(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).
Inefficiency
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
(2) NADP+ bound at the C8 atom in the adenine moiety proved to be the most efficient ligand whereas that bound at the C3 atom of the ribose moiety was relatively inefficient.
(3) Neutral extracts are inefficient in both tests of promotion and inhibition of A I growth and contain an acid-activable component with an apparent molecular weight of 600 kd.
(4) However, inefficient initiation by the mutant enzyme leads to processive and stable ternary elongating complex.
(5) Intracellular phosphorylation of ddCyd in P388 cells was also very inefficient compared to that of 2'-deoxycytidine and uridine and not rate limited by its slow entry into the cells.
(6) Nearly $500m of US food aid is lost to waste, inefficiency and the profit margins of big American agribusiness, according to a report by aid groups urging reforms on how US food aid is sourced and delivered.
(7) 6 specific motives are pointed out which can be summarized in two motive classes: an inefficient expense-effect relation and low importance of physical activity.
(8) IgG coatings that resulted in inefficient Clq fixation promoted considerable functional impairment of monocytes within 1 hr.
(9) Scientific advances in control of the disease over the last three decades have produced effective chemotherapeutic agents, established the immunizing capacity of BCG vaccine, and demonstrated the superior value of bacteriologic diagnosis in symptomatic individuals over mass community x-ray surveys, which are both inefficient and costly.
(10) Existing ocular drug delivery systems are fairly primitive and inefficient, but the stage is set for the rational design of newer and significantly improved systems.
(11) At submillimolar levels of all four dNTPs, homologous recombination is inefficient, and a side reaction produces end-joined products.
(12) IgG, through its Fc fragment, directly stimulates particle ingestion, but is relatively inefficient at inducing particle binding.
(13) In the baby the turnover time is 5--6 sec on average but with a very wide spread; in the adult it is of the order of 30 sec, so that diffusion inefficiency of gas in the lung would be only 0.001 or 0.1%.
(14) Administrative inefficiency hinders even more the appropriate utilization of resources.
(15) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
(16) After cerebral vasodilation variations in side-to-side asymmetry were shown to depend on the inefficiency of the collaterals and not on the degree of ICA obstruction or on the presence of cerebral infarction.
(17) EMR children generated more inefficient elaborations than did nonretarded children.
(18) To review procedures currently practiced in a Brazilian general hospital and to eliminate ineffective and inefficient practices.
(19) The main limitation of phototherapy is that it is inefficient, a limitation that seems to be imposed by transport processes in the body and the optics of skin rather than by the photochemical reactions on which it depends.
(20) More health complaints were placed by workers who were emotionally unstable, less relaxed, inefficient, rigid (e.g.