(1) In the 968 patients, the area under the fasting plasma glucose receiver operating characteristic curve was greater than that under the glucose screening test curve, indicating greater discriminatory value of the former test.
(2) Single neurons in the midbrain tegmentum of rats showed clear discriminatory responses to three tones announcing either food or water or no reinforcement.
(3) The presence of Hollenhorst plaques or retinal artery occlusion did not have any discriminatory diagnostic value since the incidence was similar in both patient groups.
(4) A statistical analysis of the combination assay using CA 125, CA 19-9, tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA), immunosuppressive acidic protein (IAP), ferritin and CEA was carried out by multivariate method (discriminatory analysis) in 45 patients with ovarian carcinoma and 50 healthy subjects.
(5) Examination and documentation of discriminatory practices based on sex points to the areas in which women must direct their demands for equality.
(6) The technique was highly reproducible and discriminatory.
(7) It is concluded that a computerized analysis of sperm swimming speed is a reliable and rapid mode for evaluating semen samples and offers more discriminatory sperm motion characteristics than the RSA.
(8) PyMS is a rapid and relatively inexpensive technique for the investigation of nosocomial S. aureus infection and was more discriminatory than phage typing in this instance.
(9) In this study other biochemical and physical tests were applied to a group of fetuses with deviating BPD growth in order to improve the discriminatory rate between infants subsequently born AGA or SGA.
(10) The fear, sinking to bottom, lack of schooling and non discriminatory pattern in treated fish were because of neurodepression.
(11) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(12) While there were differences in the amide absorption band ratios, these were difficult to relate to the individualization of the hair samples and did not appear to have a sufficient discriminatory value for routine forensic use.
(13) The discriminatory efficacy of one single progesterone determination was independent of the actual HCG level and serial determinations of progesterone did not increase the discriminatory power.
(14) What is worrying is that they are giving me evidence that they are not being treated like normal EU members, that they have to sign specific contracts if they want to continue with new work.” She said this was discriminatory under EU law.
(15) It is impossible to see how a regulator operating under rules imposed by politicians, and enforced by draconian and discriminatory provisions for damages and costs in civil cases, could be said to be either voluntary or independent."
(16) There is no discriminatory role in the immunologic detection of HLA-DR for differential diagnosis of salivary gland tumors.
(17) Stepwise linear discriminant analysis of the data from the first 200 patients identified a significant (p less than 0.001) discriminatory combination.
(18) They must change any discriminatory laws and promote equality and non-violent behaviours.
(19) In this investigation no single factor was discriminatory and it was not possible to predict with any degree of certainty those kidneys liable to delayed function or to non-function.
(20) US supreme court justices strongly challenged a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriages as discriminatory, motivated by prejudice and diminishing the power of individual states to regulate marriage.
Preferential
Definition:
(a.) Giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.
Example Sentences:
(1) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(2) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
(3) Cyclosporine is a fungal endecapeptide of novel chemical structure that causes preferential inhibition of T helper cells.
(4) The results are discussed in terms of a two-site model in which separate, but interacting, regions exist on the enzyme to accommodate the adenosine and nicotinamide moieties of NAD, and a single-site model in which the adenosine part of the molecule is bound preferentially and this interacts with the nicotinamide fraction.
(5) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
(6) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(7) Furthermore it is this small compartment that is preferentially radioactively labelled during short-term incubations with radioactively labelled precursors.
(8) Early in the infection, the 5'-most site, L1, is used preferentially, whereas late in infection, all sites are used equivalently.
(9) If these is the case the Ir gene (genes) would be the Keystone for maintaining the preferential associations of some pseudoalleles in some haplotypes.
(10) Jacalin preferentially bound to alpha-linked non-reducing D-galactose.
(11) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
(12) The chiral intercalators, at micromolar concentrations, inhibit the reaction of EcoRI, but for each enantiomeric pair it is the lambda enantiomer, which binds only poorly to a B-DNA helix, that inhibits EcoRI preferentially.
(13) It was found that the use of a pH 9.6 buffer during the coating of ELISA plates led to the dissociation of virions into subunits which bound preferentially to the solid phase.
(14) We speculate that the preferential rupture of the H2B-H4 contact is of physiological significance.
(15) Glial siphoning can distribute the potassium preferentially toward the blood vessels in the area, leading to an elevation in potassium concentration in the ECF surrounding the vascular smooth muscle of the arterioles.
(16) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(17) SPE A preferentially activated T cells expressing V beta 8 but not V beta 3, 6, or 11, while SPEs B and C preferentially stimulated T cells which did not express any of the tested V beta s.
(18) Simultaneous metabolic studies of human normal fibrinogen and asialofibrinogen in rabbits revealed only a modest decrease in the half-life of the asialoprotein compared to the intact protein, with no preferential uptake of the asialo-derivative by the liver.
(19) When fermented in preferential media it produces geldanamycin, nigericin, nocardamine, and a libanamycin-like activity.
(20) Rule-abiding parents can get a monthly stipend, extra pension benefits when they are older, preferential hospital treatment, first choice for government jobs, extra land allowances and, in some case, free homes and a tonne of free water a month.