(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.
Expository
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young students, old students, and old nonstudents read and recalled short texts that were in either narrative or expository form.
(2) The paper is largely expository and is intended to motivate the development and usage of the regressive logistic models.
(3) Undergraduates, 20 women and 25 men, studied an expository text containing only isolated paragraphs.
(4) This experiment compared the effects of high-level and low-level postpassage questions, when presented immediately after the passage segment containing the answer to the question, on college students' free recall of expository prose passages.
(5) Young and older adults of low or high verbal ability heard narrative and expository passages at different presentation rates.
(6) There were 2 specific objectives: (1) to examine the effects of text genre (narrative and expository) and text format (familiar and traditional) on mothers' teaching strategies while interacting with their children around reading tasks, and (2) to examine the effectiveness of mothers' teaching strategies in eliciting children's participation in the joint reading tasks.
(7) This expository paper describes two useful tools for the statistical analysis of processes that generate repeated measures and longitudinal data.
(8) The instructional program consisted of expository texts, different types of questions and feedback.
(9) Younger and older adults read and recalled narrative and expository prose passages of varying propositional density.
(10) This study examined the effectiveness of a summarization strategy for increasing comprehension of expository prose in students with learning disabilities.
(11) College students studied an expository text following their own self-directed study procedures.
(12) We hope to remedy this deficiency with this expository piece.
(13) As in the 1975 Marihuana and Health Report, the present chapter is organized for expository purposes around four categories of unlearned behavior: gross behavior; activity and exploration; consummatory behavior; and aggressive behavior.
(14) Response latencies on a secondary task provided an index of cognitive capacity used in reading narrative and expository passages.
(15) "Yet I fear we must endure many pages of expository narration in which minor characters in whom the reader has little interest reveal details of the crime until the jury inevitably reaches the wrong conclusion."
(16) Thirty hearing-impaired and 30 normally hearing students read and summarized two expository science passages that were controlled for the number of topic (main idea) sentences and that had been rated previously for the importance of "idea units."
(17) An expository discussion of pertinent hypotheses for such situations is given, and appropriate test statistics are developed through the application of weighted least squares methods.
(18) This expository paper starts with a non-technical outline of the latent trait model, gives a detailed analysis of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and examines points raised by the empirical analysis through computer stimulation.
(19) Most of us who have concerned ourselves with models can perceive outlines like those above to catalog the future evolution of the expository function of models.
(20) High school youths who were prelingually and profoundly deaf, hearing elementary-school-age youths, and hearing reading-disabled high school youths read expository texts and filled in deleted words and phrases.