au, D., Walsh, K. A., and Storm, D. R. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 2330-2335).
(9) Leaf thionins of barley have been identified as a novel class of cell wall proteins, toxic to plant pathogenic fungi, and possibly involved in the defense mechanism of plants (Bohlmann, H., Clausen, S., Behnke, S., Giese, H., Hiller, C., Reimann-Philipp, U., Schrader, G., Barkholt, V., and Apel, K., (1988) EMBO J.
(10) Recent work has shown that dihydropyridine-type calcium channel blockers such as nitrendipine protect against ischemic liver damage in the rat in vivo (Thurman RG, Apel E and Lemasters JJ, J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 12: S113-S116, 1988), suggesting that calcium antagonists may have clinical value in preventing ischemic and hypoxic hepatic injury.
(11) The experimental approach was based on the ability of electrophysiological (single-channel) experiments to resolve the number of hybrid channel types that could form between gramicidin A or C and O-pyromellityl-gramicidin A or C (in which a pyromellitic acid residue has been esterified to the ethanolamine-OH group [Apell, H.-J., E. Bamberg, H. Alpes, and P. Läuger.
Circumcised
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Circumcise
Example Sentences:
(1) Lack of circumcision, past history of GUD and urethritis were significantly associated with HIV seroconversion.
(2) One hundred male infants were studied at the Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, to determine the incidence and complications of routine circumcision.
(3) The best treatment would appear to be prevention of the complication by adequate instruction to personnel doing routine circumcisions.
(4) Circumcision is the only surgical procedure, excluding cord-clamping and cutting, which is routinely performed on normal, healthy newborn infants, usually during the first two or three days of life.
(5) In a controlled series of 167 circumcised patients, receiving optimal ante-natal and intra-partum care in hospital, we observed only short-term complications at delivery, with no long-term effects on the mother or the baby.
(6) Up to 23,000 girls under the age of 15 are thought to be at risk of FGM, which is also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting.
(7) "What it means to be a 'proper' man and the fact that it has been reduced to the practice of circumcision is detrimental not only to the young men who go through the process but to society as a whole."
(8) Parents who take their daughters abroad to be circumcised could be sentenced to 14 years in prison, if proposed legislation becomes law.
(9) Therapeutical circumcision (posthectomy) in nine patients presenting with diffuse penile warts.
(10) We circumcise all our children, they say it’s good for our girls,” said Naga Shawky, a 40-year-old housewife, as she walked along streets near Sohair’s home.
(11) The results indicate a common core of physical but diverse cultural reasons for circumcision and justify ready access to circumcision from the military surgeon.
(12) Of 140 boys coming to day-case elective circumcision between the ages of 3 months and 14 years (mean 4.3 years), the commonest cause was a congenital phimosis (42.8%).
(13) A high proportion (56.4%) claimed to have been circumcised by examination revealed that 24.5% had no clinical evidence of circumcision.
(14) It feels like rape every time.” Taina Bien Aime, director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and a long-time anti-FGM campaigner, says comparisons between male and female circumcision are unhelpful.
(15) Despite the vogue for conservatism, circumcision still has an important part to play in the management of troublesome foreskins in children.
(16) Circumcision practices for 409 African ethnic groups were corresponded with national estimates of HIV infection levels.
(17) A trial of videotaped "informed consent" counseling was undertaken to determine whether such counseling could affect the parental choice about circumcision.
(18) The procedure is simple, safe and much less traumatizing than the conventional circumcision.
(19) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
(20) The circumcised men had significantly fewer symptoms (P = 0-0058).