(n.) The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
(n.) That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(2) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(3) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(4) Radioactivity attained in different tissues at different times after a single intraperitoneal injection of 3H-gentamicin into male rats was determined using scintillation counting.
(5) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(6) The amount of 15N incorporated into the proteins in 1 litre plasma attained up to 3% of the given dose.
(7) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(8) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(9) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(10) One patient attained a complete response, two a partial response, and two showed progressive disease.
(11) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
(12) In contrast, T lymphocyte cytolytic activity developed more slowly in regressing sarcomas and attained peak levels coincident with the beginning of tumor regression.
(13) Experimental photogenic epilepsy attained by creating GPIE in the EGB with the aid of TT, is proposed as a model for studying the mechanism of epileptogenesis and testing the efficacy of anticonvulsive drugs.
(14) The surgical approach used for each type of complication is discussed, underlining the end-result to be attained in relation to the patient's future.
(15) In particular, poorly differentiated carcinomas at this site should be treated as germ cell tumors, and so long-term survival will be attainable.
(16) ODC attained maximum activity in controls on day 11, increasing by more than an order of magnitude above the activity found on day 9.
(17) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(18) Nearly 30% of students scored A or A*, whereas across the UK only 26% attained these grades.
(19) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
(20) An arrest of a depressive syndrome in manic-depressive psychosis in old age can be attained by an introduction of 150-200 mg of azafen daily.
Scholarship
Definition:
(n.) The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.
(n.) Literary education.
(n.) Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
(2) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
(3) Ahmed has been offered a scholarship to take him through high school and university by the Qatar Foundation, a public-private education partnership in the Middle Eastern state.
(4) I received scholarships the past two years in Jordan.
(5) Each year, two candidates are given scholarships worth £9,000 each over the course of a three-year degree, plus work experience.
(6) Leanne Whitehouse did not respond to questions about whether Frances Abbott was offered the scholarship in accordance with the school’s policy, or how many scholarships were awarded each year.
(7) In 1960, 300 Kenyans were awarded Kennedy scholarships to study at US colleges and universities.
(8) Les Taylor, the chairman of the Whitehouse Institute of Design board of governors, personally recommended the prime minister’s daughter for a $60,000 design degree scholarship, and has also made donations of more than $20,000 to the state and federal Liberal party.
(9) Guardian Australia has confirmed that she received a scholarship during her time at the institute.
(10) I decided to take a chance and apply, and soon after I became the first recipient of the new scholarship.
(11) Publication opportunities are often limited, and individual scholarship is difficult to express and evaluate within the context of a cooperative trial.
(12) Crawford is on a 50% scholarship, which means his fees are reduced to about £11,000 over two years.
(13) When I finished my degree, in biology, I was lucky to get a scholarship for four years.
(14) These include scholarships to the London School of Economics and City University and annual donations to the Red Cross and World Wildlife Fund.
(15) Alicia White, 25, defied the odds of a poor background by attending college on a partial scholarship and going to graduate school.
(16) Utilizing feminist scholarship in psychoanalysis, history, and sociology, the paper analyzes the structural contradictions in family life that family therapists have essentially ignored and then outlines their clinical implications.
(17) Thirty-six percent were serving obligations to the NHSC, nearly all through the NHSC's Scholarship Program.
(18) For now, we can't tell, but the Moritz-Heyman scholarships will help us find out by creating a group of graduates who will start on the career ladder with a near-clean slate.
(19) Born in Anglesey, Roberts never made it as a professional footballer in Britain – he played for Bangor City in the Northern League – but the 51-year-old has a wealth of coaching experience going back to the late 1980s, when he started working alongside the former Liverpool winger Steve Heighway in the United States after taking up a soccer scholarship at Furman University in South Carolina.
(20) In 2003 the Rhodes Trust joined in the creation of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation which provides scholarships for students studying at African universities .