(n.) The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
(n.) The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(2) Hatching commenced in early October (after 23 wk), when air and water temperatures decreased to 20 and 15 degrees C, respectively, and continued until mid-December (32 wk) in the field.
(3) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
(4) It was found that a rapid fall in infant mortality commenced in the early 1970s and has continued steadily since.
(5) Paracoccus (Micrococcus) denitrificans and Escherichia coli oxidizing succinate rapidly ceased to reduce nitrate when oxygen was available, and equally rapidly commenced nitrate reduction when all the oxygen had been consumed.
(6) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(7) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
(8) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(9) Patients were commenced on an intravenous infusion of the calcium chelating agent trisodium edetate at a dose of 24 mg kg-1 h-1 given in 500 ml 0.9% saline over 90 min.
(10) Lesions were sampled before treatment commenced and at monthly intervals for 4-6 months.
(11) Tragedy was averted because there was a little delay as the prayers did not commence in earnest and the bomb strapped to the body of the girl went off and killed her,” he added.
(12) But two of the three judges who subsequently considered the issue said: “We are also of the opinion that there was no basis for the primary judge to conclude that Brough was part of any combination with anyone in respect to the commencement of these proceedings with the predominant purpose of damaging Slipper in the way alleged or at all.” Brough said Dreyfus should look at the federal court’s findings on 27 April 2014 – which appeared to be a reference to the decision handed down on 27 February 2014.
(13) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(14) Animals were sacrificed 1, 2, 6 and 24 hrs from commencement of anaesthesia and the hepatic microsomal fraction analyzed for diene conjugates, lipid hydroperoxides, total lipid content and fatty acid composition.
(15) After birth there were significant increases in apical microvillus height, the number of microvilli per cell and in the size of the mitochondria, suggesting that a large increase in choroid plexus secretory function, or the commencement of a new function, occurs after birth in the rat.
(16) Each patient underwent exercise stress testing in the untreated state to permit comparison between tests performed on commencement and completion of training.
(17) At least 9% of the respondents did not practice heifer calf vaccination whilst another 8.1% only commenced with vaccination during 1985 or later.
(18) Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker .
(19) Middle-mode RNA synthesis in T4-infected cells takes place before replication of phage DNA commences.
(20) The associations were not explained by duration of smoking, by the time elapsed since commencement, or by factors associated with cigarette smoking such as alcohol consumption or oral contraceptive use.
Graduation
Definition:
(n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
(n.) The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.
(n.) The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
(3) Controversy exists regarding immunization with pertussis vaccine of high-risk special care nursery graduates.
(4) Approximately half the foreign graduates born in the United States studied in Italy, and 10% in Switzerland, Mexico and Belgium.
(5) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
(6) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(7) In 1984, 286 male US graduates matched in pathology, but this number dropped to 150 in 1985 and 149 in 1986.
(8) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
(9) 31 junior high students and seven university undergraduates who graduated from the same junior high school seven years before were asked to draw a layout of the school campus.
(10) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
(11) This conclusion is based on a misconception: that science graduates are limited to a career in science.
(12) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
(13) Also, when using these drugs, one must often follow a meticulously graduated dosage regimen, while carefully monitoring the patient for toxic and potentially lethal side effects.
(14) A graduate can earn £240,000 more than a non-maths graduate.
(15) A graduate education program in public health for American Indians was introduced in the fall of 1971 at the College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
(16) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
(17) A questionnaire was administered to 57 UWI-trained medical graduates presently doing their internship in Jamaica.
(18) THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR MEDICAL LIBRARY PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES CONSISTS OF FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS: graduate degree programs in library science with specialization in medical librarianship; graduate degree programs in library science with no such specialization; postgraduate internships in medical libraries; continuing education programs.
(19) As a result of the clerkship's success, over 50 percent of the program's graduates actively practice in primary medical manpower shortage or medically underserved areas.
(20) (2) COME is third-grade medical education producing third-grade graduates and 'barefoot doctors'.