(a.) Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
(n.) One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
(2) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
(3) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(4) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(5) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
(6) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(7) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(8) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(9) Oligoclonal bands were not detected in any of the sera or CSF.
(10) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
(11) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(12) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
(13) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(14) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(15) Mycobacterial DNA was detected in 11 of the 22 biopsies.
(16) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(17) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(18) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(19) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(20) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
Inspector
Definition:
(n.) One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We understand that the matter is currently under review by the inspector general," Carney said.
(2) And all agencies must also now implement the wider recommendations made in the Inspectors' report.
(3) The inspectors were also told that the day before their August inspection a patient with a known heart problem had a cardiac arrest in a corridor while waiting for a first clinical assessment.
(4) "The regime has shown it can facilitate access for OPCW inspectors – it needs to show the same commitment to ensuring humanitarian aid reaches those in need.
(5) One difficulty is that UN weapons inspectors are testing for the use of chemical weapons, but are making no judgment on who deployed them.
(6) Research published yesterday by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Home Office Inspectorates estimates that of the 50,000 rapes thought to occur each year, between 75% and 95% are never reported.
(7) Brandis said nothing in the bill would stop Asio whistleblowers from reporting suspected wrongdoing to the inspector general of intelligence and security.
(8) In addition, each ride has specific risk assessments to ensure that these processes are current.” He added: “As well as the daily assessment and testing, all rides are verified regularly by independent inspectors in compliance with the HSE guidelines for safe operation.
(9) The inspector general had no obligation to inform the White House until publication of the audit was imminent, Carney said, adding that the White House had been told in April.
(10) During the inspection, staff shortages meant "an emergency core day" was to be imposed at Pentonville from October leading to even further reductions in inmates' time out of their cells and leaving some prisoners with no access to purposeful activity or education, the chief inspector said.
(11) Temporary Detective chief inspector, Police Service of Northern Ireland.
(12) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
(13) A report issued last Friday by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary revealed that only 2% of police staff across 37 forces had been trained in investigating cybercrime.
(14) The Russians accepted the need for UN weapons inspectors to visit Syria to check on western claims that Assad has used chemical weapons .
(15) Meanwhile, an increase in labour inspectors has led to existing laws prohibiting the confiscation of passports being better enforced.
(16) The chief inspector says, "The issue is not how many prisoners can be squeezed into the available cells.
(17) The Syrian government has acknowledged it agreed with Russia that it would sign the 1993 chemical weapons convention, deliver a full declaration of its arsenal and its locations, and provide access to UN, Russian and other inspectors.
(18) Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, is expected to say on Wednesday that he was not consulted by education secretary Michael Gove over his decision to dismiss Ofsted chair Lady Morgan .
(19) Key strongly rejects claims he was briefed on the matter and it is now the subject of an inquiry by the spy watchdog, the inspector general of intelligence and security.
(20) "Good teaching is absolutely essential to the provision of a good education, and quite simply too much of what our inspectors saw this year was not good quality."