(n.) The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
(n.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(2) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(3) This may be due to efficient replacement of Leu by Phe at CUC (and, probably, CUU) codons throughout the genome.
(4) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(5) These lysates are comparable to those of Escherichia coli in transcriptional and translational fidelity and efficiency in response to a given template DNA.
(6) The carotenoid lycopene was the most efficient 1O2 quencher (kq + kr = 31 x 10(9) M-1 s-1).
(7) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(8) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(9) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
(10) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
(11) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(12) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
(13) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(14) Although they were praised in the last five years as the most efficient drugs against cancer and infectious diseases, no great success was clinically and experimentally reported in the past.
(15) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(16) A standard protocol is reported for the highly efficient demonstration of replication patterns corresponding to R-type and G-type banding.
(17) The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly.
(18) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(20) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
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.