(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.
Nap
Definition:
(v. i.) To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
(v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.
(n.) A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
(n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.
(n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
(v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.
Example Sentences:
(1) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(2) Of these 30-45% were of high affinity with a mean Kd value of 0.3 and 0.7 nM for GRO alpha and NAP-2, respectively, and 55-70% of low affinity (Kd = 30 nM).
(3) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
(4) During subsequent time off, napping and night sleep increased total sleep length above baseline levels.
(5) It is suggested that the modifier site is accessible to NAP-taurine only from the outside whereas the transport site may be accessible from either side.
(6) One service NAPS provides is a clip sheet of publication-ready newspaper columns complete with artwork which an editor can "clip" and use directly in a newspaper.
(7) Screening studies, from the most simple (night-time Holter monitor or ear oximetry) to either a carefully performed nap study or a home recording may aid in deciding which patients require a formal polysomnogram.
(8) Thus a large portion of Rp binding to NAP may represent nonspecific binding rather than binding to a finite number of Rp acceptor sites.
(9) By contrast, NAP did not affect these chondroformative processes.
(10) US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted that her traditional State of the Union nap may have been induced by a glass or two of wine.
(11) Some new data are presented about the clinical pathology of glossitis on the base of clinical, paraclinical, microbiological and virological studies and reliable possibilities of affecting by nistatin-prednisolone emulsion (NAP).
(12) Napping did not affect subsequent nocturnal sleep in either group.
(13) These observations suggest that our method can represent high NAP activity more exactly than NAP score and may be a potential tool in differentiating polycythemia vera from essential thrombocythemia.
(14) The late nap was more efficient in reducing sleepiness during the last 5 h of the experiments (23.00-04.00).
(15) The probable structures of the inclusion compounds of NAP with natural cyclodextrins were constructed using a molecular graphics program.
(16) This paper describes the 200-fold enrichment of the native RBF-2 class of PR acceptor sites beginning with the DNase I digestion of NAP to obtain DNase-resistant fragment (NAPf) containing approximately 150 bp of DNA.
(17) In contrast to G-CSF, GM-CSF did not affect the NAP activity in PMN in spite of the enhanced incorporation of amino acids into PMN by GM-CSF.
(18) Although anti-NH2SPD and anti-NAPS antibodies were identified that appeared to bind 3H-SPD, 3H-DOMP or 125I-IBZM with high affinity, none of the populations of polyclonal antibodies or monoclonal antibodies bound all three ligands with high affinity.
(19) In the dark, this compound, 8-methoxy-2-(N-n-propyl,N-3-(2-nitro-4-azidophenyl)aminopropyl) aminotetralin or 8-methoxy-3'-NAP-amino-PAT, displaced [3H]8-OH-DPAT and [3H]5-HT bound to 5-HT1A and 5-HT1 sites in hippocampal membranes with IC50 values of 6.6 and 18.1 nM respectively.
(20) Using highly purified CTAP-III as the substrate we studied the generation of NAP-2 by several neutral tissue proteinases.