(n.) The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.
(n.) Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) The present study deals with 832 ossicular chain reconstruction procedures performed in 655 patients from January 1975 to December 1985.
(3) An analysis of 249 cases of neontal tetanus admitted to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, between January 1971 and December 1974, has been presented.
(4) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(5) Hatching commenced in early October (after 23 wk), when air and water temperatures decreased to 20 and 15 degrees C, respectively, and continued until mid-December (32 wk) in the field.
(6) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(7) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(8) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(9) The management results in 244 patients admitted to one institution within 3 days of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) from January, 1979, to December, 1985, were analyzed with respect to the timing of surgical intervention.
(10) In the Netherlands, researchers studied the medical records of and followed-up on 151 women of advanced maternal age (at least 36 years old) who underwent amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and elected to terminate the pregnancy due to an abnormal genetic finding (105 and 46 women, respectively) at Academic Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt between January 1980 and December 1989.
(11) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(12) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(13) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(14) The musical would begin previews in Chicago on December 21, and move to Broadway in February.
(15) One hundred thirty-two of 397 consecutive percutaneous fine needle aspirations done at the University of Virginia between January, 1979, and December, 1984, for pulmonary lesions showed no evidence of cancer on cytological examination.
(16) "At first, after the [anti-Putin] protests started in December, the authorities got scared that they had lost control," Polozov said.
(17) Seven attempts were made between September and December 1978 at the Gollwitzer-Meier Institute of Cardiology; three dilatations were unsuccessful, two were moderately successful and two highly successful.
(18) pipiens disappeared in larval habitats by December but An.
(19) After operation, she was treated in the department of internal medicine for postoperative chemotherapy (TCMP-therapy 1 kur) and discharged in December, 1988.
(20) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
Yule
Definition:
(n.) Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.
Example Sentences:
(1) An overdetermined set of Yule-Walker equations was created to determine the autoregressive (AR) parameters of the original data with the model order established by the singular value decomposition.
(2) Kappa values and their 95% confidence intervals, and Yule's Y values are reported.
(3) The statistical method here employed, which permitted the analysis of the effects of birth order on the prevalence of schizophrenia, was that of Greenwood-Yule.
(4) Since in Brazil no population data are available, the Greenwood-Yule method seems useful and valid for the purpose, with the aid provided by Halperin's chi square modification.
(5) David Bowie: five of his best North American concerts Read more Bowie first travelled to New York in 1970, and though he saw the Velvet Underground perform, it was with Doug Yule fronting them rather than Lou Reed (Bowie spoke to Yule for an hour thinking that he was Reed).
(6) An essential aspect of the corresponding double barrier quantal model is its nonstationarity, resulting from combined application of binomial and Yule-Furry statistics.
(7) Lou Reed Remembered, produced and directed by Chris Rodley, features contributions by Boy George, Blondie's Debbie Harry, Thurston Moore and Velvet Underground members Moe Tucker and Doug Yule.
(8) A number of differences between the findings of Rutter and Yule and the present results were noted.
(9) These children's profiles of scores on the BAS were also entered into a cluster analysis which provided some confirmation of the validity of the Rutter & Yule classification.
(10) It is shown that the steady-state probability distribution of immunoglobulin variable-region frequencies is the Yule distribution.
(11) Reliability data will be presented which show sufficiently high kappa and Yule coefficients for a selected set of diagnostic criteria for depressive, manic and psychotic disorders.
(12) Cluster analysis using Yule's similarity coefficient produced a series of near neighbours which, when combined with relevant history details produced four diagnostic groupings which seem to have clinical relevance to referrals to an adolescent psychiatric clinic.
(13) The degree of agreement was calculated in the different sections of the instrument by Pearson's product-moment correlation, Kappa statistic and Yule's "Y" coefficient.
(14) By the Greenwood-Yule analysis, a small deficit of cases in the earlier birth order in the tuberculoid form was observed.
(15) The Yule measurement number (.54) indicated a medium stochastical link.
(16) A very high degree of association (0.88) has been found between DNA marker MetH and CF (as measured by the Yule's association coefficient) in our population.
(17) A method based on Yule's Q coefficient describing the degree of association between two dichotomous variables was applied.
(18) In 1975 Rutter and Yule distinguished between 'specific reading retardation' and 'general reading backwardness'.
(19) Both experiments yielded the same result: The dependency between the first and second tests, indexed by Yule's Q statistic, was greater for recognition and cued recall than it was for recognition and fragment completion.
(20) Our results indicate that both the AR(Yule-Walker) and ARMA(singular value decomposition) models of orders (8) and (4,4), respectively, show good agreement with the theoretical spectrum, and yield estimates with variances considerably less than the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).