(n.) The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chronometry of Achilles reflexes in 40 healthy subjects and 25 patients in the recovery period after cerebral stroke with regard to body posture showed that in normal subjects the vertical position was associated with a reduced time of the reflectory response whereas in the patients it was increased.
(2) In his most read book, the 'Makrobiotik', he emphasizes the importance of the 24-h periodicity as a basic unit of biological chronometry.
(3) Application of the impulse-digital chronometry of the intervals of the erythrocyte transit time ensures direct transformation of the measuring trigger signals into a digital code.
(4) The present paper critically examines the contributions of Event-Related Potential (ERP) measures in mental chronometry research.
(5) While changes of N1 "after training" relative to "before training" were statistically non-significant, the N2 component appeared to be a sensitive indicator of the variability in chronometry and lateralization of cerebral processes modified by training.
(6) The combination of gamma topography of the hip joints with gamma chronometry of the first passage of the drug in the femoral arteries using the quantitative criteria of distribution asymmetry expanded and improved the potentialities of radionuclide diagnosis of Perthes' disease.
(7) In this perspective, this work describes the regulation of the technic to determine the heparin activity on the Fibrintimer 10 (F 10) by chronometry (thrombin clotting time with variable concentration), a study of the repeatability and reproducibility of activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), plasma heparin (HEP) and fibrinogen on the Fibrintimer 10, a study of the correlation between the results we got with the F 10 and the thermostat water-bath for the APTT and the HEP and between those we got on the F 10 and the fibrometer for the fibrinogen.
(8) Professiograms were elaborated, with chronometry and appraisal of the burden of the work operations.
(9) Linear rate was measured by the impulse digital chronometry of the intervals of the erythrocyte transit time.
(10) The new parameter developed for evaluation of how ERPs from different electrodes are not like each other allowed to study the mental chronometry as well as the localization of specific cortical areas.
(11) Improved chronometry was one of the prerequisites for measuring cardiac output.
(12) Mental chronometry, in which conclusions about human information processing are reached through measures of subjects' reaction time, has contributed substantially to studies of cognition and action.
Measurement
Definition:
(n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
(n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.