(1) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(2) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(3) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(4) The time to make the decision and the total time are automatically recorded.
(5) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(7) On the basis of these data, the computer, upon the basis of a program specially developed for this purpose, automatically calculates the corresponding amount of negative-points, which parallels the severity of the joint changes, i.e.
(8) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(9) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
(10) They were fitted with a gastric cannula through which 'milk' was infused automatically.
(11) Ventricular defibrillation was acheived in active conscious dogs with a chronically implanted automatic system composed of a defibrillator and an alternating current fibrillator.
(12) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(13) This study was designed to determine the effects of hypoxia for shorter periods (1, 2, 3 and 6 weeks) on the neonatal heart as well as the chronotropic effects of [H+] on sino-atrial automaticity.
(14) From this, and previous studies indicating a dependency of contraction frequency on the inward verapamil-sensitive Na influx, it is suggested that the drugs modify the automaticity of this preparation by a primary influence on membrane Na exchange.
(15) Automatic analysis of oculopneumoplethysmography recordings might minimize the risks of misinterpretation and might improve the clinical significance of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test.
(16) Global left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was obtained by radionuclide angiography and analyzed with an automatic detection program.
(17) 21 amino acids were determined by a liquid chromatograph, consisting of an automatic controller of the gradient, nonautomatic injector, fluorimetric detector and recording device.
(18) The algorithms involved are simple and a microprocessor-based automatic PCG analysis system using the proposed technique is being contemplated.
(19) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
(20) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
Cursory
Definition:
(a.) Running about; not stationary.
(a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of these are accomplished simultaneously with a cursory survey to identify immediately life-threatening injuries and to prevent permanent disability.
(2) It is clear that any investigations they have conducted have been cursory.
(3) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
(4) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
(5) A cursory trawl reveals a long list of employment tribunals and strikes by low-paid workers in these outsourcing companies.
(6) Further, it only takes a cursory look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website to see that they are embroiled in a bitter and ongoing feud with Isis.
(7) The statements to this point only give a cursory review of the beginning (20 years) of the kinetic approach to the classification of lipoproteins and subsystems which are involved in their synthesis and metabolism.
(8) Morphological differences are primarily related to locomotor patterns as reflected in the degree of cursoriality displayed by bovids in different habitats.
(9) In the past, says Hogan, they tended only to give them a cursory glance.
(10) Writer Feargus O’Sullivan thinks of the presence of artists and creative workers as adding a “cursory sheen to a place’s transformation”, describing the process as “ artwashing ”.
(11) But it was as much their mistakes as those of Moyes that led them to Tuesday's cursory announcement .
(12) In this chapter, while we review in a cursory way the older findings with glucocorticoid hormones, we concentrate on the newer developments which suggest that leukocyte- and pituitary-derived ACTH and endorphins perform regulatory functions within and between the immune system and the pituitary-adrenocortical axis.
(13) Yes, the ad included such issues as agriculture and the environment, but only the most cursory mention.
(14) The UK's cursory submission to the commission is in fact based on a February 2012 report titled Creating the Conditions for Integration .
(15) If anyone doubts that people do not care enough about wildlife then a cursory look at the emails, tweets, letters and calls that have flooded into the RSPB in recent days will open their eyes.
(16) The text which has to be easily understandable, mentions: a cursory description of the clinical signs of the different decompression accidents the measures which have to be taken in each case, depending on: the moment of the emergency: after or during decompression, the presence of an insufficient decompression, or a "blow-up".
(17) We didn’t actually fully investigate them, we just made a cursory visit and went back to all of our keyboards looking at everybody’s emails and text messages.
(18) I don’t think that a cursory look at the budget is enough for people to understand what we’re really getting at.
(19) According to one survey, just 4% of women do this, and a cursory glance around the globe hints it is not exactly common practice elsewhere.
(20) This is only a cursory view of the complexities one encounters when attempting to understand women, how and why they behave the way they do, how they respond to the health care system, what some of their influences are, and what we must all do together to help them help themselves and us, to provide them with a longer, more productive, rewarding and healthy life span.