(v. i.) To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
(2) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
(3) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(4) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(5) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
(6) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
(7) Skin allografts survived longer on ALS-treated, complement-deficient (C5 negative) recipients than on ALS-treated, complement-competent (C5 positive) recipients.
(8) LM-fragment-8 competes for this binding to the same extent as unlabelled LM (75%), while fragment PI is inactive and fibronectin (FN) competes by about 30% only.
(9) These agents compete with catecholamines at beta-adrenoreceptors.
(10) It is also suggested that alpha-lactalbumin, GTP, UDP, and CDP compete with the binding of HRP to a glycosyltransferase on the cell surface.
(11) Well-refined x-ray structures of the liganded forms of the wild-type and a mutant protein isolated from a strain defective in chemotaxis but fully competent in transport have provided a molecular view of the sugar-binding site and of a site for interacting with the Trg transmembrane signal transducer.
(12) The antagonist drugs showed the following order of potency to displace [3H]prazosin: prazosin much greater than phentolamine much greater than corynanthine greater than pyrextramine much greater than yohimbine much greater than piperoxan greater than benextramine greater than idazoxan; for the agonists: clonidine much greater than (-)-noradrenaline much greater than (-)-adrenaline much greater than phenylephrine, while other drugs, such as (-)-propranolol, dopamine, (-)-isoproterenol and serotonin only competed with the alpha-1-ligand at concentrations above 20 microM.
(13) Application of the chemoattractant, cAMP (20 nM), to aggregation-competent cells induced a rapid increase in [Ca2+]i within 1-2 s, and the [Ca2+]i level increased to about four-fold higher than the resting [Ca2+]i within 30 s of chemotactic stimulation.
(14) The present study was designed to evaluate competence of KM231 for immunotherapy of cancer.
(15) Quality of anaesthesia and risk of intoxication are competing principles in IVRA.
(16) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
(17) Lindane proved to be ten times more potent in competing with 35S-TBPS binding in electric organ than rat brain, while the bicyclophosphate analogs displayed up to three orders of magnitude greater affinity for rat brain over electric organ.
(18) In Experiment 1, subjects performing in groups of four were compared with individual performers both in competing and noncompeting (coacting) conditions.
(19) Competent nursing care depends on open and effective communication between the nurse and the patient.
(20) Furthermore, asialo-Pg does not compete with native Pg for cell binding.
Compute
Definition:
(v. t.) To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.
(n.) Computation.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
(3) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(4) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(5) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(6) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(7) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(8) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(9) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(10) Excellent correlations were observed between computer and manual methods for both systems.
(11) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
(12) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(13) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(14) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(15) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(16) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(17) The computer tomographic appearances of lesions of parenchymatous organs following blunt abdominal trauma are described in 13 patients (five liver, four renal, two splenic and two pancreatic injuries).
(18) 3 patients had complete disappearance of the symptoms but did not have a computed tomography scanning control, 3 patients had clinical and CT recovery.
(19) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(20) Computed tomography does not allow differentiation between these lesions and surrounding normal tissues.