(n.) The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
(n.) The thing applied.
(n.) The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
(n.) The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.
(n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.
(n.) The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
(n.) The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
(n.) The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.
(n.) A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
(3) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(4) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(5) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(6) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(7) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(8) Effects of OT injection and OT application were independent.
(9) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(10) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(11) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
(12) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(13) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(14) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(15) High-dose oral and intrathecal applications of viatamin B12 are also possible in the individual case.
(16) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(17) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(18) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(19) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(20) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
Mathematical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(2) On the basis of mathematical models of the obtained dose-time-effect relationship, the risk of cancer occurrence due to small carcinogen doses is predicted.
(3) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(4) The kinetic properties of the cell-free extracts fit mathematical models developed for in vitro systems reconstituted from purified enzymes.
(5) All of the multivariate data were treated with mathematic method of cluster analysis.
(6) Problems of calculations and predictions on more than two particles moving are known in mathematics and physics since a long time already.
(7) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
(8) Such measured courses may be mathematically modelled by the so-called BATEMAN function type, an expression consisting of 2 e-function terms.
(9) This review begins with a mathematical and qualitative description of the inverse problem in terms of epicardial potentials.
(10) For both cases, mathematical expressions as proposed and used by Sager are applied.
(11) Since the four determining coefficients may change over evolutionary time-scales, the mathematical results together with a natural selection argument proves that virulence gamma 2 attenuates.
(12) The selection of optimal parameters, development of valid measurement procedures, and use of mathematical modeling and descriptive statistics are necessary for quantitative studies by ultrasound of fetal organ growth.
(13) The mathematical model clearly predicts this decrease in concentration.
(14) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
(15) A mathematical model that abstracts the major features of the vegetative life cycle of Neurosopra crassa has been developed, and the action of selection in this model and various extensions of it is such as to maintain polymorphisms of vegetative incompatibility factors.
(16) Mathematical models describing the process of the patients treatment and permitting to pronosticate the blood and urine sugar level during the treatment were developed.
(17) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(18) A mathematical treatment and an original microcalorimetric method are developed to verify an eventual competitive binding between any two substances for the same macromolecule.
(19) By means of the method of factor-geometric analysis using a computer DVK-3, mathematic calculations of the effectiveness of the operation were made.
(20) A mathematical model of cochlear processing is developed to account for the nonlinear dependence of frequency selectivity on intensity in inner hair cell and auditory nerve fiber responses.