(n.) Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(2) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
(3) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
(4) A fuzzy coat was observed on EB located in the HPMN vacuoles only in the presence of specific antibody.
(5) The DNA from the two largest C. albicans chromosomes, which was estimated to be at least 5-10Mbp in size, ran somewhat anomalously, giving fuzzy bands which did not migrate in the direction of the average electric field.
(6) In this paper a fuzzy model of inexact reasoning in medicine is developed.
(7) The concept of fuzzy sets was chosen for its ability to represent classes of objects that are vaguely described from the measured data.
(8) This expert system, by using the fuzzy and certainty factor concepts, is able to handle imprecise and incomplete medical knowledge which has become informative.
(9) The Bretton Woods Project, which monitors the work of the bank, said: "While it is welcome to have the World Bank talking about 'inequality' instead of fuzzy language on 'shared prosperity', the bank is putting more of its money into the financial sector than any other sector.
(10) It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
(11) Data of case-control study of 241 cases of stomach cancer were analyzed by method of risk analysis of fuzzy states.
(12) CADIAG-2 employs fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic to formalize medical entities and relationships.
(13) Perivascular cuffings of inflammatory cells and large cytoplasmic inclusions of fuzzy nucleocapsids were found in the brain and spinal cord.
(14) To improve the definitions, eliminate overlapping diagnostic categories, and sharpen the fuzzy boundaries that contribute substantially to limited reproducibility, we suggest: (1) the categories of astrocytoma nos, fibrillary astrocytoma, and protoplasmic astrocytoma be collapsed into a single category of astrocytoma; (2) the diagnostic category of desmoplastic medulloblastoma be combined with medulloblastoma; and (3) the criteria for anaplasia should be further refined to include quantification of critical histologic features, e.g., agreed upon operational definitions for amount of cell density, number of mitoses and pleomorphism for anaplastic astrocytoma and anaplastic ependymoma.
(15) These crossbridges were revealed in thin sections as fuzzy filamentous structures between MT and NF.
(16) Uncertainty management for the evaluation of evidence based on linguistic and conceptual data is taking advantage of developments in the Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of evidence, possibility theory and fuzzy logic.
(17) Though he conceded that Arab leaders saw his creation, Israel’s secret Dimona plant in the Negev Desert, as “a worrisome fuzzy deterrent”, Peres the politician enjoyed creating such deliberate ambiguities.
(18) The presence of periodic acid-Schiff's positive material in this region suggests that the fuzzy coat also contains carbohydrate.
(19) Investigations of nine chemicals in 'fuzzy' rats, rhesus monkeys, and man provide data which are consistent with a general theory of outward transcutaneous chemical migration.
(20) ECs possess endothelial projections and caveolae as well as a fuzzy coat, or glycocalyx.
(2) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
(3) In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) the relationships between transstenotic pressure gradient, diameter stenosis, and lesion length are imprecisely known.
(4) The potency of this product is determined by in-vivo bioassay in hypophysectomized rats, which is imprecise, costly and invasive, and there have been suggestions that it could safely be replaced with in-vitro or physico-chemical alternatives.
(5) Total assay imprecision (CV) varied between 11% and 21%.
(6) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
(7) However, because of imprecise definitions of terms, these studies show noncomparable results.
(8) The present study challenges the previous reports, suggesting that these findings emerged because of imprecise methodologic procedures.
(9) We investigated the possibility that the spatial imprecision of amblyopic eyes can be accounted for by the relative insensitivity to contrast that has been documented for these eyes.
(10) This expert system, by using the fuzzy and certainty factor concepts, is able to handle imprecise and incomplete medical knowledge which has become informative.
(11) In this report, computer simulation is used to evaluate and compare quality-control rules designed to detect increases in within-run or between-run imprecision.
(12) The total imprecision (1 standard deviation) of a single measurement is about 15% of the value for each analyte.
(13) John Rawles's criticism of QALYs are seen as being both imprecise and largely unhelpful.
(14) The within-run imprecision of all electrodes was excellent.
(15) Imprecise definitions of these complications of necrotizing pancreatitis make inter-institutional comparisons of previously identified data dubious.
(16) It is concluded that tests for detection of SGA babies remain imprecise in practice, gestational weight alone correlates poorly with fetal well-being, and the need remains for sensitive tests to detect babies with genuine morbidity.
(17) Numerous clinicians criticise the insufficiency and imprecision, and the incoherency of the analyses of biological calculations by the usual clinical methods and thus frequently avoid prescribing such an examination.
(18) We conclude that inconsistent findings on the effect of menopausal status in the association of breast cancer with some reproductive factors are partly due to statistical imprecision and differential misclassification bias associated with different age-based or menses-based definitions of menopause.
(19) Using referral as a criterion, the question related to potential demand displayed a sensitivity of only 53%, probably because of the imprecise wording, while the specificity appeared to be 82%.
(20) Even admitting some imprecision for this estimate, the remarkable differences at the structural gene level shown by the species analyzed, suggest they had an early origin.