(n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
(n.) Manifestation; expression; sign.
(n.) In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
(n.) Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
(n.) Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
(n.) Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
(n.) The purport; the sum and substance.
(n.) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
(n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
(v. t.) To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
(v. t.) To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(3) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(4) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(5) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(6) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(7) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(8) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(9) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(10) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(11) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(12) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(13) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(14) Omission of K(+), Ca(++) or Mg(++) had no effect on uptake.
(15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(16) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(17) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(18) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(19) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(20) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
Ineffective
Definition:
(a.) Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal.
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) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(3) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(4) The excitatory effect of L-glutamate on PGCL sympathoexcitatory neurons was blocked by iontophoretic applications of kynurenic acid, whereas identical amounts of 8-OH kynurenic acid were ineffective.
(5) EGTA was ineffective in removing calmodulin from particulate preparations, but treatment with the tervalent metal ion La3+ resulted in a loss of up to 98% of calmodulin activity from these preparations.
(6) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
(7) Anti-histamine and anti-serotonin drugs, as well as substances capable of blocking synthesis of prostaglandins or activation of the kinin system, and also atropine, were ineffective in reducing the responses to TsTX or electrical stimuli.
(8) Treatment was ineffective and stopped in 12 cases (24.5%); the inefficacy was primary in 6 and tachyphylactic in the other 6.
(9) The delirium improved when the treatment was restored, whereas neuroleptics proved ineffective.
(10) The CI treatment induced almost full protection against these behavioral effects of saline stress but DS treatment was ineffective.
(11) In addition, it has excellent antibacterial activity against indole-positive Proteus strains against which conventional Cephalosporins are ineffective.
(12) Multimeric analysis of von Willebrand factor is necessary to diagnose von Willebrand's disease type II, in which DDAVP infusions should not be given since they are ineffective or may cause thrombocytopenia.
(13) It is concluded that under conditions in which other calcium release mechanisms operate well, InsP3 is relatively ineffective at releasing calcium from the SR in amounts sufficient to induce contraction.
(14) Hexa- and octasaccharides induced a slight increase in the number of acrosome reacted spermatozoa and disaccharides were ineffective.
(15) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(16) Preemployment screening methods have been ineffective in predicting those at risk, and in curbing the impact of back problems in industry.
(17) On siratro, CIAT899 induced nodules that were ineffective in acetylene reduction, whereas the EPS-deficient mutants induced effective nodules.
(18) Oligo- or polyribonucleotides are relatively ineffective initiators of polydeoxynucleotide polymerization.
(19) The H1-selective agonist, 2-(2-aminoethyl)thiazole was ineffective at doses 100 times greater than those of histamine.
(20) Anxiety disorders are no longer regarded as consequences of conflicts and ineffective defences or as concomitants of other psychiatric disorders but rather as disorders of their own.