What's the difference between devastavit and misapplication?
Devastavit
Definition:
(n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
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Misapplication
Definition:
(n.) A wrong application.
Example Sentences:
(1) A major concern of cholesterol-lowering diets is the misapplication of nutritional guidelines.
(2) Because the incidence of open neural tube defects is lower for blacks than for others, excessive false positive results for blacks (estimated to be 8817 to 28,215 cases annually) would be a pernicious misapplication of maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein screening.
(3) Examples of incidents that have signaled a problem and resulting research projects are: 1) anaphylactic cardiovascular response to red imported fire ant venom (statewide morbidity survey); (2) unexplained contact dermatitis in tomato harvesters and floral designers (immunodermatologic study and statewide survey of florists); (3) concerns over two unexplained cancer deaths at an experimental agricultural research station (farmer's mortality study); (4) a household outbreak of organophosphate poisoning (statewide hospital morbidity survey); and (5) a woman in early pregnancy exposed to misapplication of chlordane in her house (literature review and update on trends in U.S. birth defects).
(4) The present paper addressed the continued misinterpretation and misapplication of linear discriminant function analysis in neuropsychological research.
(5) Any other insertion of a ventilating tube implies abuse, either through error in diagnosis or deliberate misapplication.
(6) The adverse effects of the misapplication of these potent drugs in herpetic keratitis, in terms of an increase in the rate of complications and in the severity and morbidity of the disease, should be emphasized again.
(7) Several misunderstandings and misapplications of Disengagement Theory are discussed, including the erroneous idea that disengaged people necessarily are either higher or lower in morale than others, and the unenlightening controversy over "activity versus disengagement."
(8) We evaluated the behavioral, health perception, and physical health correlates of a residential pesticide misapplication on 54 individuals and identified factors differentially related to various levels of distress.
(9) Unless microscopic examination is routinely included, half of all microbiological information rendered on sputum specimens is meaningless and subject to dangerous misapplication.
(10) Recognition of this simple principle and careful examination of the 12-lead electrocardiogram may help to prevent the misapplication of pharmacotherapy in the vast majority of these patients.
(11) A limitation of these studies comes in the misunderstanding and misapplication of the tests used to analyze these events.
(12) The number and frequency of test misapplications support the view that additional professional training in the use of child maltreatment screening instruments is needed.
(13) Hopefully, this will prevent the misapplication of a useful analytical tool and also serve as an incentive to provoke contributions to this somewhat neglected technology.
(14) The lethal effects of the misapplication of this agent on the nervous system are discussed.
(15) In 1.2 per cent (4) the fault lay with coding inaccuracies or misapplication of coding rules in failing to select the underlying cause in a correct sequence of clinical events.
(16) The risk of toxicity from misapplication of TAC is heightened because TAC is most effective and therefore most widely used on pediatric facial and scalp lacerations.
(17) Recommendations are offered for the potential applications and misapplications in research and clinical practice.
(18) Rare earth technology has become the standard in radiographic imaging, but misapplication and insufficient comprehension of the variables of usage create practical problems.
(19) The possible misapplication of procedures by conference participants, whose only exposure to behavioral methods has been at these workshops is viewed as a potentially serious ethical issue.
(20) This paper presents a brief history of the development of these revised secondary standards, discusses their technical bases, provides a comparison of them, and discusses their limitations and potential misapplication.