(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(3) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(4) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(5) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(6) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(7) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(8) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(9) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(13) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(14) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(15) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(16) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(17) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(18) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(19) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(20) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
Fac
Definition:
(n.) A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking after the meeting in the Air Studios in north London, FAC board member and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien described the outcome as "groundbreaking".
(2) Comparison of the results of this study with previously reported programs of FAC chemotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer shows that this study achieved higher overall and complete response rates.
(3) The following measurements were made relative to lymph nodes of untreated animals: (i) the expansion of the T-cell dependent areas in combination with the increase of HEV in this area, as detected by the HEV-specific mAb MECA-325, using morphometric analysis: (ii) the influx of FITC-labelled lymphocytes from the blood into the lymph node by FACS: (iii) the capacity of HEV to bind lymphocytes using an in vitro binding assay.
(4) FACS analysis revealed that approximately 40% of the EC population expressed HLA-DR antigen.
(5) At the functional level, we show that polyreactive IgM autoantibodies are produced by FACS-sorted CD5high B cells, but not by CD5- B cells from adolescent spleen.
(6) We studied changes in the distribution pattern of relative RNA content during the in vitro aging of TIG-3 cells by flow cytometry (FACS III).
(7) A regimen of ip injected antibody achieved rapid reduction of NK cells in diabetic and nondiabetic BB rats by FACS analysis.
(8) Pretreatment of beta-cells, purified by FACS with IL-1 beta results in a 40% inhibition of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion that is prevented by the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (NMMA).
(9) To test the diagnostic utility of FACs in BAL fluids, we compared 20 PCP-positive and 28 PCP-negative fluids as assessed by silver stains.
(10) The systematic study highlighted the fact that any laboratory contemplating conversion from microscopic reading of the GIFT should carefully evaluate and standardize their interpretation of FACS results with their manual reference method.
(11) We describe here the methods by which enriched populations of oligodendrocytes were isolated from adult porcine brains using Percoll density gradient centrifugation and their immunological properties analyzed by a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS).
(12) For those who do not respond to FAC, the combinations active in refractory disease include vinca alkaloids and mitomycin C combinations.
(13) An additional 117 patients with similar characteristics were treated with the same program with the addition of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) by scarification (FAC-BCG-LMS).
(14) FACS-negative cell fractions were treated with heparitinase, nitrous acid, methanol-chloroform, or EDTA without modifying the number of reacting cells.
(15) FACS sorted Leu-7- cells, cultured for 7 days in the presence of 20% IL-2, acquired the receptors for Leu-7.
(16) Single-parameter FACS analyses demonstrate a diminution in both B cell number and the heterogeneity of membrane Ag expression within the surviving B cell pool after irradiation.
(17) The mean age at the time of surgery was 72.7 years for the ophthalmologists and 66.4 years for the FACS members.
(18) Tumor kinetic parameters were evaluated by TLI and PDP-LI in 22 patients on serial tumor biopsies at diagnosis (TO), after DES (T1), 24 hrs after the first FAC (T2) and at the time of radical surgery (T3).
(19) Both TNF and TNF receptors are detectable on monocyte membranes by FACS analysis, and the levels of each are modulated by treatment with IFN-gamma.
(20) Using FACS analysis, this antigen does not appear to be cell cycle specific, and is exposed to the external cell surface.