(n.) The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.
Example Sentences:
(1) 78% of the patients completed their treatment in agreement with the original ascription to therapy, with good results for all three therapies.
(2) The sources of observation were objective test performances, trait ascription using a standard list of adjectives, and videotaped enactments of mood and esthetic performances.
(3) It is urged that interlaboratory validation of techniques and landmarks should precede the ascription of apparent differences in body build to constitutional factors.
(4) Mammary developmental growth was assessed on inguinal mammary glands by ascription of development scores, determination of epithelial area (mm2), and determination of total DNA levels.
(5) The ascription was made on the basis of a separate series of Raman examinations on six crystals involving adenosine or thymidine, and fifteen other nucleotide crystals, whose structures are all known by previous crystallographic works.
(6) In this paper, the problem of correct ascriptions of consciousness to patients in neurological intensive care medicine is explored as a special case of the general philosophical 'other minds problem'.
(7) Appropriate clinical management of affected individuals can only be instituted if enzyme activity is measured using a method capable of clear interpretation and phenotypic ascription of cholinesterase, ascertained by use of selected enzyme inhibitors, is reliable.
(8) Three hundred sixty six academicians with professional appointments in physics, psychology, sociology, nursing, and management were surveyed by a mailed questionnaire, the Tenure Decision Factor Inventory (TDFI) composed of Achievement (ACH) Ascriptive (ASCRIPT), Internal Political (IP), and External Political (EP) criteria related to tenure receipt.
(9) The implications of our data for the kinds of behavioral evidence required for ascription of such stereotypy to a central pattern generator are discussed.
(10) The impact of intervening variables such as selection factors as well as the influence of gender on the ascription of a diagnosis of schizophrenia for the first time were assessed.
(11) It is further argued that a folk version of such a theory already underlies our factual ascriptions of consciousness in clinical contexts.
(12) It is also suggested that the underlying as well as the overt bases for these stereotypical ascriptions may have broader applicability: differential rather than unilateral assessments may indeed be the norm rather than a peculiarly Antillean perception.
(13) Performance and causal ascriptions to the four factors effort, ability, luck, and task difficulty as a function of success for failure feedback were investigated.
(14) Care should be taken in the ascription of symptoms to minor tears so discovered.
(15) I defend ascription of a right of self-determination to these incompetents against both conceptual and normative attacks.
(16) These data are fully consistent with the original ascription that the purple species observed upon reduction of the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases with substrate represents a charge transfer complex between reduced flavin as the donor and trans-2-octenoyl-CoA as the acceptor.
(17) He suggests that the definition and ascription of illness are of such social importance that decisions concerning them should be made cooperatively by doctors and society.
(18) I argue that a court need make no conceptual error when it ascribes a right of self-determination to a being who never had capacity for rational choice, and I argue that proper judicial deference to reflective conventional morality supports ascription of a right of self-determination to severe incompetents.
(19) A brief review of tests of the attributional model of depression suggests that there is only weak or inconsistent support for the predicted causal ascriptions by depressed persons for negative events.
(20) Since the pattern of VNTR electrophoretic bands is inherited from parents in a proportion of 50% from each one, this system is extremely useful for paternity ascription or exclusion.
Characteristic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
(n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
(n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(3) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(4) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(6) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
(7) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(8) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
(9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(10) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(11) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(12) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(13) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(14) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(15) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(16) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(17) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(18) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(20) 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.