(n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.
(n.) A cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
(2) At 35 wk of age, the females were reassigned to the various light sources in order to achieve all possible combinations of adolescent and breeder light-source treatments.
(3) Results indicate that feeding schedule (ED vs. EOD) as well as nutrient intake influence body weight gains of broiler breeder males.
(4) Twenty-two parent (multiplier) breeder flocks became infected.
(5) The breeder diet failed to increase uterine weights above control values for either treatment interval.
(6) It is concluded that SD feed restriction causes a persistent elevation of plasma corticosterone in broiler breeders.
(7) Administration of prostaglandin E1 and antiplatelet drugs (acetylsalicylic acid, sulfinpyrazone, and dipyridamole) reduced the number of circulating platelet aggregates in the breeder rats.
(8) Similar to other seasonal breeders, it appears that stallions may possess an endogenous circannual rhythm in reproductive function that is subject to manipulation by altering the light:dark ratio, i.e., photoperiod.
(9) Breeder vaccination against tenosynovitis resulted in immunity of the progeny against oral infection at 1 day old, whereas progeny from unvaccinated breeders were susceptible to such a challenge.
(10) Corn-soybean breeder diets with 0, 2, 4, and 6% added poultry fat were fed from 24 to 64 wk of age.
(11) To compare the sensitivity of two methods for the detection of serum antibodies to pigeon faecal antigens in patients with pigeon breeder's disease.
(12) The nationwide epidemic ended in middle April 1974 following removal of incriminated hamsters from pet shops throughout the country and voluntary cessation of distribution of hamsters from the incriminated breeder.
(13) Acquired HEV antibody appeared at 8 to 10 weeks, and 100% of the meat and breeder turkey flocks were positive after 11 weeks of age.
(14) Eggs collected from F1 generation breeders that received 1 ppm were not affected harmfully as measured by embryonation, embryo survival, and hatchability rates.
(15) Our results reveal the highest rate of toxoplasmosis infection (87%) among the staff of the slaughter-houses, whereas the bovine stock-breeders are the most exposed population to hydatid disease with a 9% prevalence.
(16) Egg and one-day-old chick weights were decreased by limiting the food intake of the breeders but the negative effect disappeared at slaughter (7 weeks).
(17) Pigeon breeder's lung differs from the condition known as bird breeder's lung in that it turns much less often into a chronic condition (pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema).
(18) The superior specificity of the LOS antigen compared to the WC preparation in the ELISA was demonstrated by testing serum samples from retired breeder mice against WC and LOS antigens from P. ureae, P. multocida, and P. hemolytica.
(19) Pullets were full-fed for the first 8 wk of life, then placed on a skip-a-day program with breeder-recommended feed allocations.
(20) Threshold currents for the induction of aggression were determined on several days before the females were paired with experienced breeder males.
Quadratic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
(a.) Tetragonal.
(a.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two recent innovations in time-dose models are reviewed: the linear-quadratic (L-Q) and the variable-exponent Time-Dose Factor (TDF) models.
(2) A sample of 481 clinical isolates from nine of the most commonly isolated gram-negative groups was identified by the quadratic discriminant function technique.
(3) The reported second-order quadratic curves could be used as reference for prosthetic and orthodontic reconstructions.
(4) Egg production and egg specific gravity were correlated to D3 level in a quadratic fashion.
(5) The pattern of gastric emptying assumed the following three attitudes, that is, exponential (44%), quadratic (29%) and unclassified (27%) pattern.
(6) Plasma urea concentrations decreased linearly (P less than .01) on d 28 as lysine level increased, whereas plasma lysine and insulin were increased (quadratic, P less than .01).
(7) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
(8) This model corresponds to quadratic summation of the stimulus followed by a random threshold device.
(9) The growth rate of broiler chicks fed the diets increased quadratically (P less than .001) with L-threonine addition.
(10) Primitively, vibrations reached the stapes mainly via the anterior hyoid cornu, but in dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodants vibrations passed mainly or exclusively from mandible to quadrate to stapes and the reflected lamina was a component of the eardrum.
(11) In the 3 subsets with duration of disease less than 21 years, stepwise regression produced in the final step linear or quadratic combinations not containing duration of disease but correlating quite well with the 'Larsen index' (R = 0.64-0.96).
(12) Conduction changes were better fitted by this "quadratic model" (least sum of squared deviations 3.9 x 10(-3) by mapping in five dogs, 2.7 x 10(-2) by use of QRS duration in nine dogs) than by a monoexponential model (sum of squared deviations 5.7 x 10(-3) by mapping, 3.4 x 10(-2) with QRS; p less than 0.01 vs. quadratic model for each).
(13) The diagnosis of gravity rests on the measurement of the mean gradient by applying Bernouilli's equation and the point by point quadratic transformation of the transmitral velocity curve obtained by Doppler and the measurement of the mitral area either by measurement of the half-decrease time in pressure or by applying the continuity equation.
(14) In the case of quadratic regression, the type I error will be increased by roughly 50 per cent.
(15) Both food and water intake showed a quadratic relationship with the level of added dietary Cu.
(16) were not found to increase when tested by linear and quadratic models of time trend.
(17) Dose-effect relationships for most of the sampling times were linear and sometimes linear-quadratic concave upward or downward.
(18) The parietal, squamosal, and exoccipital bones, and the quadrate cartilage were displaced when otic capsule material was absent or oversized.
(19) In 1,071 men randomly selected from the general population and in an unrelated sample of 1,209 military men, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were correlated with urinary sodium following a model, which included both the linear and quadratic terms of urinary sodium.
(20) A quadratic discriminant analysis of morphometric-densitometric data of tumour cell nuclei and semiquantitative microscopic data gave a 94% agreement with subjective grading.