(n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.
(n.) In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.
(n.) Same as Apse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two previously reported pediatric severity scoring systems, the Admission Physiologic Stability Index (APSI) and the Organ System Failure (OSF) score were evaluated for 151 patients.
(2) The APSI was higher for children who died than for those who lived (p less than 0.001).
(3) It is anticipated that the APSI will be of value in a variety of treatment and research contexts.
(4) APSI shows that moderately severe postAMI patients can benefit from a beta-blocking treatment and a beta-blocker with mild intrinsic sympathomimetic activity can be effective.
(5) This difference reflected the sharp distinction between the APSI for children who left intensive care within 24 h and those remaining in ICU longer than 24 h (p less than 0.001).
(6) This article presents the multicenter development of the Adolescent Psychosocial Seizure Inventory (APSI), an empirically based self-report test patterned after the Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory, which is used to evaluate psychosocial problems in adults.
(8) LZEJ and APSI cells could readily be distinguished from each other after co-injection by using specific and sequential staining protocols of whole organs or sections; staining of host organ cells was minimized.
(9) After pilot work, 120 adolescents with epilepsy from five centers in North America took the APSI and were interviewed by professionals with respect to adequacy of adjustment in eight psychosocial areas.
(10) APsys (19%), and delta AP (43%) were significantly increased from predive values, with an additional increase detected for all these variables after 60 min at 30 bar.
(11) For children remaining in ICU longer than 24 h, there was a large overlap of APSI scores, and the APSI did not discriminate between children in the overlap region who lived and those who died (p = 0.054).
(12) There was underscoring of neurological patients; the APSI did not differentiate neurological patients whole lived and those who died (p greater than 0.10).
(13) Co-injection of the two tumor cell classes resulted in similar numbers of homogeneous microfoci in lungs of LZEJ or APSI cells within minutes after injection that persisted for several hours before clearance of most of them.
(14) Although the objective was not achieved, APSI patients were at a higher risk than the average of the 9 previous trials with beta blockers (12% instead of 7%).
(15) APSI was planned because patients with a death rate greater than 20% have not been enrolled in significant numbers in previous trials and in such high-risk patients, it remained to be proven that beta blockers have a beneficial effect.
(16) The observed chemical shifts suggest the existence of an atypical syn conformation for pseudouridine in the Apsi base pair in regulatory tRNAs in solution.
Arsis
Definition:
(n.) That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a greater stress of voice.
(n.) That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or the rhythmic accent.
(n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Arsi and Bale regions of Ethiopia an area was found in which vitamin A deficiency is hyperendemic and linked to monocrop grain farming.
(2) Using data from the Ministry of Health's 1986 Population, Health, and Nutrition baseline survey, fertility levels and trends in the Arsi and Shoa regions of Ethiopia are studied.
(3) On the basis of the incidence of infecundity, four regional groups were formed--western (Welega, Ilubabor, Kefa, and Sidamo), Shewa, Welo, and eastern (Harerge, Bale, and Arsi), representing very high, high, moderate, and low incidences, respectively.
(4) Some 200km from Addis, in the West Arsi zone of Ethiopia's Oromia region, the Buta health post stands in a small valley.
(5) It is concluded that the low frequency of normal cycles is to a large extent due to heats which remained undetected by visual observation in Arsi cows under artificial insemination programmes.
(6) Levels and trends of fertility in the Arsi and Shoa regions of Central Ethiopia are examined, using data from the 1986 Population, Health and Nutrition baseline survey of the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia.
(7) Data collected over a 10-yr period on 1,778 service intervals in 1,111 Arsi (Bos indicus), cows at the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture ranch were analyzed.
(8) The presence of anti-human immunodeficiency virus 1 antibodies was tested in 5,565 serum samples from Ethiopia of which 5,265 were collected from military recruits in the framework of a hepatitis B (HBV) seroepidemiological study performed on a national scale in 1985-1986; the remaining were 300 sera from a population of outpatients belonging to the Arsi region.
(9) The Arsi region in Ethiopia has a population of 2 million who are served by 2 hospitals, 7 health centers (HCs), and 82 health stations (HSs).
(10) Since 1989 an evaluation study of the impact of a Primary Health Care (PHC) program is being carried out in Arsi region, Ethiopia.
(11) In a sample of inhabitants of the Arsi region of Ethiopia prevalence of hepatitis B is around 80% in the age group 20-24.
(12) In Arsi and Bale regions of Ethiopia we found an area in which vitamin A deficiency is hyperendemic and linked to monocrop grain farming.