(n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
(2) The device consists of a motor-driven shaft which moves the record past a fixed cursor, and an electronic counter which records the movements of the shaft, thereby providing a cumulative tally of the distance of the current position of the cursor from some arbitrary origin on the record.
(3) By simply adjusting a linear cursor, which is parallel to the base line, to the highest and the lowest levels of the lesion, the sagittal image with the lesion clearly depicted is automatically reconstructed.
(4) The cursor was then blanked, with subjects being required to place the now invisible cursor over a target.
(5) Mu rhythm amplitude was assessed by on-line frequency analysis and translated into cursor movement: larger amplitudes moved the cursor up and smaller amplitudes moved it down.
(6) Tracking efficiency was far below that observed for upper articulator control of the cursor.
(7) In the parasternal four-chamber view, the cursor was set so as to cross obliquely the right ventricular inflow tract just below the tricuspid valve and the left atrium, just above the mitral valve.
(8) They were asked to exert forces continuously to draw lemniscates (figure eights) in specified or self-chosen planes and in the presence or absence of a three-dimensional visual feedback cursor and a visual template.
(9) The instantaneous force exerted by the subjects on the manipulandum was shown on the disk in the form of a feedback cursor.
(10) The animals were required to move a cursor from the start box to one of four target boxes by movement of the manipulandum.
(11) Control of fine angular movements of the head and of the distal phalanx of the right thumb were compared by measuring subjects' accuracy in guiding a cursor through a path on a computer screen by turning the head or moving the thumb.
(12) The glottal waveforms measured by sonic-sensing pen tracing, cursor outlining, a photocell technique, and television camera scanning are presented and compared with the conventional polar planimeter method.
(13) The Doppler cursor can be correctly aligned in the jet core and allows accurate measures, and the display of spectral analysis is better with faster computers.
(14) Alternative explanations for the right hand tracking results, and for the nonsignificant trend towards a laterality effect (cursor left field-right hemisphere) for left hand tracking, were discussed.
(15) Monkeys aligned a cursor bar with high-contrast square-wave gratings presented in a variety of orientations.
(16) This study examined a visual analog of the PAT in which subjects matched the vertical position of a continually moving horizontal line (target) presented on one side of their point of fixation, with a second line (cursor) presented on the other side of their fixation point.
(17) Refinements in training procedures and in the distribution-based method used to translate mu rhythm amplitudes into cursor movements should further improve this 1-dimensional control.
(18) Vesicle aggregation (a necessary pre-cursor to membrane fusion) and subsequent membrane destabilization (an essential component of fusion) were examined by freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
(19) Morphometry was done on visually normal, polygonal intermediate cells without signs of human papilloma virus infection, with a graphic tablet and cursor under 40x oil immersion, and data were handled by microcomputer.
(20) We have performed comparative studies of the QWERTY keybord, cursor control keys, mouse and graphics tablet for data entry in two intensive therapy unit (ITU) environments.
Prompter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.
(n.) One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
Example Sentences:
(1) In particular, dip-beta-CD causes a stronger and prompter coronary and carotid vasodilatation in dogs, at doses which weakly influence the systemic arterial pressure and the heart rate.
(2) Whole pancreas grafts with enteric diversion yielded prompter and higher insulin secretion but the incidence of surgical complications was increased.
(3) The tones were emotional memory prompters initiating some process that mediated transfer between drug states.
(4) Nutritional repletion by means of TPN resulted in a return to normal or supranormal serum concentrations of IgG, IgM, and C3, and the primary immune response to SRVC was prompter and higher.
(5) After glipidide the effect on blood glucose was prompter and Immuno Reactive Insulin (IRI) levels higher.
(6) Psychological assessment showed a prompter recovery of visual attentiveness and sensorimotor performance in the S-(+)-ketamine group.
(7) Provocative tests showed higher and prompter insulin secretion in patients with whole-organ grafts.
(8) Following pilot research which suggested that a traffic sign reading "Fasten Safety Belt" posted at a parking lot exit was effective in producing small increases in safety belt use, Study I demonstrated the superiority of having human prompters display such signs compared to simply posting the signs.
(9) Kinetically, the action of IFN gamma is prompter and longer lasting than that of IFN beta.
(10) Study II replicated the findings of Study I and found that posted signs became more effective in prompting safety belt use if simple posting was preceded by a period involving human prompters who displayed the signs.
(11) Although the evidence is inconclusive, patients registered with lower list size general practitioners consulted more and received prompter attention.
(12) After Rice spoke, Fox News confirmed that she delivered the speech without a prompter.
(13) He gracefully ad-libbed, and the prompter showed in real time the exact degree to which his rhetoric soared without a net.
(14) Although cyclosporine alone was effective, the addition of prednisone resulted in prompter and fuller haematologic improvement.
(15) Intracisternal administration of hypertonic NaCl produced much prompter pressor and tachycardic responses than did administration via the other two routes.
(16) It is suggested that family planning messages aimed at and elicited by more "elite" classes may have a greater impact on fertility behavior than message from prompters with a socioeconomic background similar to the clients', which tend to concentrate on the harsher day-to-day realities of poverty.
(17) Indeed, NMR spectroscopy revealed a prompter, greater and durable rephosphorylation of creatine together with a simultaneous more rapid and furthermore sharp drop in Pi content in DZ-treated hearts.
(18) Both drugs reduced chronic atrophic gastritis (with a trend in favour of omeprazole), while omeprazole showed a prompter activity on the components of acute inflammation.
(19) He goes from notes, to prompter, to listening to the producer in his ear, in an effort to somehow figure out just exactly what the issue is here – and, hoping against hope, not to be humiliated by it.
(20) Ultrasonic imaging allowed for more security while waiting, more confidence with midforceps application, or a prompter decision for cesarean section, depending on the head position.