(a.) Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment.
(n.) That which produces a given effect; a cause.
(n.) One who is capable of active service.
(n.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe.
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).
Noneffective
Definition:
(a.) Not effective.
(a.) Not fit or available for duty.
Example Sentences:
(1) This fact, the limited applicability of the information obtained from animal experiments, and the further fact that even test results obtained in human subjects cannot be applied on a world-wide basis, exhort us to take care not to subscribe to an all-too apodictic classification of therapeutic measures into effective and noneffective.
(2) (i) By a step-wise decrease in the dose of virus and restriction of the analyses to the first infectious cycle, a multiplicity of infection was ultimately reached for all "avirulent" populations at which infected cells produced normal yields of infectious viral progeny; i.e., the interferon-inducing components were diluted to noneffective levels.
(3) There is a brief review of the literature, and case examples are given of effective and noneffective consultation.
(4) Two criteria for an interpretation of noneffect are that the relative risk estimate be near unity and that the confidence interval be narrow; lack of statistical significance has no bearing on this issue.
(5) Similarly, in pigeons trained to discriminate imipramine from saline, noneffective doses of CRF shifted the imipramine dose-response curve more than twofold to the left.
(6) In addition to the schizophrenic co-twins, 3 MZ co-twins had a noneffective psychotic disorder, thus supporting the hypothesis that genes are involved in the development of Axis I schizophrenic spectrum disorders.
(7) The purpose of this work was to study the effect of indolylacetic acid (IAA) on the strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum, effective and noneffective with respect to symbiotic nitrogen fixation (L4 and 245a, and 14--73, respectively).
(8) In contrast to ZDV, PMEA was either noneffective in preventing viremia in the offspring or embryotoxic, depending on the dose.
(9) Furthermore, separation of PEC into plastic adherent and nonadherent cells showed the nonadherent (T cell enriched) cells to be noneffective alone.
(10) Effective and noneffective levels of inhalation of 239Pu and 241Am transuranium radionuclides were estimated by changes in heart mass parameters of 143 mongrel dogs.
(11) Of the 23 cases followed by CPA, the chronic efficacy of drugs was excellent for 7 (30%), moderate for 5 (22%), slight for 7 (30%), and noneffective for 4 (18%).
(12) Although it is commonly said that only a small proportion of childhood cancers are caused by environmental exposures, much has been learned about exogenous carcinogens through study of their effects or noneffects in children: 1.
(13) Vaccine preparations with mitomycin C inactivated tumor cells proved to be less (NDV) or noneffective (BCG) compared to those with irradiated tumor cells.
(14) The successful evaluation and treatment of the hypertonic patient depends on a clear understanding of the differences between effective and noneffective solute and the consequences of changes in these solutes for water distribution.
(15) Controls had been provided for to prove the noneffectiveness of the distraction device per se to the joint structures under study.
(16) In contrast, excluding these variables resulted in a 95% probability of failure (noneffective or transiently effective).
(17) The methodology for establishing threshold and noneffective (harmless) levels is also described, along with the prediction of delayed adverse effects.
(18) It was shown that T2-DNA modified I in 0,1 M NaCl completely preserves the native secondary structure, has a low degree modification (1 molecule I per 1000-2000 nucleotide pairs), but is a noneffective template for the RNA-polymerase from E. coli B (20%-40% as compared with unmodified T2-DNA).
(19) It was concluded that a single noneffective dose of a vasodilator administered together with an ACE inhibitor in normotensives can lower blood pressure and increase arterial compliance and plasma active renin.
(20) Effects of CRF were significantly enhanced when given in combination with imipramine with low noneffective imipramine doses potentiating the rate-reducing effects of CRF.