(n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
(n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
(v. t.) To cover with trees or wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(2) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(3) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(4) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(5) James Goodman, chairman of the Wyre Forest GPs' Association, said: "We didn't necessarily fully support the changes at the start of the process.
(6) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
(7) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
(8) Mice pretreated with Bru-Pel were protected against challenge with otherwise lethal doses of Semliki Forest virus.
(9) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
(10) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
(11) Countries would have to show, from historical data, satellite imagery and through direct measurement of trees, the extent, condition and the carbon content of their forests.
(12) It forecasts the pressure on forests will increase as world population grows by more than 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years.
(13) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(14) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(15) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(16) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(17) Tree deaths Higher rates of tree death and forest dieback have been increasingly attributed to climate change.
(18) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
(19) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(20) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
Wald
Definition:
(n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important variable for anastomotic recurrence was mucin histochemical changes at the resection margins according to the Wald statistic value.
(2) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
(3) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
(4) Levin, and Risch and Tibshirani, derive efficient tests for the incomplete triplet case by the methods of maximum likelihood estimator (Wald) tests and likelihood ratio tests, respectively.
(5) In our simulations, type I error alpha and the power 1-beta were close to nominal values with the TT and the average sample size was close to Wald's continuous SPRT and compared favourably with the multistage methods proposed by Herson and Fleming.
(6) Only diastolic blood pressure, initial aneurysm anteroposterior diameter, and degree of obstructive pulmonary disease were independently predictive of rupture (p less than 0.05, Wald test).
(7) The percentage of adverse events attributable to negligence increased in the categories of more severe injuries (Wald test chi 2 = 21.04, P less than 0.0001).
(8) "I think the entire bill is a massive, massive gift to the insurance industry and I'm really angry about that," said Wald, who wanted a "single payer" British-style system of government-funded care.
(9) This paper does not attempt to update Wald's meta-analysis with more recent studies.
(10) Lillian Wald established the first settlement house.
(11) The probability distribution of the time intervals of the binary sequence is obtained, and Wald's sequential hypothesis testing procedure is next employed to discriminate the arrhythmias.
(12) Elijah Wald, the author of Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns and Guerrillas, said politicians were attempting to censor artists instead of tackling Mexico's real problems.
(13) What you have seen is just a different philosophy rather than – at least this is my perception – somebody trying in the intelligence community to mislead people as to the value of the program,” Wald said.
(14) This article compares the different classes of approaches in terms of parameter interpretation and magnitude, standard errors of model parameters and Wald tests for covariate effects.
(15) All of the indexes are generalized to permit use of Wald and Lagrange multiplier statistics.
(16) Using mathematical prediction methods (Wald's sequential nonhomogeneous statistical test), a diagnostic table for predicting outcomes of cardiovascular diseases for the immediate 5 years was developed.
(17) The significant contribution of each variable in the occurrence of recurrence is studied with the Wald Test.
(18) After consecutive Wald's processing 28 signs were selected out of these 35.
(19) We settle this question by showing that, using the epidemiologically based meta-analysis technique of Wald et al.
(20) The comparative properties of the parametric tests depended on whether the population survival functions crossed, with the power of the Wald test as good as or better than the others in the common situation when the survival functions do not cross.