(n.) The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(2) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
(3) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
(5) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(6) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(7) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(8) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(9) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(10) Multiple operations were done in 7 patients prior to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
(11) The compounds 1-3 in reaction with nicotine aldehyde or p-chlorobenzaldehyde were transformed into appropriate anilides of 2,3-epoxypropionic acid 4-9.
(12) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
(13) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
(14) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(15) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(16) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.
(17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(18) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
(19) A careful history, a thorough physical examination, and an appropriate selection of tests will identify these patients.
(20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.
Aptitude
Definition:
(n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.
(n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.
(n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article reviews the general concepts of aptitude and ATI and summarizes lesions learned in ATI research on educational treatments that should help ATI research on psychotherapeutic treatments.
(2) Psychometric tests of verbal and spatial ability were included to assess convergent and discriminant validity of hypothesized relationships between aptitude test performance and basic cognitive processes.
(3) The results of repair of posterior urethral strictures, even the complex ones, by anastomotic procedures can be excellent but real competence depends upon a particular aptitude of the surgeon for the minutiae of reconstructive techniques, appropriate training in a specializing department, a real ongoing numerical experience and special instrumentation with facilities for detailed urodynamic evaluation of this sphincter active area of the urethra.
(4) In a separate session verbal, spatial and abstract reasoning subtests of the Differential Aptitude Test were administered.
(5) VO2 max varied with age, athletic participation and aptitude score.
(6) An aptitude test has been designed to assess the psychomotor ability of surgeons under the special conditions and difficulties of endoscopic surgery.
(7) We also know little about the relative aptitude for different musical components, especially melody and harmony.
(8) This haemoglobin abnormality therefore underlines the question of aptitude of navigation personnel in national or international air-lines.
(9) There are relationships between cannabis use and geographic area of enlistment, religious preference, aptitude scores, race, educational level, and age at enlistment.
(10) A deepening of analysis in extrapolation scientific aptitude and preventive exposition to valid experiences since 1st.
(11) Right and left cerebral hemisphere and limbic scores derived from the Herrmann Brain Dominance Profile, Scholastic Aptitude Test Verbal and Mathematics scores, and High School Grade Point Average were correlated with grades in college developmental courses in reading, English, and mathematics for 146 students.
(12) The authors examine prophylactic aspects of laser-induced injury in personnel dealing with these radiations, especially as far as ocular pathology and criteria of aptitude to work with these radiations from the point of view of function of the visual apparatus are concerned.
(13) After ten years of experience with therapeutic vacations in a department for chronic psychotic patients the aptitude of these vacations as part of a long term ward-treatment programme is discussed.
(14) Results indicated no substantial differences in correlations for the two types of tests, and hence little or no support for the notion of an aptitude-achievement distinction based on differential heritabilities.
(15) The task of appraising aptitudes and inclinations accompanies a rehabilitee and the rehabilitation workers involved for the entire duration of an occupationally-focussed rehabilitation measure.
(16) Recommendations on the knowledge and aptitudes to be acquired during the basic training of dental practitioners have been accepted by the EC member states.
(17) As chairman of the Bar Council he once complained that some of his peers got into the profession through accent rather than aptitude, saying: "People from a privileged background are sometimes recruited even though they are not up to the job intellectually."
(18) Research that combines correlational and experimental approaches in a search for aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI) is both inescapable and of potential benefit to the field.
(19) Subsequently, the prophylactic as well as therapeutic potency of selected immunomodulating drugs should be evaluated in various models of aptitude, such as chronic infection, autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammatory reactions.
(20) Thus, surgeons with a general urologic training who do not have both a special additional and ongoing experience of reconstructive procedures and a particular aptitude for the problems involved must be advised that "having a go" is not in the best interests of their patients.