(n.) Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) The quantities or relations which are assumed to be given in any problem.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of the datum that the level of Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein (Zn alpha 2gp) in human seminal plasma was about 6-times higher than that in adult serum, Zn alpha 2gp was purified from fresh human seminal plasma approx.
(2) This datum was more evident when the percentage of B cells was simultaneously determined in CSF and blood.
(3) Since neither parent showed signs of syringomyelia, this is considered to be a datum substantiating the dysembryogenetic theory of the syringomyelia syndrome.
(4) The causes of the osteoarthritis were not considered, but our study pointed out standing position as favourite datum.
(5) Datum point of the pulmonary I-washout curve was the mean end-tidal I concentration obtained 15 min before terminating I (cIAW).
(6) The results may be used as the "datum point" in assessment of the efficacy of newly-developed antitumor drugs.
(7) Based on these results, the two above mentioned points were designated as the datum points to be used when estimating the form of pulp cavities.
(8) Because of these, we conclude that, although the existence of calcifications is a meaningful datum, there are uncalcified retinoblastomas and calcifications in entities other than retinoblastoma.
(9) The disposable datums in France are schematicly described.
(10) The rate of fluorescence recovery due to transport of unbleached fluorophores into the observation region is the primary experimental datum.
(11) After 4 months from treatment a net improvement was observed in the clinical parameters studied: sputum (volume and purulence), cough and dyspnoea, but the most interesting datum was the total absence of recurrent episodes of infection, associated to the reduction in quantity of antibiotics, mucolytics and number of days of illness and with noticeable improvement in the quality of life of the patients.
(12) Such aberrant and psychotic behaviors provide a datum for curricula and clinical services.
(13) Those chromatographic methods which quantify several different cephalosporins are not desirable for pharmacokinetic datum interpretation, since accuracy and precision are usually compromised in order that many different drugs may be quantified in a single analysis.
(14) The amplified EMG signals were digitized using a sampling frequency of 50 samples per second, and numerical data was stored immediately on the hard disk (1 datum = 1 byte).
(15) ILBM is calculated from simple morphological datums (H = height and C = wrist circonference).
(16) The cumulative sum procedure introduced by Hurst (1950) involves subtraction of a control reference level from a series of datum points and adding the differences consecutively.
(17) Neither pyuria, microscopic bacteriuria, nor any single subjective or objective datum definitively predicted cystitis at the initial visit.
(18) Thus, for datum analysis, patients were separated into three ceftazidime dosage groups (denoted as range of milligrams per kilogram per dose): group 1, 22 to 44.5; group 2, 46.3 to 56.6; and group 3, 66.7 to 80.6.
(19) The mean deviation of the individual datum points from the overall mean values was also calculated for each study.
(20) This datum, when taken with the fact that hypoxanthine is never found to be a significant extent within the vesicles, suggests that the phosphorolytic cleavage of inosine occurs as a group translocation during the transport itself, so that hypoxanthine is released to the surrounding medium while the ribose-1-P accumulates intravesicularly.
Information
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.
(v. t.) News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.
(v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(5) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
(10) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
(11) 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".
(12) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
(13) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(14) Current information suggests that arachidonic acid metabolites are involved in the development of cholecystitis.
(15) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
(16) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(17) Much information has accumulated on the isolation and characterization of a heterogeneous group of molecules that inhibit one or more of the bioactivities of interleukin 1.
(18) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
(19) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
(20) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.