(n.) A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
Example Sentences:
(1) In comparison with the hospital catchment population, the unemployed were over-represented and the greater than 40 age range under-represented.
(2) Long-term utilization rates were calculated for the different catchment areas and for different sociodemographic and diagnostic groups.
(3) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(4) Our control group was the population in the catchment area of the department.
(5) We present a methodology based on exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques that we have found useful in examining health-related data for our ambulatory care catchment area.
(6) A sample of psychiatrists (n = 72) working in 20 community mental health centers (CMHCs) representative of the organizational and catchment area characteristics of operating Centers were queried as part of a larger study (n = 595) of community mental health worker roles.
(7) Adipose tissue is a catchment area for storing, converting and releasing the sex hormones.
(8) The surface of the roof, used as water catchment, was covered with bird faeces.
(9) We examined the prevalence of somatization disorder symptoms elicited with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule in 3132 community respondents interviewed in Los Angeles by the Epidemiologic Catchment Area program.
(10) A current challenge to existing psychiatric units in the large teaching hospitals in the capital cities of Australia is whether they will take on a catchment area responsibility, or remain independent of any plans for regionalization of psychiatric services.
(11) More importantly, we tested and verified the hypothesis that there is a relationship between concentrations of dormant, viable endospores of T. vulgaris in lake sediments and the extent of agriculture in the catchments of the lakes.
(12) We have developed a blueprint for survival that, when fully implemented, will improve access to health care for all residents in our catchment area and optimize surgical education.
(13) Data were gathered retrospectively, through standardized household interviews conducted in 1981 for the Baltimore site of the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program.
(14) It must be in a position to carry out organizational and educational activities in catchment areas.
(15) Plus, the catchment area of the Baltic is three times bigger than the sea itself, and is home to 90 million people.
(16) The environmental sources of lead considered here do not appear to fully account for the higher PbB levels in the children in the catchment area.
(17) Patients who were distressed high utilizers of primary care had an extremely high prevalence of current panic disorder (12%) and lifetime panic disorder (30%), which supported the association between panic disorder and high medical utilization found in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Study.
(18) Health Insuring Organizations (HIOs) are capitated plans that serve all of the Medicaid beneficiaries in a defined catchment area.
(19) Taking into account all the arguments, a complete recording of case notes in selected catchment areas seems the most efficient solution today.
(20) Interviews were also conducted with representatives from hospitals and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health in three mental health catchment areas.
Watershed
Definition:
(n.) The whole region or extent of country which contributes to the supply of a river or lake.
(n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anterior borderzone brachial paralysis (ABBP) is a hemodynamic ischemic syndrome of the watershed zone between the anterior and middle cerebral arteries.
(2) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(3) The issue was first raised by BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow and brought to the attention of the then BBC Vision director Jana Bennett – number two to BBC director general Mark Thompson – after the sitcom, which was planned for a post-9pm watershed slot, was moved to pre-watershed.
(4) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
(5) But campaign groups are now convinced that they have lost the battle on the pre-watershed ban.
(6) Cerebral watershed infarctions usually occur after a period of acute and severe systemic hypotension resulting in a distinctive clinical picture.
(7) Monthly mean concentrations of dieldrin in river water and most aquatic organisms were highest in June and July, soon after aldrin had been applied to corn land in the watershed.
(8) It marked a watershed in public perceptions of Brown, and represents the biggest unforced political error in the history of New Labour.
(9) Pardew's antics will generate yet more negative headlines for a club never far from controversy for one reason or another, and the manager admits that the episode may well be a personal watershed.
(10) Last month, public discontent spilled over for the first time when Putin was booed during an appearance at a martial arts fight , an event described by analysts as a watershed moment in his rule.
(11) The oxygen extraction fraction rose with the distance from the anterior portion of the circle of Willis, attaining the highest value in the superior parietal and posterior temporo-occipital watershed area.
(12) Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT may be more sensitive than CT in the detection of infarctions in the watershed distribution.
(13) Lee Hsien Loong acknowledged that was a watershed, promising to listen to voters.
(14) In 1819, the area of Manchester then known as St Peter's Field was the scene of a watershed moment in the struggle for universal suffrage, when around 15 protesters were variously bayoneted, shot and trampled to death in the so-called Peterloo Massacre .
(15) Swine faeces from three pig farms in the La Crosse River watershed near La Crosse, Wisconsin, were sampled for Yersinia enterocolitica; 19 presumptive isolates were recovered and biochemically confirmed as Y. enterocolitica.
(16) If that happens, the Britain that votes to join the anti-Isis alliance will have crossed a post-Iraq watershed.
(17) The lesions were thought to be in the watershed areas of the regional arterial supplies, and the areas were considered to be prone to ischemia.
(18) The position of the watershed zone could be important to explain the visual field defect in anterior ischemic optic neuropathy and glaucoma.
(19) Only a few deep infarctions were watershed infarction possibly.
(20) Watershed cerebral infarcts can now be identified in stroke survivors using CT scanning.