(a.) Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(3) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(4) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(5) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
(6) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(7) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(8) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(9) The kinetic properties of the cell-free extracts fit mathematical models developed for in vitro systems reconstituted from purified enzymes.
(10) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
(11) Higuaín was not fully fit which, with Rodrigo Palacio out with a calf injury, perhaps in part explained why Alejandro Sabella had made the change.
(12) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(13) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(14) The contra-indications for them are: 1. a better visual acuity with spectacles than with contact lenses, 2. advanced cases (4th degree of Amsler) whose fitting is impossible, 3. unilateral keratoconus, 4. associated diseases such as trachomatous pannus, allergic kerato-conjunctivitis.
(15) The 'intermediate' (tau 1) and 'slow' (tau 2) components were seen by curve fitting M-current deactivation currents.
(16) A physiologically based model, comprising the reservoir, liver blood and tissue, and bile, was fitted to reservoir concentrations of 3H-oxazepam and 3H-oxazepam glucuronides, and the cumulative amount excreted into bile.
(17) Although distributed models yielded improved fits of the data, the distributed and lumped models produced similar estimates of membrane parameters.
(18) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
(19) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(20) In this paper, we develop functions suggested by and regression fit to crystallographic data which allow three of these torsion angles, alpha (O3'-P-O5'-C5'), delta (C5'-C4'-C3'-O3') and epsilon (C4'-C3'-O3'-P), to be calculated as dependent variables of those remaining.
Occasional
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.
(a.) Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(2) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(3) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(4) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(5) Our interest in the role of association brain structures during this behavior is not occasional.
(6) The region of the tentorium and straight sinus can occasionally give rise to a vermiform appearance (the "AVM artifact").
(7) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(8) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(9) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(10) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(11) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
(12) Occasionally, these aggregates coagulate and contract into a dense gel in the absence of MgATP or CaATP.
(13) The virus neutralizing (VN) titers were occasionally lower where the polyvalent vaccines were used when compared to those from chickens given the monovalent vaccines.
(14) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
(15) Stimulation of this mechanism produced an average 58.9% reduction of the heart rate (calculated from 55 responsive points having more than 40% reduction) associated mostly with hypotension, or no change or occasionally a slight increase of the arterial blood pressure.
(16) In the progeny of the surviving males, neither translocations nor independent fragments are found; indirect evidence indicated the occasional presence of inversions.
(17) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
(18) At thoracic levels occasional neurons of the intermediolateral column cell group were NGF receptor positive.
(19) The PAF receptor antagonist SRI 63-072 in a dose of 0.6 mg, reversed by 70% the reduction of coronary flow within 2-4 min after its addition to the perfusate; ED50 was 0.4 mg. Bradycardia and arrhythmia were reduced; however, the normal electrical activity was only occasionally restored.
(20) Staphylococci were the predominant inhabitants of normal skin, whereas micrococci were found only occasionally in this environment.