(a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, participation in the workshop program changed in a significant way their explanatory patterns in the direction of more participatory ones.
(2) It highlights the lack of explanatory power and the primitive nature of current metapsychology.
(3) However, ER emerged as the sole significantly explanatory factor when ER+PR- patients were removed from analysis.
(4) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
(5) We elicited explanatory models from patients and obtained a history of prior consultations to other types of healer.
(6) When a subsequent model was created that did not include decayed root surfaces or root fragments as potential explanatory variables, an additional variable relating to self-perception of mouth appearance emerged.
(7) These are conditional probabilities used in logit models to define the dependence of the multinomial proportions on explanatory variables and unknown parameters.
(8) The concept of punitive unconscious self-criticism and the concept of divergent conflict, provide sufficient explanatory power.
(9) The yield of explanatory x-ray findings was over three times greater among patients with indications for radiography than among those without.
(10) Only hypoalbuminemia had a significant independent explanatory value regarding prognosis.
(11) Life satisfaction is used as an explanatory outcome.
(12) Signal is useful variability, potentially relatable to explanatory variables, and noise is extraneous.
(13) Source of subjects, their marital status, the type of study, data collection methods, matching for geographical area, the number of adjustment factors used in the study analysis, the country of study and the calendar period in which the study ended were all important explanatory factors for inter-study variation, but a substantial proportion of inter-study variation remained unexplained.
(14) Age of onset of alcoholism is gaining prominence as an explanatory construct in the development of models of alcoholism.
(15) None of the other variables added significant explanatory ability to either model.
(16) It is claimed that the demarcation between these explanatory modes is crucial in psychiatric, and especially psychotherapeutic practice and research.
(17) This study also points to significant regional variation in the proportion of beneficiaries who use home health services, even with controls for many different explanatory variables.
(18) Self-concepts and normative expectations are implicated as key explanatory variables.
(19) This week I spoke to Richard Murphy , the economist and tax expert, whose new book has the self-explanatory title The Courageous State and brims with imaginative thinking.
(20) One important difference is that among the urban unemployed the perceived size of the network is an explanatory factor, but among the rural unemployed perceived stigmatization is more important.
Exploratory
Definition:
(a.) Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.
Example Sentences:
(1) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(2) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(3) Exploratory statistics were used to determine differences of interest.
(4) A rich protein solution obtained from the seaweed was assayed for myorelaxant, anticonvulsant and analgesic activity and for its effects on spontaneous locomotor activity, amphetamine-induced hypermotility, exploratory behaviour, barbiturate-induced sleep, and body temperature.
(5) An altered response to morphine was obtained; the effect of morphine on copulatory behavior was diminished while morphine's effect on exploratory activity was potentiated.
(6) When injected separately, in control experiments, both compounds had similar effects on the exploratory-motor activity and the emotional behaviour, but when injected simultaneously in various doses a distinct antagonism between l-DOPA and apomorphine, according to all the behaviour tests, was noted (a decrease of sterotypy, aggressiveness and emotional reactivity).
(7) Intact animals showed habituation of exploratory behaviour toward a heterospecific fish after five consecutive encounters.
(8) Comments on the symptomatology, exploratory means and differential diagnosis with other sinusal or orbital conditions.
(9) Only exploratory laparotomy was possible in 20 cases, and all of these patients died.
(10) The data obtained by the technic were statistically processed using the significance of Chi or Khy square test, so as to make an exploratory-descriptive study of the method through the comparison of the averages obtained from the samples, smears and macrophages.
(11) Some of the patients with a blank audiogram are better off with exploratory tympanotomy and stapedotomy.
(12) We now need to get on with exploratory drilling to find out the extent of the UK’s oil and gas reserves.” Geoff Davies, chief executive of Celtique, said: “We are studying the impact of the amendments [and] will make a decision in due course regarding the potential appeal of the Fernhurst planning refusal.” Cuadrilla did not respond to a request for comment.
(13) We present a methodology based on exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques that we have found useful in examining health-related data for our ambulatory care catchment area.
(14) These results indicate that regarding the stage of Hodgkin's disease, noninvasive methods so far do not achieve the validity of pathological examination obtained at exploratory laparotomy with splenectomy.
(15) The effects of eltoprazine (DU 28853) on exploratory behavior and conspecific social attraction were examined in four experiments.
(16) Hypericum extract enhanced the exploratory activity of mice in a foreign environment, significantly prolonged the narcotic sleeping time dose-dependently, and within a narrow dose range exhibited reserpine antagonism.
(17) On the basis of the findings from CT scan, sonography, and exploratory laparotomy, five patients were determined to have poorly localized disease and 16 patients were felt to have well localized purulent fluid collection.
(18) Data from the US Department of Agriculture's Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Measures of Individual Food Intake, conducted in 1982, were used to evaluate individual intakes for day-to-day patterns and to relate these patterns to the reliability of estimated daily energy and nutrient intake means.
(19) It was found that the only effect of the peripheral cholinergic blockade on the performance of either task group was to produce a decrease in exploratory behavior.
(20) This deduction was supported by an exploratory dose-seeking study that spanned five years in 20 patients with recurrent (non-gall stone) acute or chronic pancreatitis and confirmed by a 20-week double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial of the successful combination (daily doses of 600 micrograms organic selenium, 0.54 g vitamin C, 9000 IU B-carotene, 270 IU vitamin E and 2 g methionine) in a further 20 cases.