(n.) The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All persons were sent a 12-page questionnaire dealing with matters of health, employment, social support, demography, medical economics, expressed needs, and relationship with the rehabilitation agency.
(2) Two competing models of age demography were tested.
(3) Patients in both groups were of comparable demography.
(4) Without a large number of stably integrated neighbourhoods, without an influx of new immigrants, without a substantial drop in violent crime and without any trust between the police and the community, the new chapter of urban demography and racial conflict in the northwest suburbs of St Louis looks a lot like the old chapter in the city itself.
(5) The increased attention in US medicine to medical ethics reflects in large part the "new" demography of a growing elderly population and the conflict of whether decisions regarding medical care should be based on cost-effectiveness or "human-effectiveness."
(6) The method is applied to the HIV epidemic among IV drug users in the Latium region of Italy, using available data on the length of the incubation period before the onset of AIDS, on the infectivity of infected individuals during that period, and on the demography of drug users.
(7) The demand for care at home is set to grow rapidly – changing patterns of disease and demography will see more us with long-term conditions and frailty in older age.
(8) On the other hand, very little is known about the epidemiology and demography odontogenic tumours.
(9) In comparing these drugs, the following issues are important: pathophysiology, patient demography, mechanism of drug action, long-term efficacy, and metabolic effects.
(10) These children were selected from a total of 242,596 proportionally chosen with respect to demography of each of the twelve regions in the area with weight, height and bicipital, tricipital, subscapular and abdominal skin folds being measured.
(11) A unified approach is developed for the evolutionary structure of mammalian life histories; it blends together three basic components (individual growth or production rate as a function of body size, natural selection on age of maturity, and stable demography) to predict both the powers and the intercepts of the scaling allometry of life history variables to adult size.
(12) The treatment groups appeared identical in terms of patient demography, underlying disease and other risk factors, though patients with a clinical site of infection responded more slowly than those without.
(13) This article is a comprehensive review of the demography, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention of near-drowning, an accident that affects approximately 6,000 to 7,000 Americans per year.
(14) Thirty healthy, drinking young adult sons of alcoholics were matched with 30 sons of nonalcoholics on demography, drug use, and alcohol use histories.
(15) The institutions actually performing carotid endarterectomies differ from the clinical trials in their demography and perioperative mortality rates.
(16) (1) The age-adjusted gastric cancer mortality rate (the demography of Japan in 1965 was used for the standard population) began to decline in 1968, and the mean mortality rates were 60.5 per 100,000 population in 1958-1967 and 38.6 in 1981, showing 21.9 decrease in 14 years in Niigata Prefecture.
(17) Women co-infected with C. trachomatis were similar to those with gonococcal infection alone in terms of demography, type of sexual contact, previous sexually transmitted disease, genitourinary symptoms, and clinical signs.
(18) AIDS and HIV-1 infection may have a significant impact not only on public health, but also on the demography and socioeconomic conditions of some developing countries.
(19) A review of the profession's stand at that time, and changes in demography of the elderly population since then, suggests that the position of the profession arrived at in the 1960's needs to be reexamined.
(20) This paper uses stochastic demography to analyze the fluctuating population structure produced by environmental uncertainty.
Topography
Definition:
(n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
(2) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(3) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).
(4) These topographies enabled us to observe serial changes in epileptic discharge dynamically by 1 msec.
(5) The topography of the expression on the trophectoderm is striking and novel.
(6) Nevertheless, a wide clinical spectrum was found varying from pictures correlating with the topography and extent of the MRI-detected anomaly to conditions indicating wider cerebral involvement.
(7) Twenty monoclonal antibodies (MAb) against human growth hormone (hGH) were used to establish the antigenic topography of this protein.
(8) To investigate the topography of the clear zone, we performed four- and eight-incision radial keratotomy in eight cadaver eyes.
(9) We have mapped cochlear nerve terminations in the cochlear nucleus with DiI and, using three-dimensional reconstructions, have demonstrated the topography and geometry of the cochlear input.
(10) The classification, when considered together with improved angiographic technique and microsurgery, allows exact preoperative and peroperative definition of topography which in turn enables the avoidance of injury to functionally important typical and atypical central branches of the posterior cerebral artery.
(11) This study showed that digital computerised tomography indicates the extent and topography of the necrosis and provides true histo-radiological sections.
(12) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy enabled the topography to be established more precisely including the degree of compression (in 14 cases) and showed evidence of associated tracheomalacia in 7 cases.
(13) Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequences from HKB3 and MEB3 reveals a high degree of sequence homology (71%) and conservation of the overall topography of the transmembrane domain.
(14) The proximal topography of the left common carotid artery ostium is a useful sign in the diagnosis of this kind of abnormality.
(15) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
(16) Afferents to the nucleus accumbens have been studied with the retrograde transport of unconjugated wheatgerm agglutinin as detected by immunohistochemistry using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method, in order to define precisely afferent topography from the cortex, thalamus, midbrain and amygdala.
(17) The topographies of key-pressing and magazine behavior differed; the food tray was not illuminated.
(18) The particularities of the topography and the histological structure of the wall are presented and the diagnostical delimination compared with cysts of other pathogenesis are discussed.
(19) Our computer-based corneal topography analysis system was used to study the keratoscope photographs (keratograms) from two patients with classic pellucid marginal degeneration and a third patient with no inferior corneal thinning, whose keratoscope mire pattern was suggestive of the condition.
(20) These differ in RNA contents, in the distribution pattern of RNA in the cytoplasm, in the intensity of the Feulgen reaction and the topography of DNA in the nucleus, and in the contents and distribution of both the nucleic acids in the kinetoplast.