(n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
(n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
(n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
(n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
(n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.
(n.) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(3) Faculty and students would be communicating and hopefully fulfilling the needs of and responsibilities to each other.
(4) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(5) This descriptive research study used standardized and investigator-developed tests to examine acceptance of the computer by randomly selected administrators and faculty in private baccalaureate nursing programs.
(6) Study findings provide baseline data for decision making for nursing faculty and administrators.
(7) A survey of chairmen of United States departments of pathology (97% response rate) augmented with data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows that roughly two thirds (65%) of departmental faculty are physicians, the great majority of whom are pathologists.
(8) This paper analyses the age structure of the pollenotics yearly examinated at the Allergology and Clinical Immunology Department of the Faculty Hospital at Olomouc.
(9) The authors conducted the course together and an atmosphere of intellectual honesty was developed through open discussion between faculty and students.
(10) After some sensitivity has developed, faculty can focus on rehabilitation theories and processes.
(11) The majority of students and clinical faculty believed the form was good to excellent in meeting their needs, in being useful in a variety of settings, in being applicable for both occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students, and in overall efficiency.
(12) The following criteria were used to document program enhancement after the implementation of a microcomputer laboratory: faculty and student attitudes toward computer-assisted instruction (CAI); student anxiety scores toward state board examinations; increased visibility of the college (number of authored CAI modules, CAI grants, computer committee memberships, faculty attendance at computer courses); and relationship involving learning style, attitude, and student learning.
(13) A medical faculty in a third world country is intended for whom and what should be its good?
(14) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(15) By comparing success curves over the years, the various medical faculties were rated with a 'selectivity' score, indicating those significantly different from the national average.
(16) In the conclusion of the review the author presents his own experience with the organization of a MAB (mental anorexia--bulimia club) founded in 1989 at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University in Prague, attached to the Unit of specialized care of patients with psychogenic eating disorders.
(17) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
(18) Faculty members are encouraged to provide an environment and means for nursing students to gain the skills necessary to professionalize human caring.
(19) Students, agency staff and program faculty found the internship a meaningful, consciousness-raising experience, and an excellent vehicle for preparing future physicians to interact with and care for their aged patients.
(20) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
Faulty
Definition:
(a.) Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
(a.) Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(2) The other patient developed bleeding following cesarean section which did not respond to angiographic embolization due to faulty technique.
(3) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(4) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
(5) Disturbances of ocular motility following trauma are manifested by diplopia and faulty ocular rotations which frequently require an abnormal head position for fusion.
(6) The following advantages must be pointed out in respect of using DLR in thoracic diagnosis in the intensive-care ward: No faulty exposures; the thorax can be x-rayed with the patient recumbent in bed, with lateral take: the image brightness in maintained at a constant level by histogram selection; electronic image processing and storage.
(7) As that faulty elision is obvious to most people, the attack switches to the Lib Dems' failure to investigate.
(8) Instead, according to defence sources, the problem was with telemetric directional data, ie faulty information.
(9) Some women may carry faulty mitochondria without knowing.
(10) Infections occurred in four patients with leukaemia and severe agranulocytosis (after faulty puncture, and after rupture of the connection between catheter and injection port).
(11) On two-dimensional gels, the faulty proteins were shown as a trail of spots with molecular weights similar to those of the authentic proteins but separated in the isoelectric focusing dimension, a phenomenon we call "stuttering."
(12) In view of the hypocalcaemic properties of calcitonin and the importance of calcium ions in cell aggregation, this phenomenon has been attributed to an alteration in cell adhesion which results in faulty cell migration during gastrulation with consequent abnormalities of the prechordal region of the archenteron roof and the overlying neural plate.
(13) Explanations of these results have included accelerated evolution in the snake lineage, paralogy rather than orthology, and faulty determination of the sequence, and the rattlesnake is now often omitted from cytochrome c phylogenetic trees.
(14) Sometimes these errors are due to faulty vigilance or incompetence, but usually they are made by appropriately trained, competent practitioners.
(15) Surveillance systems and other descriptive efforts can provide useful information on the scope and spectrum of agricultural injuries but can seldom identify specific factors, such as faulty machinery, risky behaviors, or particularly hazardous environments, which can be the focus of preventive efforts.
(16) The recall has also triggered a federal investigation, congressional hearings and a flurry of lawsuits from family members of people killed in cars with faulty switches.
(17) These lesions probably represent "pseudoosteolysis" with faulty primary bone formation rather than true osteolysis of previously normal bone.
(18) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
(19) Poor motor training or reflex inhibition causes secondary, less efficient mechanisms to be substituted for the primary ones, resulting in faulty coordination.
(20) The etiology is faulty maturation of procollagen III and the diagnosis is based upon fibroblast culture.