(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.
Streamline
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(2) The HSE wants to streamline the assessment of new reactor designs by waiving certain aspects through a series of "exclusions".
(3) Instead the government insists that the sparse legislative agenda reflected a streamlining of government priorities to help it better cope with the downturn.
(4) Streamlines are determined by numerical solving of the system of equations defining the current function.
(5) The chancellor also said that the sometimes bewildering array of initiatives already in existence for small firms would be streamlined under the banner of UK Finance for Growth, which will oversee the existing £4bn of schemes.
(6) But the commission called on Spain to streamline border crossings by expanding the infrastructure, and demanded both countries work together more to combat cigarette smuggling, with the UK asked to share more intelligence on the issue with Spain .
(7) A biological process serves as a source and its products are subject t] local dispersive fluid forces constrained by chaotic streamlines.
(8) On Tuesday the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report on financial management at the BBC saying the corporation should do more to streamline internal financial reporting, and monitor more closely whether its spending decisions were aligned with its strategic and editorial objectives.
(9) Abbott says he was streamlining programs and the changes would ensure good outcomes for indigenous people.
(10) Bailey said the company's reporting lines would be streamlined into three areas – product, regions, and operations and finance.
(11) Until we streamline the process and end the tick-box culture, we will continue to put off investors."
(12) I kind of get why this government has sought to streamline 150 Aboriginal programs down to just five broad-based program areas, yet there is room to question some areas of policy contradiction.
(13) We believe this device is a real breakthrough in streamlining orthotopic liver transplantation.
(14) We urgently need a new, streamlined process that gives all EU nationals who have made the UK their home an easy route to permanent residency.
(15) The Coalition argues environmental approvals need to be streamlined into a “one-stop shop”, while opponents claim the states cannot be trusted to safeguard the environment without federal oversight.
(16) And if a smaller, streamlined eurozone failed to materialise, the party has dared to suggest Germany would be better off out of it.
(17) There was the "modern military" trend, which featured a streamlined Victoria-Beckham-like dress.
(18) This, also, is a didactic music workshop with a difference - part of an umbrella programme called Discovery, established 20 years ago by the LSO as the orchestra's outreach wing, with a mission not unlike that of Venezuela's Sistema, but streamlined over two decades for application to home ground.
(19) Even as Germany and Austria have moved in recent days to streamline the movement of refugees from Hungary towards western Europe, people smugglers have found brisk business in helping desperate refugees circumnavigate a European asylum system that seems as weighted against them as ever.
(20) On Saturday, News Corp Australia reported that working groups would be shut down and expensive agencies dismantled in a bid to streamline the public service, saving more than $500m over four years and taking staff numbers back to the levels of seven years ago.