(a.) Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
(n.) That which serves to determine; that which causes determination.
(n.) The sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws
(n.) A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(3) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(4) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(5) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(6) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(7) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(8) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(9) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(12) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(13) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(14) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(15) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(16) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(17) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(18) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(19) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(20) The serum concentration of hyaluronan (HYA) was determined in 59 patients with various myeloproliferative disorders, including 33 patients with idiopathic myelofibrosis.
Scalar
Definition:
(n.) In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scalar electrocardiograms contain a great deal of vectorial data.
(2) The cumulative radiation effect (CRE) is one of several empirical scalar descriptions of biological effect which enable corrections to be made for gaps in radiotherapy treatment.
(3) Light scatter from epithelial cells in a slit-scan flow system is modeled using the Fraunhofer condition of scalar diffraction theory.
(4) The mechanical response is shown in terms of displacements, principal strains, and a new measure called the 'mechanical intensity scalar'.
(5) The waveform analysis employed by the program considers the vectorcardiogram as a three dimensional entity rather than as scalar or planar representations.
(6) Scalar couplings from correlated experiments and interproton distances from NOESY experiments at short mixing times have been used to determine glycosidic angles, sugar puckers, and other conformational features.
(7) A positive R wave in lead aVR of the scalar ECG and poor R wave progression in the precordial leads were more common in Group A than in Group B (p less than 0.001 and p less than 0.001, respectively).
(8) There was no statistically significant difference between the means of the measured values of the polarcardiogram and of the corresponding polar components calculated from the three scalar ECG concerning all twenty items, namely spatial magnitude, magnitudes in each plane, each longitude and latitude at the time of the spatial maximum QRS and T vectors, except alpha-longitude.
(9) Some commonly used parametric and non-parametric statistical procedures (such as Students t-test, linear regression, Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests) illustrate the use of scalars.
(10) Two-dimensional scalar correlated spectroscopy (COSY), two-dimensional dipolar correlated spectroscopy (NOESY) and two-dimensional relayed coherance transfer spectroscopy (RCT) experiments were recorded, allowing most resonances arising from the aromatic and methyl-containing residues to be assigned in the spectrum.
(11) The patients were followed up serially by means of scalar electrocardiograms and 24 hour Holter monitoring studies.
(12) Since 1979 the quality control design proposed by the Italian ad hoc Committee has evaluated several lyophilized preparations with scalar receptor content; this permits the identification by linear regression analysis of systematic and non systematic errors.
(13) The 1H-1H scalar coupling observed in both the 2H and 1H NMR spectra was used to assign definitively the resonances of labeled species.
(14) In the 32 postinfarction patients the "P-terminal force" was also measured from lead V1 of the scalar electrocardiogram.
(15) This in turn causes the transverse relaxation rate for the 199Hg spin-coupled methyl protons to be fast due to efficient relaxation by another mechanism, scalar relaxation of the second kind.
(16) We report our experience of the use of a scalar type incision associated with a total skin graft in the treatment of recurrences of Dupuytren's contracture.
(17) From this comparison, we conclude that scalar exchange does not make a significant contribution to the spin-lattice relaxation of YD.
(18) A penalty function for scalar coupling constants has been applied in molecular dynamics simulations as an experimental constraint.
(19) The observation of a splitting of the PCr 31P resonance in aqueous solutions containing D2O has been recently ascribed to proton scalar coupling but was described earlier in an underappreciated report [Kupriyanov et al.
(20) Membrane depolarization observed in the presence of ferricyanide reduction by plasma membranes of whole cells or tissues or the lag period between ferricyanide reduction and medium acidification argue that only scalar protons may be involved.