(n.) The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) Both systolic (p < 0.05) and diastolic (p < 0.01) pressure responses to standing were related to the day-night blood pressure difference and to the standard deviation from mean daytime blood pressure.
(3) The ventilatory assistance was only used at night and resulted in rapid resolution of early morning symptoms and a return to full daytime activity.
(4) We investigated the relationships between sleep variables and daytime pulmonary haemodynamics in 40 COPD patients with daytime arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) between 60-70 mmHg (8-9.3 kPa).
(5) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(6) Diagnostic signs: a physiological inversion of the circadian rhythm may be observed in people who sleep during the daytime and work at night.
(7) Daytime care in a clinical setting today is feasible in a number of situations, e.g.
(8) The main disabling symptom of narcolepsy-cataplexy is shown to be the unrelenting excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) based upon controlled studies of socioeconomic effects and the poor response to treatment.
(9) In the thecal cells, however, mitotic activity in most of the follicles was distinctly higher in the daytime (16.00 h) than at night (22.00 h, i.e., evening).
(10) We conclude that there is a heterogeneous subpopulation of patients with sleep disorders whose symptoms of daytime sleepiness will show no treatment-related improvement in daytime symptoms if they are evaluated only by the MSLT.
(11) The pH of their gastric contents was measured at hourly daytime and two hourly nighttime intervals for 48 hours.
(12) In order to investigate the possible alterations of electrical activity of aged rat pineal glands, electrophysiological recordings in 3- and 18-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were undertaken at both daytime and nighttime.
(13) "It is less about those two presenters and more revising the direction that the station is going in, which will change the sound of the daytime shows," he said.Yates will continue to present the two weekend afternoon shows on his own.
(14) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
(15) The discharges were analysed and quantified in the same way as in daytime but here in relation to the organization of sleep.
(16) A single set of clinic blood pressure measurements is quite sensitive for diagnosing daytime hypertension, although its accuracy, specificity and predictive value are low.
(17) Although I miss the daytime output I'm pleased we protected our peak.
(18) It is the most preponderant finding among patients referred to diagnostic sleep laboratories, particularly among patients complaining of excessive daytime sleepiness.
(19) We feel that the increased use of a wheelchair for daytime and evening sitting was a prominent causative factor of the radial nerve paralysis in the cases reported here, and we suspect that this syndrome is being overlooked.
(20) Sensitizers, who were I recallers, had very low daytime self-confidence scores.
Simulate
Definition:
(a.) Feigned; pretended.
(v. t.) To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(3) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
(4) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(5) The design of a simple dynamic knee simulator is described.
(6) Our results suggest that during simulated ischemia the rate-dependent component of the increase in Ri contributes to the rate-dependence of the conduction slowing.
(7) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(8) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(9) The authors conclude that there is no heart rate-dependent signal loss in healthy persons that simulates valvular dysfunction, thus suggesting that signal intensity change can be used as an indicator for this disease, independent of heart rate.
(10) Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica - an epiphyseal developmental disturbance of the skeleton - is combined with exostose-like, tumor-simulating cartilaginous hypertrophy of bone tissue, mainly located at the epiphyses of the lower extremities and at the tarsal bones.
(11) Femoral angiograms were made in 21 cadavers under simulated clinical conditions, with a pressurized radiopaque casting material.
(12) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(13) It is suggested that this human model of unloading could serve to simulate effects of microgravity on skeletal muscle mass and function because reductions in muscle mass and strength were of similar magnitude to those produced by bed rest.
(14) To test this, a physiologic-based kinetic model was developed to simulate drug concentrations in brain and blood in the presence and absence of CNS metabolism.
(15) Echo delay discrimination by the bat Eptesicus fuscus had been investigated in an experiment with simulated targets jittering in range (Simmons 1979).
(16) Using the rate coefficient values found by SCoPfit, we simulated a voltage-clamp experiment with both models running under their Na(+)-Na+ exchange mode, and we computed the transient currents generated following voltage steps in both depolarizing and hyperpolarizing directions from a basic potential of -40 mV.
(17) By using increased feed-forward gain in a sampled-data control model we simulated the pattern of macrosaccadic oscillation.
(18) Studies on antimicrobial effect kinetics in dynamic models in vitro simulating pharmacokinetic profiles observed in humans markedly promote the problem solution.
(19) The technique was applied to the classification of MUAP's extracted from simulated myoelectric signals.
(20) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.