(n.) Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.
(n.) Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, this particular family illustrates the great importance of obtaining a detailed, accurate family history and of assiduous follow-up of the entire family.
(2) For years Rupert Murdoch has poured his anti-BBC poison into the ears of his readers, viewers, and the politicians who pay him such assiduous court.
(3) He gives credit to Gøtzsche for his assiduous work over many years to get to the truth.
(4) He is instead, assiduously effective, notable above all for his peripheral vision and awareness of space, the ability to play not just the pass before a goal but the pass before the pass that makes a goal, qualities that do not so much leap out as emerge, once again, by stealth.
(5) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
(6) But during his own years in the House Balls has worked the back-benches assiduously, diligently touring round constituency dinners on damp Friday nights.
(7) First, the Independent's target readers are sophisticated and assiduous internet users.
(8) The next step is not Read more Since then Labor has been assiduous in appearing in lockstep with the Coalition on asylum seeker policy.
(9) At one level it's very gentle and quite jolly; at another, if continued assiduously, it means they are after you.
(10) If only the future London mayor had prepared a little more assiduously for a house debating competition when he was on Dixon’s team at school – they lost – Dixon may have pulled his punches.
(11) Considering he does not turn 19 until November things are happening rather fast for a Bristol-raised teenager who has already been the subject of assiduous courting from both England and Jamaica.
(12) In the performance of end-to-end jejunoileal shunt, operative mortality can be nearly eliminated and late deaths largely prevented by assiduous care and follow-up.
(13) In recent years, China has worked assiduously behind the scenes to weaken international human rights institutions and publicly rejected international criticism of the political repression of its citizens.
(14) The acrid taste left by the election was heightened by the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks which revealed Amano's assiduous courting of American support .
(15) His lack of ego endeared him to the maths community: he brought out the wonder in their subject, and was also assiduous in crediting all the academics and puzzlists who contributed ideas.
(16) The good postural stability of the shooters apparently results from assiduous training aimed to improve postural stability.
(17) He added: "The air cargo industry has obviously been aware for many years of the potential for terrorists to attempt to use or attack freight-only flights, and has worked assiduously with law enforcement and security agencies to provide a security regime that will prevent this from happening.
(18) One group had undergone early (mean age, 3.0 months) myringotomy with placement of tympanostomy tubes, followed by assiduous monitoring and an aggressive treatment program to maintain ventilation in the middle ear.
(19) He craved a smile as assiduously as he would avoid a left hook, and so natural was he in front of a microphone that he often reduced his inquisitors to silent witnesses, most famously Michael Parkinson, whose interviews with Ali are the stuff of legend.
(20) None had obvious underlying cardiac disease or iatrogenic fluid overload, and in all an assiduous search for underlying cardiovascular disease was launched.
Concentration
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
(n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
(n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) Synthesis of choline esterase on the medium with acetylcholine at a concentration of 1% was increased more than twofold upon addition of glucose at a concentration of 0.1%.
(3) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(4) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(5) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(6) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(7) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(8) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
(9) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(10) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(11) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
(12) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(13) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
(14) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(15) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
(16) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(17) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(18) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(19) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(20) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.