(n.) An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.
(n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
(v. t.) To stimulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(2) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(3) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(4) Several efforts to extradite Polanski to California have failed.
(5) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(6) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(7) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(8) In light of these findings, the implications of the need to address appraisals and coping efforts in research and therapy with incest victims was emphasized.
(9) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(10) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(11) In our efforts to explore alternative treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tumors we have examined the sensitivity of MDR tumor cell lines to lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells.
(12) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
(13) However, our theory differs in several important respects from the latter efforts.
(14) The results of our utilization review were conveyed to local hospitals and the blood supplier in an effort to preserved donor blood.
(15) In an effort to understand the regulation of the onset of testosterone formation in the human fetal testis we measured adenylate cyclase activity in response to hCG stimulation in homogenates of fetal testes obtained from first and second trimester human abortuses.
(16) In addition, special efforts are made to combine HIV-infected women to avoid pregnancy and childbearing, both for their own prognosis and the health of the infant.
(17) In an effort to identify the optimal dose and strain of measles vaccination for early immunization, Peruvian infants were randomly assigned to receive one of three measles vaccines in varying doses at 5 to 6 or 8 to 9 months of age.
(18) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(19) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(20) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
Laborious
Definition:
(a.) Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
(a.) Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(2) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
(3) While the TLC assay is accurate and sensitive, it is laborious.
(4) The aim of the present study was to develop a method which allows determination of pseudo (PsChE) and acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) activities in single hemolyzed blood samples of workers exposed to cholinesterase-inhibiting compounds, avoiding the time-consuming and laborious separation of plasma and erythrocytes.
(5) TR-FIA has several advantages over the more laborious techniques available so far: (i) high sensitivity, (ii) large assay ranges, (iii) rapidity and large number of simultaneous assays, (iv) simplicity, and (v) low cost provided that the laboratory has equipment for time-resolved fluorometry.
(6) The collection of blood monocytes is much less laborious than the sampling of AMs.
(7) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(8) The procedure needs half the amount of reagents as separate determination of each of the two mycotoxin, and is far less laborious.
(9) Patient charts allow the capture of all information relevant to the patient, but are laborious to review in detail.
(10) HLA typing of amniotic cells for clinical purposes using the conventional cytotoxicity assay is a laborious and complicated procedure.
(11) Current methods for determining plasma prekallikrein, one of three zymogens of the contact phase of plasma proteolysis, are laborious and impractical for general use in a clinical laboratory.
(12) The method used in the present study is less laborious than morphometry employing electron microscopy.
(13) At present rhinoviruses are detected and serotyped in tissue cultures, a slow and laborious process.
(14) Both procedures detect tubular damage equally well and neither requires laborious sample treatment.
(15) Providers of HHC services are burdened by the laborious process of obtaining favorable coverage determinations for short-term-care patients when home care substitutes for institutional care.
(16) Yet, comparison of three-dimensional structures is a laborious time-consuming procedure that typically requires a manual phase.
(17) The core variable that emerged from the data was labeled "constructing a personal residence" to reflect the participants' descriptions of their experiences as laborious, active and constructive.
(18) Only four of those cleared have actually left Guantánamo, owing to internal bureaucracy and laborious diplomacy.
(19) This method was much less laborious than other methods that have been used so far, and most significantly, constant results were obtained in repeated experiments.
(20) The resulting Kd and maximum binding site values with 36 tumor tissue samples approximated the values obtained with the more laborious, larger tissue sample-demanding six-point Scatchard plot.