(n.) Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity.
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.
Convection
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
(n.) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(2) These convective streaming motions combine with molecular diffusion to produce augmented diffusion which transports O2 and CO2 between the trachea and the peripheral alveoli.
(3) The results indicate that after the fifth breath the increase in Sn during a MBNW is diffusion independent and may constitute a sensitive index of convection-dependent inhomogeneity (CDI).
(4) Hemodiafiltration (HDF) is a new dialysis treatment that combines convective and diffusive forces.
(5) We must accept a non-convective triggering of nystagmus in extraterrestrial space.
(6) The findings suggest that patients with pseudotumour cerebri have a convective transependymal flow of water causing an interstitial brain oedema and in addition an intracellular brain water accumulation.
(7) The recovery of fluorescence due to diffusion and convection within the medium was monitored and analyzed to yield values of the diffusion coefficient and the fluid velocity.
(8) The O2 transfer mechanisms in this model include diffusion and reaction within the RBC and diffusion and convection in the medium surrounding the RBC.
(9) The "kinetic" comparison of PFD and HDF to HBD, using equal quantities of dialysate, showed no significant change in the mention of uremic toxins of small molecular weight and a more efficient capacity to extract beta 2M by the diffusive-convective methods.
(10) The airway deadspace is the volume of the airway in which gas moves chiefly by convection.
(11) The 1st breeding phase coincides with the South-West monsoons and the 2nd with the convectional rains in the month of March.
(12) Calculated values of residual compressive stress for tempered specimens were considerably higher than those for specimens that were slowly cooled and those that were cooled by free convection.
(13) Because maximum expiratory flow-volume rates in normal subjects are dependent on gas density, the resistance between alveoli and the point at which dynamic compression begins (R(us)) is mostly due to convective acceleration and turbulence.
(14) In any situation where heat production as a result of physical exercise exceeds heat elimination from the body by radiation and convection, the body will depend on sweat secretion and evaporation for its thermoregulation.
(15) Due to the energy input and the associated thermal convection a separation of the three differently charged cell types in distinct peaks was not possible under 1 g-conditions as shown by reference experiments on the ground before launch.
(16) These mechanisms include: convective graviosmosis and related effects, gravidiffusional graviosmosis, and osmotic transport aided by gravitational force in multi-membrane systems.
(17) Both theoretical and experimental evidence indicates that only the first of these mechanisms could result in the steady-state caloric response that is observed in the absence of convection (e.g., in spaceflight and after canal plugging) and that contributes to the prone-supine asymmetry seen in caloric testing.
(18) The dead spaces for hydrogen and sulfur hexafluoride are predicted from the solution of a partial differential equation, applied to Weibel's morphometric data of the lung, and including longitudinal convection and diffusion coupled with instantaneous radial diffusion.
(19) It is concluded that in the conditions of the experiments convective mixing by the cardiac action played an insignificant role in promoting intrapulmonary mixing and transport.
(20) the circulation of blood through a cuprophane dialyzer with the dialysate compartment closed to avoid diffusion and convective transport of fluid and solutes.