(a.) Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(2) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(3) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
(4) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(5) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(6) Linear phase finite impulse response (FIR) filtering can be used to differentiate auditory brainstem evoked potentials (ABEP) components.
(7) K5, an OKT8+ clone bearing multiple proviral integration sites, retained its HTLV-I-specific cytotoxicity and a normal dependence on interleukin 2 (IL-2), indicating that there is a finite number of transforming integration sites.
(8) Finite diffusivity in tissue and permeability restrictions can have significant effects on the proportion of the volume measured.
(9) The finite element algorithm is presented for the determination of heat flow within the partially frozen cornea during cryotherapy.
(10) As such, the finite size of the cellular membrane, as well as its precise symmetry, could not be incorporated into the previous studies.
(11) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(12) These particular observations illustrate that finite-amplitude distortion may be of considerable significance in the transmission through tissue of ultrasonic pulses during diagnostic scanning.
(13) A smooth isolated, axisymmetric occlusion in a straight vascular tube is a tractable problem for pulsatile flow calculations via finite-difference approximations to the Navier-Stokes equation.
(14) This paper presents a finite-difference method to calculate SAR in a realistic, heterogeneous model of the leg below the knee.
(15) Detailed analysis of microsphere distribution in a cubic centimeter of normal liver and the calculation of dose to a 3-dimensional fine grid has shown that the radiation distribution created by the finite size and distribution of the microspheres results in an highly heterogeneous dose pattern.
(16) Low-level finite state (locked-unlocked) control is compared with open-loop stimulation of the knee extensor muscles in functional electrical stimulation (FES) induced paraplegic standing.
(17) Thus a large portion of Rp binding to NAP may represent nonspecific binding rather than binding to a finite number of Rp acceptor sites.
(18) Biomechanical properties of the six major lumbar spine ligaments were determined from 38 fresh human cadaveric subjects for direct incorporation into mathematical and finite element models.
(19) The velocity field of the suspending fluid and the instantaneous velocities of the cylinders are computed by the finite element method.
(20) In addition, we studied facial morphology using finite-element scaling analysis and found that the two genera show similarities in morphological integration, or the way in which biological landmarks relate to one another in three dimensions to define the form of the organism.
Pinite
Definition:
(n.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.
(n.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
(n.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Delta Pinit is thought to principally reflect the resistance of the pulmonary airways Raw.
(2) Baltic amber is a fossil resin deposited 36-7 million years ago and one source may be the extinct tree Pinites (Pinus) succinifer.
(3) Delta Pinit has been taken to equal the pressure drop across the pulmonary airways, possibly with a contribution from the tissues of the respiratory system.
(4) Despite the introduction of significant mechanical heterogeneities, delta Pinit still reflected the pressure drop as the result of the resistance of the conducting airways.
(5) Steady-state resistance calculated from the sum of delta Pinit and delta Pdiff was similar to airway resistance calculated from delta Pinit alone.
(6) 65: 408-414, 1988) that in open-chest mongrel dogs, under control conditions, the initial rapid pressure change (delta Pinit) reflects conducting airway resistance and the subsequent gradual pressure change (delta Pdif) reflects stress recovery of the tissues.
(7) The physiological interpretations of delta Pinit and delta Pdif have been somewhat unclear.
(8) The first phase is a very rapid jump, designated delta Pinit, which occurs immediately on interruption of flow.
(9) We found that, in the absence of the chest wall, delta Pinit reflects only the resistance of the airways and that delta Pdif can be ascribed almost entirely to the stress recovery properties of lung tissues.
(10) In all studies, airway pressure rose to equilibrate with alveolar pressure immediately after the interruption (delta Pinit) regardless of increases in airway resistance.
(11) A Moody plot (the Friction coefficient calculated using delta Pinit versus the Reynolds number) had a marked negative slope at Reynolds numbers up to 5 x 10(4), whereas the plot is predicted to have a slope close to zero at Reynolds numbers greater than 4 x 10(3) on the basis of purely fluid dynamic considerations.
(12) The second phase is designated delta Pdif and is a further pressure change in the same direction as delta Pinit but evolving over several seconds.
(13) In the present study we attempted to separate the contributions of airways and tissues to delta Pinit in intact dogs by performing flow interruptions with the lungs full of gas mixtures having different physical properties.
(14) If the flow of gas at the airway opening of a tracheostomized dog is suddenly interrupted during expiration, the airway pressure exhibits a sudden very rapid rise, called delta Pinit, which has been shown previously to equal the resistive pressure drop across the airways in open-chest dogs, and to have a significant additional contribution from the tissues of the chest wall in intact dogs.
(15) Since previously used methods for measuring respiratory system resistance have employed varying combinations of delta Pinit and delta Pdif as the resistive pressure drop, it is clear that measurements of resistance must be made with standard techniques under standard conditions if they are to be compared.
(16) Following airway occlusion one generally sees a rapid change in airway opening pressure, Pinit, which reflects the resistive pressure drop across the system, followed by a secondary, slower pressure change, Pdif, which reflects the tissue visco-elastic properties together with any redistribution of gases occurring between lung units at different pressure at the time of interruption.
(17) delta Pdif became larger than delta Pinit towards the end of expiration.
(18) In general, the pressure signal obtained exhibits an initial rapid change (delta Pinit) accompanied by rapid damped oscillations, followed by a further slow change to a steady-state plateau level.
(19) We used the interrupter technique to measure the resistance Rinit (equal to the initial change delta Pinit in tracheal pressure divided by flow at interruption) during expiration in six normal anaesthetized-paralyzed cats.
(20) Assuming delta Pinit to be the result of a linear dependence of airway resistance on flow and a constant tissue resistance, we were able to account for the negative slope of the Moody plot.