What's the difference between computer and literacy?

Computer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who computes.

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.

Literacy


Definition:

  • (n.) State of being literate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
  • (2) Local church groups run family outreach programs and free literacy courses for refugees.
  • (3) But surely all this short-form writing is eroding literacy?
  • (4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
  • (5) Since World War II the literacy rate has jumped to 90%, and has received recognition by UNESCO for its efforts.
  • (6) Think co-ordinator Dr Carlos Gigoux said: “Think seminars really make a university what it should be - a place where you think creatively and critically and engage with society from a human and professional experience.” Runner up: Teesside University The Student’s Academic Literacy Tool (Salt) is a writing tool that helps students learn about the key stylistic features required for a high standard of academic writing.
  • (7) It means that children entering reception class in September 2015 are likely to be assessed using the new system, recording each child’s literacy and numeracy skills within a few weeks of their starting school.
  • (8) High literacy among mothers, good breast-feeding practices, low mortality due to diarrhoea, malaria, and measles, and a well-functioning rural health care system were considered to be the main contributing factors to the low infant mortality.
  • (9) The evaluation was conducted for children only at the end of the project because of literacy problems, but mothers were administered questionnaires pre- and postproject with 8% absenteeism at the end of the project.
  • (10) This coverage was low despite the relatively high literacy rate in Akpabuyo (57.8%).
  • (11) Low literacy is a problem in a large segment of our population.
  • (12) This study assesses the relationship between literacy and labour rates among the adults and children in 17 Indian states.
  • (13) The impact of maternal literacy status on the nutritional status of pre-school children in Parbhani was studied.
  • (14) Longterm gains in this area require attention to behavioral and community development issues, including reduction of the sex and parity related differentials in mortality, enhancement of the status of women, improved female literacy and employment opportunities, improved intrafamilial food distribution patterns, maternity benefits, provision of potable water, intersectoral development to strengthen health care delivery, increased community participation, expanded health services, and enhancement of the pace of development.
  • (15) It is expected that with increasing literacy and progress in sex knowledge the syndrome will become less common.
  • (16) The acquisition of information literacy and fluency will be mandatory techniques for the future practice of medicine and should be taught at the institutional level by faculty sophisticated in the use of information retrieval systems.
  • (17) Unlike in Mali , education is free in the camp so this is a good place to start.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nafissa with a volunteer and an employee of Intersos’s support centre for gender-based violence Unicef says 6,000 children who had never been to school have attended literacy classes at Mbera since 2013.
  • (18) Later, she signed up for courses in literacy, numeracy and retail at a sixth form college in Stratford, east London, working as a domestic cleaner to pay her bus fare.
  • (19) Changes in health service and infant mortality seem natural results of the betterment of education and literacy.
  • (20) Further support for such conceptualizing is found in a positive correlation between certain low literacy skills and the specific results (in 6000 examined cases) on the new drawing test.