(n.) One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(2) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
(3) Reflux control, evaluated by clinical appraisal and roentgenograms in all patients and by 24-hour esophageal pH monitoring in some, has been complete in all patients throughout the study.
(4) This study examines whether the aged and the middle aged differ in their self-appraisal of health.
(5) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
(6) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
(7) Culture of myeloma bone marrow by this serum-free method will allow appraisal of the role of various recombinant growth factors.
(8) A total of 54 family caregivers of elderly dementia patients completed interviews and questionnaires assessing the severity of patient impairment and caregiving stressors; caregiver appraisals, coping responses, and social support and activity; and caregiver outcomes, including depression, life satisfaction, and self-rated health.
(9) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.
(10) Appraisal of the results suggested an induction of microsomal enzymes which appeared to be subsiding after the cessation of direct exposure to PCBs.
(11) This study addresses the use and appraisal of services by parents at the KIDS Family Centre, Camden, London, which offers a variety of family-focused services with differing degrees of parental involvement.
(12) It is concluded after critical appraisal of all these studies that there is insufficient convincing evidence to date of an advantage of perfusion over wide local excision alone.
(13) Massive, active bleeding of the oesophageal varices in cirrhotics requires immediate, comprehensive and continuing appraisal of determining risk parameters (liver function and morphology, hyperdynamic syndrome, renal function, dynamic angiography of the splanchnic circulation).
(14) A questionnaire investigation enrolling more than 300 orthodontic patients and their parents was conducted into the subjective appraisal of treatment means and doctor-patient-interaction.
(15) By means of the inquiry method, informations were obtained regarding the appraisement of temporary working incapacity, performed by 76 doctors, of whom 45 general practitioners and 31 factory doctors.
(16) The transfer of parental immunity to infectious laryngotracheitis was appraised by measuring serum antibody levels in 150 chicks from the day of hatch up to five weeks.
(17) The recent development of H1-receptor antagonists devoid of clinical sedative effects has enabled the administration of doses of H1-antihistamines which achieve a greater degree of H1-receptor blockade within the airways, thus permitting a better appraisal of the role of histamine in this condition.
(18) A theoretical appraisal of the alternative pathway mechanism for a two-substrate enzyme shows that this mechanism is capable of giving rise to apparent substrate inhibition or substrate activation (Dalziel, 1958).
(19) Studying the natural history of coronary artery disease could provide a frame of reference for prognosis and appraisal of treatment for patients having this disease.
(20) After presenting the factors on the basis of which an exercise test may be appraised in relation to its purposes, the criteria for interpreting results in healthy and sick subjects are examined, with particular attention being paid to pneumo-patients and those with heart diseases.
Valuer
Definition:
(n.) One who values; an appraiser.
Example Sentences:
(1) After an 18-month freedom-of-information battle waged by local residents, the district valuer’s report of Capco’s viability assessment was made public.
(2) Jovan Ssebaggala, 21, and his elder brother Joel, a government land valuer, arrived early to secure front seats.
(3) It comes as a genuine shock, then, that a council has removed one of his paintings instead of calling in the valuers.
(4) The property market is also suffering a fresh downturn, said the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in a report today, with valuers across the UK blaming the decline on anticipated public sector job losses.
(5) The lending criteria of one unnamed major bank, sent to brokers, says the following are excluded: “Studio flats, freehold flats, flats with unacceptable access arrangements (eg rear external staircases), flats converted from former office blocks or flats within blocks where our valuer reports inadequate maintenance of communal areas, ex-local authority or ex-public sector flats that are greater than four storeys high or that have open decking access.” Anecdotally, there is evidence that some lenders are also becoming nervous about expensive one-bedroom flats in London, limiting the maximum mortgage to £500,000.
(6) Steve Hatch, director and valuer at Castles, another north London agent, said the Bank's warning "got the attention it was meant to get and made people think for a moment.
(7) Because you’re basically saying: ‘If everyone else bidding for a similar site gets away with no affordable housing, then that’s the value I’ll use.’ It completely circumvents planning policy.” Such was the case, he says, at Mount Pleasant in north London, where Royal Mail’s valuers contended the £4bn scheme for 700 homes could not possibly meet both Islington and Camden councils’ targets of 50% affordable housing because of the high value of the site to begin.
(8) At the auction house, senior valuer Chris Albury said it was an exceptional collection.
(9) It will provide for compensation to be determined by an independent valuer," said Darling.
(10) Local authority flats outside London are generally not in favour and will be at the discretion of the valuer.
(11) Some surveyors and valuers told the RICS survey they had been staggered by the ferocity of the market downturn since the coalition government's emergency budget in June.
(12) You could also choose to pay back the equity loan early, although the minimum you can repay is the equivalent of 10% of the value of your home – as determined by an independent valuer – at the time you want to make a repayment.
(13) Southwark council commissioned an independent appraisal of this viability assessment from the government’s district valuer service (which was also revealed as part of the disclosure).
(14) Typically property valuation for homes in the £2m plus region can cost around £1,400, according to leading property valuers.
(15) "We will now look at the various valuers and auction houses to see about the best values for the piece.
(16) Once again, the district valuer queried these figures, suggesting a review mechanism be put in place to allow the amount of affordable housing to increase if sales turned out better than predicted.