(n.) Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.
(n.) An efficient cause; a prime mover.
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.
Timesaving
Definition:
(a.) Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, an approximate 10-fold timesaving capacity was demonstrated compared to standard liquid-liquid extraction techniques.
(2) Subclavian vein catheterization, a timesaving, convenient and easy method of central venous access is not free of complications.
(3) Thus we find, on those occasions where template preparations are not of high purity, sequencing from linearized plasmids is desirable and timesaving because it avoids either reisolations of fresh template DNAs or further purifications.
(4) Moreover, we believe it to be considerably timesaving.
(5) After three years' experience with Proplast and two years with Plastipore, it is concluded that for ears which lack an incus and stapes arch, these materials provide results at least as good as those previously reported with homologous materials and have the advantage of easy manipulation, timesaving, and ready availability.
(6) Recent canine studies showed that LV mass may be determined accurately, with considerable timesavings, by use of sequential images throughout the cardiac cycle (single-phase MRI).
(7) The method is simple, inexpensive, and extremely timesaving.
(8) The times for cutting and ligating each vessel were recorded and the results show a 31-second timesavings by clipping the vessel as opposed to tying.
(9) A simple timesaving method for determining drug susceptibilities in vitro of isolates of Nocardia and Actinomadura is reported.
(10) We have found this new technique simple, inexpensive, and timesaving.
(11) The other advantages are the timesaving to the nursing staff, with its hidden savings in cost; the avoidance of a peripheral catheter solely for the infusion of lipid emulsion in addition to the central catheter for TPN in hospitalized patients; and the facility of use in home nutrition programs.
(12) A detailed protocol is described for obtaining 0.5 to 1.0 mg DNA from a 1-liter liquid lysate in less than 5 h. This procedure is simple, inexpensive, and timesaving, and is particularly suitable for large-scale isolation of lambda DNA.
(13) The plans need to be realistic, comprehensive, and timesaving, yet generic.
(14) Ultrasound offers a timesaving, non-invasive, and reproducible technique to detect insufficiencies concerning orifice or trunk of the great and lower saphenous veins as well as the perforating veins.
(15) The results of this study suggest that widespread use of such a program could prove timesaving and eliminate the problems of interobserver and intraobserver variation, which presently impair the reliability of the SB N2 test.
(16) To provide slight modifications in the performance of cosmetic upper and lower eyelid surgery that may be timesaving and outcome-enhancing.
(17) These morphologic studies suggest that these novel methods offer timesaving advantages over any presently available techniques, and allow for elucidation of temporal bone morphology with only a few specimens.