(1) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
(2) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
(3) New management at Lifeline changed the expenses policy to make it legally compliant and asked Flowers to pay the money back.
(4) "While some lenders were MMR-compliant ahead of the official launch at the end of April, using May data to assess the impact of the new rules is perhaps premature," he said.
(5) Increasing deterioration of qualitative PPG values of deep-valve assessment was found in both compliant and noncompliant patients at each testing interval.
(6) The lungs of the group treated with thyrotropin-releasing hormone plus steroid and the rabbits treated only with steroid were more compliant than the controls without surfactant therapy, and showed significant improvements in protein leak.
(7) With increasing age, the airways were found to be less compliant, and the tracheal relaxation time constant was observed to decrease.
(8) Stress reduced the quality of problem solving in both compliant and noncompliant parents, but even under high stress, compliant parents demonstrated better problem-solving abilities than noncompliant parents.
(9) In relatively stiff lungs, an even distribution of elastance may increase susceptibility to barotrauma, because the more compliant zones are subjected to a greater strain.
(10) It measures the biologic action of treatment among compliant persons.
(11) They wanted food, beverages and personal products to be sharia-compliant, but showed more flexibility in products and services such as finance, insurance and travel.
(12) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
(13) That process could see Kenya’s national anti-doping agency being declared non-compliant – although insiders were keen to stress the chances of the country being removed from the Olympics were slim because the International Olympic Committee would need to kick Kenya out.
(14) However, although NA is correlated with health compliant scales, it is not strongly or consistently related to actual, long-term health status, and thus will act as a general nuisance factor in health research.
(15) A ""steal phenomenon'' or passive collapse in compliant coronary lesions during vasodilatation seems unlikely; in fact, patients were free from coronary symptoms, and the electrocardiographic alterations occurred only in seven patients in Group 2, who had a greater left ventricular mass index and required a larger pressure drop to return the diastolic pressure to normal.
(16) (Guardian Australia) Government ads could be outside the guidelines The independent advertising watchdog has warned that some of Labor's pre-election advertising campaigns for its disability and education reforms may not be compliant with the government's own advertising guidelines.
(17) It said “terminating a sub-contract agreement is the strongest message we can send to those who are found to be non-compliant”.
(18) Pressure-volume curves from nine ferrets (including the above six) revealed almost infinitely compliant chest walls so that lung and total respiratory system curves were essentially the same.
(19) Initial measurements of the time-varying wall shear rate at two sites in a compliant cast of a human aortic bifurcation are presented.
(20) The Cohen CAD Scale, based on Horney's psychoanalytic theory, measured compliant, aggressive and detached interpersonal orientations.
Standard
Definition:
(n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
(n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
(n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
(n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
(n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
(n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
(n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
(n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
(n.) The sheth of a plow.
(n.) A large drinking cup.
(a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
(a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
(a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
(a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) 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.
(4) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(5) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(8) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(9) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
(10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(11) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(12) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(13) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(14) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(15) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(16) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(17) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(18) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(19) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
(20) A number of variables which could influence the test has been evaluated and standardized in a way suitable for the routinary use of the technique described.