(n.) The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence, the light; sunshine.
(n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day, below.
(n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work.
(n.) A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
(n.) (Preceded by the) Some day in particular, as some day of contest, some anniversary, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(4) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(5) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(6) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(7) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(8) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(10) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(11) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(13) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
(14) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(15) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(16) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(17) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(18) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(19) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
Prorate
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only children with normal hearing and a prorated Full Scale IQ of at least 80 (WISC-R) were considered.
(2) The advantages of regression-based estimates of full-length IQ over those derived from conventional prorating are discussed.
(3) Differences in mean prorated numbers of colds per year and durations of illness were 0.09 plus or minus 0.06 (plus or minus 1 standard error) and 0.11 plus or minus 0.24, respectively, favoring ascorbic acid over the placebo.
(4) If a regularly administered WISC-R subtest cannot be administered properly or is invalidated, the manual suggests that a supplementary subtest, either Digit Span or Mazes, can serve as a substitute, but perhaps prorating the sum of scaled scores on the remaining subtests would be better.
(5) When faced with a choice, clinicians should attach greater validity to prorated estimates of a child's WISC--R Verbal IQ.
(6) Analysis indicated that the use of Digit Span as a substitute for the regularly administered Verbal subtests was inferior to the use of the comparable proration method.
(7) IAG has offered to give up some London airport slots as well as so-called prorate agreements that let airlines carry rivals’ passengers on connecting flights.
(8) Similar correlations for the total group of 10 to 16 year olds (N = 22) were performed (prorating the steady state plasma levels of the slow metabolizers), and these too were highly significant.
(9) Correlations of learning scores on the Aronson Shopping List with WAIS or WAIS--R subtests and prorated IQs were significant.
(10) Proration consistently resulted in higher validities (i.e., correlations between scores on the variant Verbal, Performance, or Full Scale and scores on the corresponding original scale), whereas substitution almost as consistently resulted in higher reliabilities, but in both cases the differences were small.
(11) If Rodriguez accepts Major League Baseball's ruling he not only loses a prorated portion of his considerable salary, it also puts his entire career in jeopardy.
(12) It was found that: (1) the TPT 10 was inadequate for severe damage; (2) the TPT 6 can be used with severe impairment; (3) a method of prorating blocks into time was developed; (4) the TPT 10 and TPT 6 are strongly correlated; (5) there were no order effects when both boards were given; (6) both boards significantly separated controls from brain-damaged subjects; (7) criteria for substitution of the TPT 6 were established; and (8) comparable scales were established for both boards so that an examiner can substitute either TPT for the other.
(13) The amount of vaccine preventable disease in personnel assigned to South Korea was similar to that in occupationally blood-exposed employees (5.5 vs. 5.2 hospitalized cases per 1,000 vaccinees) after prorating exposure to risk based on average number of days of exposure to risk over three years.
(14) Health care costs, morbidity costs, and nonhealth-sector costs are prorated from national studies to the State or locality.
(15) A prorated Performance IQ might be the least depressed measure of potential among these children.
(16) Prorated to all 461 300 West German acute hospital beds, 85,000 beds or 26.6 million patient days per year are affected by inappropriate use.
(17) This study investigated the merits of substituting the Digit Span subtest for an invalid Verbal Scale subtest versus a proration method in calculating WISC--R Verbal and Full Scale IQ.
(18) The study found that the short form did not have significantly lower concurrent validity than the original form; had only slightly lower internal consistency; and had a mean and a standard deviation close enough to those of the original form to allow prorating of short-form scores for interpretation with original form norms.
(19) Although relatively few cases of misclassification occurred for either method in relation to Full Scale IQ, the rate of Verbal IQ misclassification by the Digit Span substitution method was significantly greater than with use of its proration.
(20) It will prorate the sum of the Verbal or Performance scaled scores when less than the full number of subtests are administered.