(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(3) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(4) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(5) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
(6) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(7) The system of automated diagnosis makes it possible to significantly increase the quality and efficacy of wide-scale prophylactic check-ups of the population.
(8) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(9) After a four-week period on a placebo, hypertensive smokers were treated with slow-release nicardipine 40 mg twice daily for six months and were checked at the end of the placebo period, after the first dose of nicardipine and at the end of six months of therapy.
(10) Adverse events and life status were checked at regular intervals.
(11) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(12) Other details showed the wrong patient undergoing a heart procedure, and the wrong patient given an invasive colonoscopy to check their bowel.
(13) Also remember that each time you apply for a loan your credit record is checked, which will leave a footprint of the search.
(14) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(15) Once outside the body they can be purified, expanded in culture, and checked via genome sequencing to ensure the editing has been successful.
(16) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
(17) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
(18) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
(19) At the centre of the Zyed and Bouna deaths is the continuing issue of police controls, stop and searches and identity checks.
(20) And all senior management will be required to drive Toyota vehicles and check where the problems lie.
Confirming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confirm
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(3) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(4) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
(5) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(6) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(7) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(8) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
(9) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(10) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(11) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
(12) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(13) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(14) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
(15) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(16) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(17) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
(18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(19) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
(20) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.