What's the difference between confidence and fiducially?
Confidence
Definition:
(n.) The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in.
(n.) That in which faith is put or reliance had.
(n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.
(n.) Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were confidences between them.
(n.) Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
(n.) Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
(n.) Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault; dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
(n.) Giving occasion for confidence.
Example Sentences:
(1) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
(2) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(3) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(5) But Howard added that it may take a while and he is not confident the political reality will change.
(6) Jaczko's appearance was the second show of confidence in the nuclear industry since Sunday.
(7) Subjects in the highest quartile of the insulin distribution had 6.6 times the risk of developing type II diabetes as subjects in the remaining three quartiles combined (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.14-13.7).
(8) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(9) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(10) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(11) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(12) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(13) The changes are necessary to produce confident, supportive community oriented nurses.
(14) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(15) Central assessment of the angiograms revealed a patent infarct-related artery in 78 patients (patency rate 66%, 95% confidence limits 57 to 74%).
(16) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
(17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(18) We are confident that the European commission’s state aid decision on Hinkley Point C is legally robust,” a spokeswoman for Britain’s Department of Energy and Climate Change said last week.
(19) By 1988, nearly one-half of the public expressed confidence in the future of the Social Security program.
(20) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
Fiducially
Definition:
(adv.) With confidence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of exclusion versus inclusion of the fiducial timing point optimizing routine in the signal averaging program was examined in 21 patients.
(2) This includes the analysis of the transfer characteristics of the image detection system, the use of laser-induced fiducials for deformation correction and alignment, the control of section thickness by EELS and the use of ESI to image thick sections.
(3) By using a slope-ratio bioassay model, the relative biological availability of endogenous and added zinc in milk-based formula was estimated to be 0.86 and that of soy-based formula 0.67 (zinc sulphate = 1.00) with corresponding 95% fiducial limits being 0.82 to 0.91 and 0.62 to 0.71.
(4) This template is subsequently superimposed on the radiographs in a longitudinal series by the structural method, which permits the transference of two fiducial points.
(5) This article describes a new body stereotaxic system that defines a fiducial point by means of a skin localization device placed directly on the patient.
(6) These rDNA signals are used as fiducial markers when aligning the two fluorescent images.
(7) A method is described for calculating fiducial intervals for the serological potency estimates, and it is shown that these intervals are no larger than, and are in fact probably smaller than, those obtained from quantal challenge tests.
(8) We present here a solution to the problem of alignment for single-axis tomography using fiducial markers.
(9) Verification of the accuracy of the stereotactic positioning is obtained with computer-generated overlays of the vascular malformation, stereotactic fiducial markers, and bony landmarks on orthogonal radiographs immediately prior to treatment.
(10) For each cardiac and average cycle the amplitude at 6 physiologic fiducial markers are measured and derived calculations are made.
(11) Developed procedures for use on a microscope equipped with a precision scanning stage allow registration of the image coordinates (X-Y) for any original or composite field and the alignment of one of these fields along the depth (Z) axis by means of external, machined fiducial marks in serial sections.
(12) A dynamic multi-image environment allows for simultaneous display of magnetic resonance, computed tomography, digital subtraction angiography, and positron emission tomography images in multiple windows, adjusted for common coordinates with reference to stereotactic frame fiducial markers.
(13) This system for signal averaging of the Frank vectorcardiogram incorporates several important features: 1, simultaneous analogue to digital conversion of three orthogonal leads; 2, interactive editing of the data; 3, optimization of the fiducial timing point using a template derived from the calculated QRS vector magnitude; and 4, simultaneous display of both the averaged recording and the noise level at high amplification, which facilitates the assessment of low amplitude signals in the ST segment.
(14) LD50 data with 95% fiducial limits are reported for each mixture and tests for additive joint toxicity were made.
(15) The average fiducial limits rates were less than 20%.
(16) Since the method relies on anatomic information in the images rather than on external fiducial markers, it can be applied retrospectively.
(17) Determination of the position in space of the plate with control points in relation to the plate with fiducial marks requires more consideration.
(18) A major benefit is the inclusion of a routine to optimize the QRS fiducial timing point.
(19) The results indicate that heading perception is robust against degradation of the flow-field by the presence of noise or by the reduction of the lifetime of the fiducial points.
(20) The localisation of the aberration requires induction of the arrhythmia, simultaneous measurement of activity from many (100-200) sites over the surface of the heart, attachment of fiducial markers to this data, and display of the activation sequence in the form of an isochronous map.