(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.
Teamwork
Definition:
(n.) Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flying in Soyuz was “ real teamwork ” she said, adding: “Tim will have no trouble with that.” David Southwood , a senior researcher at Imperial College, and a member of the UK space agency steering board, has known Tim since he joined the European Space Agency in 2009.
(2) The causality principle provides a theoretic and practical basis for the integration of ancillary methods into various therapeutic concepts, and for therapeutic teamwork.
(3) In the course of this teamwork the deficiencies and drawbacks of hospitalisation legislation have become glaringly evident.
(4) Good communication and teamwork between anesthesiologists, surgeons and admitting doctors are necessary.
(5) Evidently fuelled by the agony of losing a series twelve months ago when the trophy was almost within their grasp, they also had the teamwork, technique and experience to turn their quest for revenge into a reality.
(6) Within the work-sharing and cooperative process of socialist teamwork the organisation of work is a deduced essential condition (function) as well as an active influencing element of the management.
(7) There is an ethic of teamwork, too, which is elucidated in this paper, especially in relation to the pitfalls of power and shared responsibility.
(8) The article describes a case in which dysfunctional teamwork was threatening patient care on medical units.
(9) "It's unbelievable teamwork between companies which are normally competitors but are now working together," he says.
(10) Against this backdrop, the paper will seek to clarify some of the factors associated with recognizing and responding to the psychosocial aspects of infertility, highlight some points concerning teamwork between doctors and workers in the psychosocial field, and finally present a list of indicators which might be used as a guide in determining when to make a referral for psychosocial assistance.
(11) With increasing concern for teamwork in clinical practice in health care settings, the need to identify the concepts, methods, and learning processes for improving interdisciplinary team skills is apparent.
(12) A country more famous for its brave exploits with the oval ball than the round one will remember forever a group of players that exemplified teamwork, industry and pride.
(13) The TEAMWORK training programme for DSAs is being used extensively, by experienced staff updating their skills even more than by new recruits.
(14) Management experts say that teamwork begins at the top--with senior executives.
(15) During the address, broadcast in full at 3pm on Christmas Day, the Queen will say: "As London hosted a splendid summer of sport, all those who saw the achievement and courage at the Olympic and Paralympic Games were further inspired by the skill, dedication, training and teamwork of our athletes.
(16) The student under the compulsory act had also good attitude towards teamwork and the practice in the rural area while the student not under the act had only good attitude towards teamwork but poor attitude towards the practice in the rural area.
(17) Between September 1985 and December 1987, 45 residents in all three years of training were evaluated by the nursing staff on four aspects of performance: managerial skills, communication, teamwork, and clinical organization.
(18) Comments, penned by 90% of respondents, indicated a solid, positive concern for developing nutritional expertise, productive teamwork, and support from fellow care-givers.
(19) Through teamwork, clients receive coordinated services aimed at keeping them active and functional in their most treasured and familiar environment, their home.
(20) CEO Jim Biltz and nurse executive Linda Mild of 760-bed HCA Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS, tell Hospitals Staff Editor Paula Eubanks how their participative management style and the hospital's continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiative have fostered new levels of teamwork and shared vision among the institution's top managers.