(a.) Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.
(a.) Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
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.
Inattentive
Definition:
(a.) Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Response to a single, 5-mg dose of methylphenidate was compared in aggressive and nonaggressive attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children using objective measures of inattention, impulsivity, and activity level.
(2) ADHD refers to a combination of symptoms in the general areas of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
(3) Simple screening tests for visual and tactile inattention were used to investigate the influence of perceptual deficits on predictions for the outcome of acute stroke.
(4) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
(5) One hundred children referred for evaluation of attention and learning problems were administered a battery of tests including two vigilance tasks, other laboratory measures of inattention and impulsivity, and parent and teacher ratings.
(6) to extend a preliminary study of the internal structure of six measures comprising the 'conventional' subtests of the Behavioural Inattention Test (BIT) in order to develop a short screening test for visual neglect.
(7) Epileptic boys were significantly more inattentive and overactive than nonepileptic boys according to their teachers and parents, and they performed significantly less well on tests of sustained attention and perceptual accuracy.
(8) Children and adolescents who present with inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity constitute a large portion of the behavior problems seen in pediatric patients.
(9) These data must be considered preliminary because teacher ratings were the only source of diagnosis and a single measure of inattention was used.
(10) The authors present a case of transient left hemispatial inattention following traumatic brain injury in a three-year-old child.
(11) Significant right lateralized inattention was present on the spatial stimuli.
(12) Inattention to pricing policies can lead to increased total costs, windfall profits for some providers, and the loss of comprehensive coverage for high-risk individuals.
(13) Methylphenidate significantly reduced teachers' and parents' ratings of hyperactivity, inattention, and oppositionality.
(14) ADHD is a behavioral disorder of unknown etiology characterized by inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity.
(15) The four-year prognosis of patients with visuospatial inattention in a stroke register (altogether 255 patients) was studied.
(16) Work in the geographic and environmental traditions, in contrast, samples a broader range of map forms and functions, but it suffers from inattention to procedural details that makes the conclusions less compelling than they might otherwise be.
(17) Patients were assigned to the neglect group (N+) or the non-neglect group (N-) on the basis of their aggregate scores on the recently standardised Behavioural Inattention Test (BIT).
(18) The results indicate that inattention and somnolence negatively influence memory performance and should be taken into account when evaluating the Amytal memory test results.
(19) On a standard questionnaire derived from DSM-III criteria for attention deficit disorder, the math group showed higher scores for inattention, but not for hyperactivity, impulsivity, or poor peer relations.
(20) Attention deficit disorder is a common neurobehavioral problem in children that manifests as hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention.