(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.
Vernier
Definition:
(n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first method consisted of using a vernier caliper by which direct measurements (Dv) of the distances were recorded.
(2) The tests are resistant to the effects of opacities because they utilize a localization task (vernier acuity) rather than a resolution task.
(3) We report that the ability to detect a small vernier offset (less than 5 sec of arc in many individuals) between two small spots of light separated by a narrow gap can be disrupted by presenting additional targets in close proximity to the vernier stimulus.
(4) This result implies that the human visual system processes vernier offsets in parallel.
(5) Vernier acuity and vernier bias were examined in persons aged 20 to 79 years using a method of adjustments.
(6) Previous experiments that have compared monocular vernier acuity in amblyopic, monocularly blind, and normal binocular subjects have been confined to the center of the retina.
(7) Sensitivity to sinusoidal curvature (periodic vernier acuity) was measured by the method of adjustment as a function of spatial frequency of the curvature.2.
(8) Almost all increases in thresholds with eccentricity were explained by the theory in five of these tasks, which included the two-dot vernier hyperacuity test, the measurement of visual acuities with gratings, the Snellen E test, and two acuity tests that required either separation between dots or discrimination between two mirror-symmetric forms.
(9) The previously reported contrast dependence of vernier acuity was confirmed, but contrast had a much smaller effect upon interval acuity.
(10) In the past 10 years much has been learned about the development of two hyperacuities, namely, vernier acuity and stereoacuity.
(11) The developmental function for vernier acuity is discussed in relation to physiologic development of the kitten visual system and is related to published data on the development of stereoacuity and spatial resolution in the same species.
(12) Although stereoacuity and vernier acuity both yield comparable thresholds well below the eye's resolution limit, the neural circuits for these two classes of visual responses do not process the signals in an identical manner.
(13) Near birth, grating acuity is relatively more mature than vernier acuity.
(14) All vernier results, both for better and amblyopic eye, were within one line of Snellen acuity.
(15) Neither the variation in retinal eccentricity nor changing the paradigm to a vernier acuity task altered the basic pattern of results.
(16) Subjects showed little improvement in OC vernier acuity, even after 50,000 trials.
(17) In a crossover comparison with standard Vernier-type calipers, the Tumorimeter was significantly more accurate than bidimensional caliper determinations (less than or equal to 5% surface area error vs a 21-28% overestimate error for calipers).
(18) Vernier thresholds for all spatial frequencies are related to contrast by a power law with exponents of approximately -0.8.
(19) The values obtained by image analysis and by measurement with vernier calliper are identical and similar to the data of the literature.
(20) Differences between OC and SC vernier acuities persisted over a wide range of interstimulus spacings, widths, and contrasts.