(n.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
(n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
(n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
(n.) A critic; a reviewer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
(2) Using the generalized Wilcoxon test for single censored samples, there was no significant difference in survival at any postoperative year when comparing both Groups A and B.
(3) In the NO MISO and PLUS MISO arms, the complete response rate at cystoscopy at 6 months was 63% and 69%, the 5-year survival rate was 41% and 48% and the 5-year local control rate with bladder preservation was 46% and 36% respectively (censored for death from metastases while locally clear).
(4) When conservative outlets accused the site of censoring right-leaning news stories , Zuckerberg fired the trending stories team and replaced them with an algorithm – which almost immediately began to distribute fake news .
(5) Thousands who have confronted the possibility of a libel action have self-censored or backed down.
(6) The results of this study suggest that GTFA is the preferred method for the genetic modeling of censored data obtained from twins.
(7) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
(8) Cameron told MPs: "We have a free press, it's very important the press feels it is not pre-censored from what it writes and all the rest of it.
(9) "And obviously, lyrics had to be approved by censors.
(10) Today the Turkish government has levelled baseless and alarmingly false charges of ‘working on behalf of a terrorist organisation’ against three Vice News reporters, in an attempt to intimidate and censor their coverage,” Sutcliffe said.
(11) It is essential that systems which allow censoring of patient records have continuous built-in audit to monitor the reasons for censoring.
(12) Inclusion of right censored lesions by the Kaplan-Meier approach increased the uncensored estimate by approximately 20%.
(13) For some calves known only was that absorption extended beyond duration of the experiment, causing the data to be censored.
(14) He said the need for realism, insisted on by censors, left "only the ancient Chinese stories to be produced".
(15) A brief survey is given of the historical roots of such methods, of the basic concepts and quantities which are required, and of the maximum likelihood estimates which can be derived for right censored and double censored data.
(16) Google moved quickly to announce that it would stop censoring its Chinese service after realising dissidents were at risk from attempts to use the company's technology for political surveillance, according to a source with direct knowledge of the internet giant's most senior management.
(17) She never censored my reading material and always encouraged my writing ambitions.
(18) Many fellow editors and reporters at RBC say they plan to resign too, while others have vowed to continue their work “until the first story is censored”.
(19) @Roborovski says the government's focus is wrong: Government focus on social messaging clamp-down wrong - 24 hour news channels played far greater role in spread of riots Commenter Porgythecat warns of the wider implications of such proposals: How long before Twitter or Facebook gets shut down during a major environmental protest, or worse, Twitter and Facebook start self censoring in order to avoid government regulation.
(20) We propose a design procedure for determining the study duration or for calculating the power in a group sequential clinical trial with censored survival data and possibly unequal patient allocation between treatments, adjusting for stratified randomization.
Tensor
Definition:
(n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
(n.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, we do point the way to further use of tensor analysis in the study of neural control of movement.
(2) We studied eustachian tube lengths and vectors of the tensor veli palatini muscle in 25 unilateral specimens from adult human cadavers.
(3) As an alternative to tensor theory, we modeled the vertical VOR as a three-layered neural network programmed using the back-propagation learning algorithm.
(4) The tensor palati muscle is divisible into four functional units: (1) anterior part, vertical fibers; (2) middle part, oblique fibers; (3) posterior part, horizontal fibers; and (4) posterior-most part, osseous origin.
(5) The 31P dipolar NMR powder spectrum of a typical stabilized ylid, (C6H5)3(31)P-13CHC(O)OCH2CH3, is analyzed in order to obtain the orientation of the 31P chemical shift tensor with respect to the 31P-13C alpha dipolar vector.
(6) Click evoked electromyographic (EMG) recordings were made from the contralateral tensor tympani muscle of anaesthetised mice.
(7) Ciliated and secretory cells were concentrated around the Eustachian tube orifice; additionally, ciliated cells were seen in two distinct bands extending posteriorly below the cochlea in the hypotympanum and above the cochlea toward the tensor tympani muscle.
(8) It is the purpose of this study to attempt a correlation of function, by electromyographic means, of the tensor tympani and tensor veli palatini muscles in humans.
(9) The latter signals experience little pseudocontact shifts which allow a rough orientation of the magnetic susceptibility tensor in the molecular frame.
(10) The hyperfine coupling tensor is nearly axially symmetric, with principal values (in gauss) of A(1) = 6.5, A(2) = 6.7, A(3) = 33.0.
(11) Perceived orientation was found to be dependent on the eigenvectors of the object's inertia tensor, computed about the point of rotation in the wrist, rather than on its spatial orientation.
(12) The Qzz axis of the nuclear quadrupole interaction tensor for the proximal imidazole nitrogen in MbOH was found to be aligned near gz (gmax) in MbOH, suggesting that gz is near the heme normal.
(13) Treatment of oxidized enzyme with CO causes the g-tensor of the paramagnetic center to change from rhombic to axial symmetry.
(14) The large difference in their midpoint potentials (0 and -400 mV, respectively, in the soluble enzyme) permits the acquisition of individual electron paramagnetic resonance spectra characterized by nearly identical rhombic g tensors (gz = 2.025, gy = 1.93, gx = 1.905).
(15) The observed paramagnetic relaxation rates are analysed in terms of the Solomon-Bloembergen theory, with the g-tensor value of 2 based on the consideration of the protein tertiary structure.
(16) Some peculiar experimental results such as the axial electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of adrenal ferredoxin and Pseudomonas putida ferredoxin and the electric field gradient tensor of P. putida ferredoxin are explained without assuming properties drastically different from those of the other ferredoxins, as had been suggested in the literature.
(17) In the pelvic region three major compartments (gluteus medius-minimus compartment, gluteus maximus compartment, and iliopsoas compartment) can be distinguished from the smaller compartment of the tensor fasciae latae muscle.
(18) For each Raman band in the 300-1800 cm-1 range, relative scattering intensities, Ibb and Icc, which correspond to the bb and cc components of the Raman tensor of the crystal, have been determined.
(19) Typical spindles were found in palatoglossus and tensor veli palatini with a greater number in the latter.
(20) Applications of this method, including the simplification of the measurement of the principal values of the 13C chemical shift tensor under slow MAS conditions, are described.