What's the difference between attend and nonattendance?
Attend
Definition:
(v. t.) To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.
(v. t.) To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.
(v. t.) To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve.
(v. t.) To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects.
(v. t.) To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.
(v. t.) To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
(v. i.) To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; -- usually followed by to.
(v. i.) To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; -- often followed by on or upon.
(v. i.) (with to) To take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business.
(v. i.) To wait; to stay; to delay.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(4) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(5) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(7) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
(9) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
(10) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(11) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(12) The level of infection by Chlamydia trachomatis in patients attending different units of urogenital diseases was evaluated.
(13) Information from nurses differs from that provided by attending physicians.
(14) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(15) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
(16) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(17) Finally, the contribution of regular dental attendance to periodontal health is discussed.
(18) It showed that the proportion of patients attending with recurrent herpes had increased from 18% in 1972 to 31% in 1982.
(19) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
(20) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
Nonattendance
Definition:
(n.) A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty pregnant adolescents attended the program and 50 nonattenders served as controls.
(2) The cancers detected by screening were predominantly 'early stage', with 16% noninvasive (PTIS) and 42% invasive stage I (pT1 node negative), whereas cancers were frequently 'late stage' (more than pT2) and inoperable in nonattenders (44%) and controls (36%).
(3) When the cost of reserving an appointment was considered, the most cost-effective personal recruitment strategy was an invitation letter without a specified appointment time, followed by a second letter to nonattenders.
(4) Because women who attend sexually transmitted diseases clinics have a greater risk of developing cervical cancer than do nonattenders, the authors assessed the cost-yield of routine Papanicolaou screening at the Denver metro Health Clinic.
(5) Although this had little effect on patients' relative utilization status, it had a substantial effect on the identification of nonattenders.
(6) A questionnaire to the women who failed to attend these appointments identified pregnancy and seeking management elsewhere as the most commonly stated reasons for the nonattendance.
(7) In comparison, the most effective personal recruitment strategy was a letter with a specified appointment time followed by a second letter to nonattenders, which recruited 44.1% of women at an average cost of $19.99 and a marginal cost of $59.71 per additional attendee.
(8) The 128 nonattenders variously cited transport difficulties (particularly among women), unclear appointment details, and forgetfulness as main reasons for defaulting.
(9) A previous study showed that clinic attenders differ from nonattenders in emotions, personality, self-concept, neuroticism, psychosomatics, and health attitudes.
(10) Universities, hospitals and professional associations planning continuing education must determine if the needs of nonattending physicians are being met through other means or if new strategies are required to ensure that these physicians have opportunities for upgrading their knowledge.
(11) Macrosomia and hypoglycaemia were significant neonatal complications in infants of nonattending mothers.
(12) The model, which is based on the idea of attenuation of the components in the nonattended auditory image (in the case of segregated images), predicts lower sensitivity to information at the target component for the fused versus segregated target, and equal sensitivities for completely segregated targets and targets presented in isolation.
(13) However, logistic regression analyses indicated that, with the exception of number of community organizations known, these differences were attributable to demographic differences between attenders and nonattenders.
(14) When these patients were compared with a group of 31 nonattenders of the preconceptional clinic, in the former normoglycemia and normal hemoglobin A1 values were achieved before conception, whereas in the latter good control was reached by the second trimester.
(15) 50 children defined as persistent outpatient nonattenders were compared with 50 children who regularly attended the same clinics.
(16) Prepared couples were matched with nonattenders on six variables: race, patient status (clinic or private), parity, marital status, age, and socioeconomic status.
(17) Nonattending families tended to have lower incomes and less parental education and included more single parent families and nonwhite families.
(18) When GPs were asked how often in the last month they had actually given advice to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, program attenders reported offering it more frequently than nonattenders.
(19) In February 1989 a daily computerized record system was set up to identify risk groups and nonattenders.
(20) A study of nonattendance at a Dysplasia Clinic found that 20% of women who had an appointment in 1988 failed to attend the clinic during the next 18 months.