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Cest


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Research conducted under norm theory (NT) has provided impressive evidence of an if only (IO) effect associated with postoutcome processing of aversive events that are highly consistent with formulations in CEST.
  • (2) According to cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), individuals have 2 systems for processing information, a rational system and an experiential system.
  • (3) In the experiments performed in chick embryos, using the chick embryo screening test (CEST)-1 and CEST-2 technique, 100 various classes of chemical substances have been tested for teratogenic activity.
  • (4) We must now wait until 1.30pm BST, or 2.30pm CEST, to hear Mario Draghi's statement and the question & answer session to find out what has been agreed on the bond-buying programme....
  • (5) Three experiments (N = 1,331) demonstrated that research findings on suspiciousness about coincidences (Miller, Turnbull, & McFarland, 1989) can be accounted for in terms of subjective probability, as predicted by cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) but in contrast with the norm theory (NT) account offered by Miller et al.
  • (6) This exception includes danger to the life or health of the mother, risk of serious hereditary disease or other congenital abnormality, and pregnancy due to rape or in cest; in cases of serious need, in which social and economic damage to existing children may be expected, the presiding judge may dismiss the case.
  • (7) The prediction of minimum concentrations at steady state on the basis of these parameters corresponded well with actually obtained Cest f following repetitive administration of PB.
  • (8) As primary treatment cest-tube drainage was more effective than closed chest tubes.
  • (9) Responses across 4 conditions (2 probability levels x 2 outcome types) and across the 3 experiments supported predictions derived from CEST but not those derived from NT.
  • (10) The temporal course of Cest f obtained from Cs after an oral single dose of 50 mg PB in a healthy adult male volunteer was approximated as a triexponential equation.
  • (11) Two studies involving vignettes adapted from NT were conducted that tested 4 hypotheses and corollaries derived from CEST.
  • (12) The Bacteroides conjugal elements tested were six conjugal tetracycline resistance (Tcr) elements (which appear to be chromosomal), i.e., Tcr ERL, Tcr V479, Tcr Emr ERL, Tcr Emr 12256, Tcr Emr DOT, and Tcr Emr CEST, and the conjugal erythromycin resistance (Emr) plasmid pBF4.
  • (13) We'll also get an update on the German economy, with the monthly ZEW economic sentiment data published at 10am BST ( 11am CEST ).
  • (14) The ECB will announce its decision on interest rates at 12.45pm BST ( 1.45pm CEST ), followed by a press conference 45 minutes later.

Test


Definition:

  • (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
  • (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
  • (n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
  • (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
  • (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
  • (n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
  • (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
  • (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
  • (v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
  • (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
  • (n.) A witness.
  • (v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
  • (n.) Alt. of Testa

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
  • (2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (3) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
  • (4) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (5) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (6) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (7) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
  • (8) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (9) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (10) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (11) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
  • (12) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
  • (13) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (14) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (15) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (16) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
  • (17) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (18) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (19) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
  • (20) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.

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