(n.) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league.
(n.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
(n.) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See Fine.
(n.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.
(n.) A variety of American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters.
(v. i.) To agree; to act together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(2) In gram positive organisms, the concordance was lower only for the differentiation between group D streptococci and enterococci.
(3) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
(4) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.
(5) The concordance, sensitivity, and specificity of proxy reports about partners' occupation, smoking, and drinking were examined in relation to self-reports.
(6) Results with the two EIA systems were concordant and detected 13 positive samples, each of which was confirmed by WB.
(7) The previous Ba’athist and Shia governments tried to deviate the Muslim generation from their path through their educational programmes that concord with their governments and political whims.
(8) Three donors (12%) were concordantly positive for HBV DNA and hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and had IgM antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc).
(9) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
(10) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(11) These bounds require an investigator to specify a range of possible concordances for the times to occurrences of the competing risks.
(12) A comparative study between MAR test and IBT in 142 seminal samples is presented by the authors and their concordance with TAT and SIT is also evaluated.
(13) An interpretation is given: if the mutated gene(s) has its effect in early embryological stages, affected relatives may have any type of CHD, but if the alteration occurs later, concordance is expected to be found.
(14) These methods have been implemented as a collection of short microcomputer programmes, and applied to the study of the temporal relationship between beta-endorphin and cortisol in normal subjects sampled every 10 min for 24 h. This analysis demonstrated concordance between events in the two series, with synchronous occurrence of beta-endorphin and cortisol release events significantly more frequently than expected on the basis of random association (p less than 0.01).
(15) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
(16) The correlation was less concordant in patients with intracranial vascular malformations or lesions involving cranial bones.
(17) There was concordance amongst the three groups in some areas but there were also differences between patients, R.N.
(18) Therefore, even given the existence of concordant cases, without inquiring precisely into the quality or degree of anorexia nervosa, it is not possible to conclude that hereditary factors play a determining role in the etiology of anorexia nervosa.
(19) Up to now, to interpret antibiotic susceptibility tests, the common practice has been to use: first, breakpoints without any quantitative justification, secondly, concordance curves between the different measurement techniques; these are not well adapted to the heterogeneous character of bacterial populations.
(20) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).
Consensus
Definition:
(n.) Agreement; accord; consent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
(2) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
(3) All members of this family contain consensus sequence elements consistent with GTP binding near their amino termini, although none has been shown to have GTPase activity.
(4) The C4 and C4b models are compared with possible structures for the C1 component of complement to show the importance of the surface accessibility of the protease domains and short consensus repeat domains in C1 for C4 activation.
(5) For dyslexia, schizophrenia, and depression, there is a considerable volume of research reports but still no consensus about how to use quantitative EEG tests for care of individual patients.
(6) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(7) Since the N-terminal amino acid of the coat protein of PVA was blocked, the position of the putative coat protein cleavage site has been deduced by searching for consensus sequences and by the analogy to other potyviruses.
(8) Study 2 provides evidence that an innovative weighted scoring approach, based on current medical consensus, can be used to produce a reliable, general index of pathology that is independent of the number of procedures used to evaluate patients.
(9) However, a purified recombinant fragment of the GR which contained essentially only its DNA binding domain was unable to bind at the GME although it interacted strongly with a consensus GRE sequence.
(10) And there seems to be party consensus that this is a good thing; a poll released this week by NBC News and Survey Monkey found that 57% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want Sanders to stay in the race until the convention.
(11) A consensus promoter sequence was found immediately 5' to the first ORF.
(12) The nucleotide sequence of the E3 promoter region revealed consensus sequences for several DNA binding proteins but no apparent TATA box or Sp1 sites.
(13) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(14) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
(15) Curbelo said that the caucus is an “ideas factory” but there are no consensus solutions to go with the group’s name.
(16) For now, given the group's perceived correlation with consumer confidence, consensus opinion continues to denote a sell [on the shares]."
(17) The inhibitory properties of these peptides depend mainly on the presence of the QxVxG consensus sequence.
(18) Several promoter elements in the correct orientation for the transcript are present including consensus TATA and CAAT boxes and an SP1 site.
(19) Op72a matches the consensus sequence, whereas Op72b contains two mismatches.
(20) Previous observations have shown that three out of the four major sites of polyadenylation do not display consensus hexanucleotide (AATAAA, ATTAAA) signals.