(1) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(2) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(3) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
(4) The typology developed in two previous surveys of illicit heroin products is applicable to many of the samples studied in this work, although significant changes have occurred in the chemical profile of illicit heroin products from certain geographical regions.
(5) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(6) The studies reported here examined physical interactions between V. cholerae O1 and natural plankton populations of a geographical region in Bangladesh where cholera is an endemic disease.
(7) Data were weighted to represent the population in this geographic area.
(8) Partially purified VLPs were found to sediment at 183S in sucrose gradients and to cross-react with antibody in acute phase sera from geographically isolated cases of ET-NANBH.
(9) This hypothesis is consistent with recent findings of elastosis of the bowel wall muscles, the distribution of diverticula along the colon, as well as with epidemiological data on the emergence of diverticulosis coli as a medical problem and its geographic prevalence.
(10) There were no significant sex, diagnostic subgroup, or geographic difference in any of the drug parameters measured.
(11) Regarding prostatic cancer, geographical variations are minor and no particular region with an increased or decreased mortality could be identified.
(12) We compared the results with those obtained in other countries in our geographical area.
(13) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
(14) A computer system for probabilistic diagnosis of jaundice was tested on a patient sample from a geographical area different from that for which it was first constructed.
(15) It may be that the low severity of the disease in India, juxtaposed against the high mortality rates in parts of Africa, may be due to the relative prevalence of marasmic and kwashiorkor types of malnutrition in these particular geographic areas.
(16) Epidemiologic studies and careful analysis of nutritional data played an important role in precising the risk represented by alcohol consumption and dietary habits, and characterized the geographical distribution of the disease.
(17) Addresses were not available for 31 pc of patients so that geographical variations could not be determined accurately.
(18) The clinical presentation of the cutaneous lesions and the geographic origin of the infection were consistent with infection by L. b. guyanensis.
(19) (2) E. granulosus, which includes two geographical groups: (a) Northern group, with two sub-species E. g borelis and E. g. canadensis, the life-cycle of which is sylvatic and that are agents of a pulmonary hydatidosis which may affect Man.
(20) The detection of health inequalities in the urban environment and their magnitude depends to a great extent on the internal social coherence of the geographical division used.
Surveyor
Definition:
(n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
(n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.
(n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
(n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
(n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
Example Sentences:
(1) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) The affordability and availability of homes in the UK “is now a national emergency” the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said, as it warned that measures such as extending right-to-buy would prevent the new government reaching its target of 1m more homes by 2020.
(4) Surveyors who had been predicting that London would see price increases of 9% a year over the next five years had revised that down to just under 5%, while on a national level the forecast has edged down to 5%.
(5) Even six months ago few people outside Westminster’s building surveyors could have imagined removal as a serious possibility.
(6) The company has created an apprenticeship programme for surveyors as an alternative to university, although it also increased graduate recruits last year.
(7) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
(8) The surveyor is proud to announce, "I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth."
(9) Further evidence of the accelerating housing market emerged on Monday when surveyors said they were more optimistic about the prospects for increasing sales than at any point in the last 14 years.
(10) Housing is a key issue and this does not give me any confidence that the department has a grip on its own figures.” Jeremy Blackburn, head of policy at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said: “The NAO report has shown what was suspected by many.
(11) The group says new buyer enquiries in England and Wales rose for the third month in a row in January, with 16% more chartered surveyors reporting a rise as opposed to a fall.
(12) There is an added element of uncertainty as we wait to see the impact of tax changes on the buy-to-let sector.” The figures are backed up by the latest monthly survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), which found the market was “unusually buoyant” in December.
(13) The balance of surveyors saying prices rose compared to those recording a fall stood at +9 percentage points in March, down from +18 points in February.
(14) Meanwhile, figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) published this week suggested interest from potential buyers is increasing.
(15) Although the housing market appears to have slowed, there seems to be no let-up in rising rents, and the most recent monthly report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors predicted that they would rise at a faster pace than house prices over the next five years.
(16) In commercial property little impact was expected from events in China, says Jeff Matsu, senior economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(17) Simon Rubinsohn, economist for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), says: “Yields have been compressed and returns aren’t as attractive as they were.
(18) The average number of completed sales slipped, the number of properties up for sale fell back, and surveyors reported fewer buyer enquiries.
(19) Among the most important landlord firms Southern Cross will have to win over to survive is London & Regional, the investment empire of former optician Ian Livingstone and his chartered surveyor brother Richard.
(20) Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said the latest figures were "more evidence that the housing market is stabilising.