(n.) Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
(n.) Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
(n.) Induction.
(v. t.) To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(4) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(5) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(6) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(8) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(9) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
(10) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
(11) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
(12) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(13) The influence of the hexylsalicylic acid (2) on the pharmacokinetic of the quinine (1), was studied using rabbits.
(14) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(15) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(16) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
(17) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(18) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(19) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(20) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
Poser
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) She looks panicky for a moment, at the prospect of a particularly tricky financial poser...
(2) Levy, W. Heller, M. Banich, and L. Burton (1983, Brain and Cognition, 2, 404-419) and involved judging which of two chimeric faces appeared happier, in which the two chimeras were mirror images of each other and each chimera consisted of a smiling half-face joined at the midline to a neutral half-face of the same poser.
(3) The clinical diagnosis was based on criteria established by Poser et al.
(4) Using the Poser criteria, 23 patients were diagnosed as having definite MS and one patient as probable MS. Cerebrospinal fluid biochemistry upgraded the categorisation from probable to definite MS in 16 of these 24 patients (66%).
(5) That was the question posed to Jagland following the announcement - the question-poser suggested that Spain and Ireland might be somewhat miffed at the decision too.
(6) The results of the recording of the Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) in 32 patient with "definite" multiple sclerosis (MS) according to Poser et al.
(7) The natural history and the evolution of the concept of Schilder's diffuse sclerosis have been described by Poser and van Bogaert in 1956 and there is really not much to add to their analysis.
(8) Results from magnetic resonance imaging, evoked potentials and cerebrospinal fluid investigations were used to reclassify 13 of 15 patients with clinically "possible" or "probable" multiple sclerosis to a higher level using Poser's criteria.
(9) After this study we consider the convenience to have both MR and EP positive to give a patient the diagnostic of clinically definite with paraclinic support (category 1.b of Poser).
(10) The patients with new lesions fulfil the criteria for clinically probable MS (Poser et al., 1983).
(11) This study examined both perceiver and poser asymmetries in processing facial emotion.
(12) But if this year's poser for the MPC is to know how much electronic money to push into the economy, next year's may be how to effect an exit strategy.
(13) We then used the results to categorize the patients according to the Poser criteria of multiple sclerosis.
(14) Posers were requested to produce happy and sad emotional expressions, deliberately accentuated on the left and right sides of the face.
(15) In patients with a probable diagnosis (according to Poser) abnormalities were present in 41.6%, when the diagnosis was certain, in 90.3%.
(16) Trans people transition in order to be the gender we feel inside and, while there may come a time when posers will appropriate trendy trans culture for profit, right now, there’s no advantage to transitioning when you’re not trans.
(17) Previous research has suggested that in face-to-face contexts perceivers are biased to judge the side of the poser's face to their left as more similar to the full face than the side to their right.
(18) and the sociological poser of "the benefit of the community."
(19) In an attempt to establish the efficacy of the most recent diagnostic tests--magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and multimodal evoked potentials (EP), 28 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) (1.a Poser's categories) were studied.
(20) In this study a population of 50 persons suffering clinically definite MS (Poser's criteria) and 50 healthy controls matched with the patients in sex, age and cultural level were submitted to a neuropsychological test battery (NPTB).