(n.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Improvement could also occur via trained female fieldworkers.
(2) During recent on-site visits a curriculum fieldwork coordinator learned that occupational therapy students were expected to use physical therapy modalities in the treatment of patients.
(3) • Range of skills needed for use in fieldwork, in using maps and geographical information systems and in researching secondary evidence including digital sources • Overall, exam questions will emphasise knowledge and understanding in relation to real world contexts.
(4) Most of this work is based on fieldwork carried out prior to 1940 and was often motivated by a desire to reconstruct the pre-contact situation.
(5) This involved a period of fieldwork in a ward which consisted of non-participant observation of the nurses at work and short interviews with them.
(6) The scheduling and managing of Level II fieldwork education which is required for the certification of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist are time-consuming, financial burdens to the colleges and universities, the training facilities, and the student.
(7) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
(8) The majority of clinicians felt that uniform objectives and a uniform evaluation for Level I fieldwork would help facilitate the experience for them.
(9) Costs generated in the first few weeks of placement were generally recovered by the 6th week, with benefits gradually increasing, then declining slightly through the end of the fieldwork.
(10) Fifty-seven (83 per cent) women had found the fieldworker's intervention useful or very useful, some describing her support as essential.
(11) The author used analytic fieldwork to learn if spouses of alcoholics conformed to the same stages as indicated by the model and to learn the interactive effects of alcoholics' and spouses' stages.
(12) This paper, based on fieldwork done in 1984 in a Peruvian highland community with a population of about 3,500, examines Quechua-speaking Indians' choice of contraceptive methods and discusses barriers to the use of modern contraceptives.
(13) This approach to Level I fieldwork, which does not require as much faculty time as do other service models currently in use, could be applied to other Level I experiences and provide a structure for expanding occupational therapy into nontraditional community settings.
(14) Fieldwork for the survey took place between January-March 1987.
(15) Suggestions are made to academic and fieldwork educators and professional and technical clinicians to strengthen intraprofessional relationships in occupational therapy.
(16) By clarifying the perceptions of the academic faculty, the fieldwork supervisors, and the students, Level I fieldwork will be strengthened and improved.
(17) Estimation methods must be robust and fieldwork well-supervised.
(18) Suggestions might be made for developing curricula and clinical fieldwork and for developing culturally sensitive educational materials for health care professionals.
(19) Parameter estimates for the models were derived from previous fieldwork in Argentina and Brazil.
(20) From these reports it is possible to estimate that there are 376 citrus fieldworker related poisonings per year in Florida.
Observation
Definition:
(n.) The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
(n.) The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment.
(n.) Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark.
(n.) Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
(n.) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.
(n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.
(n.) The information so acquired.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(3) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
(4) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(5) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(6) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(7) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
(8) For this reason, these observations should not be disregarded.
(9) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(10) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(11) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
(12) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(13) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(14) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(15) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
(16) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(17) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
(18) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
(19) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(20) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).