What's the difference between bier and brier?

Bier


Definition:

  • (n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
  • (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dan Biers, the first secretary at the US embassy, said it was disappointed by the verdict.
  • (2) A modern version of Bier's original method is described, conveniently called an intercuff block (ICB), which reintroduces the possibility of effective flushing, offers better operating conditions and engenders new ideas for further study.
  • (3) The addition of 2 mg of Atracurium to the Bier's Block improved the ease of reduction (P less than 0.025) and the quality of analgesia (P less than 0.05) (Mann-Whitney U test).
  • (4) Perhaps this latter group should be done under Bier block intravenous anesthesia, if they can be identified beforehand.
  • (5) Barley, bier and draff therefore contain a beta-glucan-like factor which stimulates lactogenic hormone secretion.
  • (6) These microorganisms were identified following the Otto Bier and Bailey & Scott's techniques (3, 1).
  • (7) The mini-dose Bier block, a technique of intravenous (IV) regional anesthesia that uses low-dose lidocaine and provides safe and effective anesthesia for outpatient closed reductions of upper extremity fractures and dislocations, is presented.
  • (8) We describe the purification of a single-strand nuclease from Aspergillus oryzae using the first commercial prototype of an instrument (RF3TM) designed by Milan Bier et al.
  • (9) These studies suggest that the glycocalyx develops late in cercarial development (late in Stage 6 or in Stage 7 of Cheng and Bier), is made by the cercariae themselves, and is not a product of either the sporocyst wall cells or snail hepatopancreas.
  • (10) The retrograde intravenous pressure infusion into an arterially occluded segment of an extremity (Bier's technique) is the most effective method to achieve maximal tissue concentrations of a drug.
  • (11) The effect of 30-min tourniquet ischaemia (Bier's block) on the antidromic homolateral left median nerve sensory potential (SP) and on the bilateral sympathetic skin response (SSR) was studied in 6 healthy volunteers.
  • (12) Bier's method of regional anaesthesia has been proposed to deposit various drugs intravenously distal to an arterial block in legs with severe arterial insufficiency.
  • (13) Milan Bier's contributions to preparative electrophoresis and, in particular, his work in "recycling", have had an enormous impact on the development of scaling strategies for continuous flow electrophoresis.
  • (14) A double-blind comparison of bupivacaine and lignocaine for intravenous regional analgesia (Bier's block) was carried out in seventy-two patients presenting for upper limb surgery.
  • (15) The authors conclude that the addition of Atracurium to a Bier's Block is useful in selected patients with a wrist fracture.
  • (16) Ocado sold a 12-pack of Beck’s Bier as “was £12.19 now £9” for almost a month but it had only sold at the higher price of £12.19 for three days, 18 days before the offer started.
  • (17) Ten additional experiments were carried out using a Bier blockade tourniquet (5 cm wide).
  • (18) No serious complications have been documented in the literature relating to prilocaine in IVRA and we have conducted a survey within the U.K. which indicates that about 45,000 Bier's blocks have been carried out with prilocaine without convulsion, arrhythmia or fatality.
  • (19) An intravenous regional sympathetic block was produced in the upper limb using a Bier's technique and guanethidine.
  • (20) The cost of Bier block anesthesia administered in the emergency room (ER) was significantly less than that of a general anesthetic in the operating room.

Brier


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Briar

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
  • (2) Several investigators have used the Brier index to measure the predictive accuracy of a set of medical judgments; the Brier scores of different raters who have evaluated the same patients provides a measure of relative accuracy.
  • (3) • Richard David Briers, actor, born 14 January 1934; died 17 February 2013
  • (4) The integrated method significantly improved the quality of the physicians' judgments as measured by calibration curves and Brier scores, and increased the level of agreement between the physicians' judgments and those made by the clinical prediction rule.
  • (5) Briers, always the most modest and self-deprecating of actors, and the sweetest of men, relished the review, happy to claim a place in the light comedians' gallery of his knighted idols Charles Hawtrey, Gerald du Maurier and Noël Coward.
  • (6) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (7) I have a cherished recollection of meeting Briers when he played the second-string theatre critic, Moon, in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound in 1968 .
  • (8) Peter Egan, who starred opposite Richard Briers (and Downton's Penelope Wilton) in BBC1 sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, will also return in the new series, as Lord Flintshire.
  • (9) Stephen Fry, who worked with Briers in the 1992 film Peter's Friends, said on Twitter: "Oh no, I've just heard the news that Richard Briers has died.
  • (10) A simple average of the residents' and fellows' judgments was slightly but significantly more reliable by calibration curve and by Brier score, 0.117, and as discriminating (ROC area = 0.85, SE = 0.03) as the attending physicians' judgments.
  • (11) Ricky Gervais tweeted: "RIP the wonderful Richard Briers."
  • (12) Richard Briers on location for the BBC's Monarch of the Glen.
  • (13) • Richard Briers is honorary vice-president of the Parkinson's Disease Society and will be reading at the charity's annual concert at Central Hall, Westminster, on December 10.
  • (14) Kenith Trodd, the veteran television drama producer, said Briers' successes in popular sitcoms belied his talents as a serious actor.
  • (15) The Expert System's discriminatory ability in probabilistic prediction, assessed by a method based on continuous functions of the diagnostic probabilities (Brier score) was good.
  • (16) In classic Briers fashion, he entered beaming with a cup of cocoa at entirely the wrong moment.
  • (17) However, such comparisons may be difficult to interpret because of the lack of a statistical test for differentiating between two Brier scores.
  • (18) When he played Hamlet as a young man, Richard Briers , who has died aged 79 after suffering from a lung condition, said he was the first Prince of Denmark to give the audience half an hour in the pub afterwards.
  • (19) While doing his national service with the RAF, Briers attended evening classes in drama.
  • (20) We suggest that the proposed method can provide a useful tool for investigators using the Brier index to compare how well clinicians express uncertainty using probability judgments.