(n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
(n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
(n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
(n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
(n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
(n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
(n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
(n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
(n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
(n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
(n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
(v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(3) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(4) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
(5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(6) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
(7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(8) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(9) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(10) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
(11) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(12) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(13) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(14) Studies were conducted into the relationship between arthrosis and previous trauma.
(15) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(16) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
(17) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
(18) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
(19) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
(20) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
Nonconducting
Definition:
(a.) Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined that the loss of somatosensory evoked potential amplitude may be attributed to the SOL if 30-100% of the spinal cord fibers that they displaced were rendered nonconducting.
(2) The microwave data are analysed using the Maxwell mixture theory applicable for a suspension of nonconducting, low permittivity spheres in bulk water.
(3) Protons can cross the membrane either as CHBr (nonconductive) or as CH+ (conductive), whereas Br- crosses the membrane primarily as CHBr (nonconductive).
(4) Reduction of the luminal [Cl-] from 120 to 3 mM failed to reveal any apical Cl- permeability (conductive or nonconductive) in CF cultures.
(5) The model is based on the notion that the transition between a conductive and a nonconductive state of the channel represents a local process in the protein, such as the movement of a small segment of a peptide chain or the rotation of a single amino-acid residue.
(6) The effects of conductive versus nonconductive samplers and sampling flow rate were measured as a function of particle and sampler charge levels.
(7) The slow voltage-dependent correlation time in the range of seconds is assigned to the formation of nonconducting pore precursors.
(8) The sensitivity of the measurements was increased if a nonconducting solution (isotonic sucrose) was used to isolate electrically the control from the experimental sites.
(9) The saline-filled and conductive catheter was safer in that fibrillation never occurred, while fibrillation nearly always occurred with the nonconductive catheter.
(10) Patients undergoing cardiac catheterization are particularly at risk from electrical hazards, primarily because catheters are made from nonconductive materials.
(11) A method for recording O2 concentrations in nonconducting organic media with the Clark oxygen electrode was developed.
(12) In a membrane containing many of these channels, the ratio of the number of conducting to nonconducting channels changes e-fold per 3.7 mV.
(13) The use of nonconducting materials on the mucosal side allowed us to demonstrate that apparently all epithelial cells are electrically coupled, with a mean space constant of 460 microm, and a voltage spread consistent with a thin sheet model.
(14) The relative contrast produced by nonconducting spheres in a uniform saline background was measured on the reconstructed images and used to determine system sensitivity to target volume and to the radial and vertical positions of single spheres.
(15) Following voltage-dependent activation, Drosophila Shaker K+ channels enter a nonconducting, inactivated state.
(16) The hypothesis that PT could interact with open or slow inactivated states to produce a drug-bound, long duration, nonconducting state was also tested.
(17) To examine the dynamic interrelations between conducted and nonconducted beats at different atrial rates, a unique atrial pacing protocol of functional 2:1 AV block was used in 10 patients.
(18) Class 1b drugs became rapidly attached to sodium channels after depolarization, which rendered them nonconducting, but the drugs also dissociated rapidly after repolarization so that by the end of a normal diastole nearly all channels were back to their conducting state.
(19) A nonconductive chamber was built with 1-cm-diameter electrodes placed 1 cm apart.
(20) Concealed (C) His bundle ectopic systoles (H') have been shown in man to give rise to first and second degree atrioventricular (A-V) block and to simulate nonconducted atrial premature beats (P').