(n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
(n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
(n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
(n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
(n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
(v. i.) Alt. of Functionate
Example Sentences:
(1) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(2) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(3) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(4) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(6) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(7) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(8) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(9) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(10) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(11) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(12) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(13) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(14) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(15) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(16) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(17) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(18) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(19) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(20) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
Quartic
Definition:
(a.) Of the fourth degree.
(n.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic.
(n.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.
Example Sentences:
(1) To calculate NEmkg, dietary intake must be known or estimated, or it can be calculated using a complicated quartic equation.
(2) The patterns comprised linear, quadratic, cubic, and quartic mathematical functions and varied in spatial complexity.
(3) The transformed values of the third and fourth methods are obtained as the numerical solutions of quartic equations.
(4) The analysis of obtained expression for the repressor--operator system showed that binary code would preferable than quartic one.
(5) The associated Rs were: linear 0.966, quadratic 0.971, cubic 0.971, and quartic 0.977.
(6) By explicitly constructing this region, we derive a quartic equation that gives the largest measured calcium for which aequorin can be assumed to give an overestimate, as a function of the maximum calcium fluctuation.
(7) Post hoc analysis revealed a significant quartic trend for age.
(8) This quartic equation, when solved, gives the percentages of selected feedstuffs necessary to balance a diet.
(9) Since in many models it is necessary to go beyond linear terms, quadratic, cubic and quartic terms are also derived explicitly and details given of their extension to higher degrees.
(10) The polynomial coefficients provided an accurate description of dental arch morphology with the quadratic (chi 2) and quartic (chi 4) terms reflecting arch shape and the linear (chi) and cubic (chi 3) terms summarizing asymmetry.
(11) There were no significant differences between the groups in either the quadratic or quartic terms.
(12) It remains a quartic equation, but the coefficients for the first three factors of the equation are fixed, with only the unary X term and the coefficient containing variables.
(13) Distribution of ambient SO2, and IP concentrations were described using a quartic trend surface simulation.
(14) In each case, the audiogram could be approximated by a quartic equation.
(15) The quartic equation may be simplified by inserting imaginary nutrient values that optimize the equation for simplicity.
(16) However, when the antibody titers of individual hens were measured, their titers regressed on time in a significant quartic curvilinear fashion.
(17) The bile acid pool half-life remained constant until 28 days of age when it increased significantly and then held steady until it increased again at 8 wk of age following a quartic trend.
(18) The mean difference between actual thresholds and those predicted by the best-fit quartic did not exceed 7.72 dB and was less than 5 dB for eight of the 11 frequencies for which comparisons were made.