(a.) Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
(a.) Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(2) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(3) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(4) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(5) Comparisons between predicted and observed results of studies using different coalition paradigms show considerable empirical support for the model.
(6) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
(7) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(8) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
(9) Energy conformational calculations on these compounds were also carried out using the empirical energy program called MOLMEC, in order to better understand how the 4-R substituents modulate receptor binding affinities and efficacies.
(10) The resultant scales were administered to a small sample for preliminary empirical testing.
(11) We conclude that the concept of the limbic system cannot be accepted on empirical grounds.
(12) Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process.
(13) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(14) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(15) The similarities in methods of intervention found in the work of investigators of very different theoretical persuasion raise the possibility that most treatment methods owe more to empirical clinical experience than to their presumed derivation from a theoretical model.
(16) This study is directed toward the empirical elaboration of four of these issues as they relate to adjustment in the community.
(17) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
(18) In addition to a detailed description of the method, examples for its applications are given, including concomitant investigations of the same cells by empirical staining, immunostaining, and fluorescence histochemistry of biogenic monoamines; colocalization of multiple peptides to the same cells and corresponding specificity controls; three-dimensional reconstructions based upon immunostained serial semithin sections; quantitative (computer-assisted) determinations of immunoreactivities.
(19) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
(20) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.
Molecular
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(2) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(3) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(4) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(5) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(6) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(7) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(8) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
(9) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(10) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
(11) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
(12) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(13) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
(14) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
(15) In both instances the permeation rates of proteins can be better correlated to hydrodynamic radii than to molecular weights.
(16) One major band with a molecular weight of 12,000 was detected by autofluorography and coincided with the Coomassie staining band of apocytochrome c from S. cerevisiae.
(17) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(18) Immune electroblotting assay detected antibody reactive with a CKV protein with a molecular weight of 67,000 in the serum of the patient, but not in sera of an adult T cell leukemia patient and healthy controls.
(19) Treatment with trypsin gave essentially one radioactive peptide, the active site peptide, of approximately 2300 molecular weight.
(20) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.