(1) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(2) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(3) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(4) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(5) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(6) Symptomatic improvement was obtained in 14 of the 15 hands, and sensory-evoked response improved in 13 hands.
(7) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(8) Systemic corticosteroids (i.e., prednisone, prednisolone or methylprednisolone) have improved the survival rate of patients with moderate and severe ulcerative colitis.
(9) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(10) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(11) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(12) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(13) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(14) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(15) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
(16) Her muscle weakness and hyperCKemia markedly improved by corticosteroid therapy, suggesting that the diagnosis was compatible with polymyositis (PM).
(17) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
(18) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(19) Akinetic symptoms were improved in 7 of 10 patients.
(20) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
Manure
Definition:
(v. t.) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
(v. t.) To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.
(n.) Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The metacercaria-detecting buoy method was applied to rice fields fertilized with cattle manure for 7 days in mid-summer, as well as to fields located closely to cattle pens, but not fertilized.
(2) Salmonella contamination of swine and morbidity rates among the workers of swine-breeding complexes and the members of their families, as well as among the population inhabiting the zone of possible influence rendered by such complexes on the environment, have been studied as exemplified by 4 complexes for large-scale swine breeding, differing in their technology of swine raising and fattening, their systems of the purification and utilization of manure-containing sewage.
(3) Even at this rate of application, the manure did not contaminate the irrigated grass with enteropathogenic bacteria after irrigation.
(4) Emissions from livestock, largely from burping cows and sheep and their manure, currently make up almost 15% of global emissions.
(5) Results of all the parameters tested showed markedly higher increases with farmyard manure than with nitrogenous fertilizer and in the control, without significant differences between the latter two.
(6) The concept of the epidemiology of Cryptococcus neoformans as the causative agent of cryptococcosis and as a basidiomycetous yeast is based on the fact that bird manure has been until now its only known habitat but not plant material which likewise harbours various nonpathogenic Cryptococcus species.
(7) Permethrin (0.05%) applied as a direct treatment to the hens resulted in slight reductions in numbers of Histeridae and Staphylinidae in the manure.
(8) Studies have shown that more natural soil amendments, like compost, manure and charcoal products, like those produced by the Biochar Company , can reduce atmospheric carbon and keep soils highly productive.
(9) Simultaneous processes of nitrification and denitrification were observed in optimal aerated manure similar to activated sludge processes.
(10) The studies were carried out in Erlenmeyer with parasite free liquid manure taken from a bovine cowshed.
(11) Let’s clean out the manure-filled stables of a political system that has become characterized by greed,” he wrote in his online declaration .
(12) The transport process of nutrients, leaf-manures and plant-protecting agents in plants was investigated by radioabsorption method.
(13) In this preliminary study, we have investigated the evolutionary and survival capacities of parasitic elements in liquid manure, their development potential after extraction and the destructive action of xylene in concentration of 1 p. 1000.
(14) Because swine manure slurry had been applied to the pasture where the sheep had grazed, a copper analysis was conducted on soil and forage samples from this field.
(15) Most farm problems with animal wastes occur in modern intensive livestock enterprises where manure is handled as a slurry.
(16) This is especially true for aeration and manuring of soil both of which stimulate unspecifically the proliferation and activity of microorganisms, and indirectly also a co-metabolism of xenobiotics.
(17) The compost piles consisted of ground corn husks, straw, and race horse manure.
(18) This made it necessary to compost the manure liquid and use it after subsidiary thermal treatment.
(19) It has been proved that the method can be successfully used for the determination of biochemical changes in microbe cultures, the soil, in composts, in farmyard manures etc.
(20) Daily water consumption increased 4-fold and daily manure wet weight increased two-fold in affected hens.