(v. t.) To form by communication of knowledge; to inform the mind of; to impart knowledge or information to; to enlighten; to teach; to discipline.
(v. t.) To furnish with directions; to advise; to direct; to command; as, the judge instructs the jury.
Example Sentences:
(1) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(2) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(3) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
(4) In Experiment II, identification training, consisting of instructions, praise, feedback, and practice was introduced after baseline.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
(7) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
(8) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
(9) The students were instructed to give up the discussion if they were convinced that the partner's position was a better solution.
(10) Patients should be carefully instructed in the optimal use of metered-dose inhalers, and some patients may benefit from use of tube-spacers.
(11) An investigation carried out over a period of two years demonstrated how these skills may be acquired using single sensory and bisensory modes of instruction.
(12) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
(13) We initiated a program of telephone CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) instruction provided by emergency dispatchers to increase the percentage of bystander-initiated CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
(14) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
(15) Five particular precedents stand out as instructive for informing contemporary policy responses in Europe and globally.
(16) A Rhesus monkey was trained to discriminate between 2 acoustic signals, preceded by visual cues, that instructed which of 2 movements to make.
(17) Results indicate that special instruction was responsible for improved understanding of the underlying disease and also improved compliance with physicians' prescriptions.
(18) To help overcome this problem, a stereoscopic slide-based auto-instructional program has been developed as a substitute for dissection.
(19) The management of painful, upper-limb disorders by 34 general practitioners (GPs) was examined 3 months before and 3 months after personal instruction of GPs by a consultant rheumatologist.
(20) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
Redirect
Definition:
(a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further, although lectin-dependent or redirected antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicities were observed for both freshly sorted lymphocytes of TCR alpha beta+CD4-8- fraction and in vitro established clones, NK-like activity was not detected.
(2) In a 4-h assay against several different nitrophenyl-modified targets, the heteroconjugated antibody (anti-CD3-anti-nitrophenyl) redirected cytolytic potential of 72-h activated CD4+ T cells was inhibited by the continuous presence of actinomycin D, cycloheximide, and EGTA, but not mitomycin C, cyclosporin A, or cholera toxin (CT).
(3) The Z-plasties facilitate effective dissection and redirection of the palatal muscles to produce an overlapping muscle sling and lengthen the velum without using tissue from the hard palate, which permits hard palate closure without pushback or lateral relaxing incisions.
(4) Freedom of information requests submitted to NHS primary care trusts (PCTs) by False Economy , the TUC-backed research group, show how many GPs are involved in setting up CCGs; how much time each is spending preparing the new set-up rather than treating patients; and the cost to the NHS of their being redirected into managerial tasks.
(5) I can’t think of any reason to justify a 1.5% levy on businesses for childcare purposes.” The Australian Industry Group also called for a clarification that the levy was not going to be redirected.
(6) People ask me what I’m going to do and I say back to them: ‘No, the question is what are you going to do?’” With her personal relationships rebuilt and her energies redirected, Baez has been able to devote time to her career.
(7) A needs assessment survey was originally conducted at the George Washington University Health Plan in 1981 and repeated in 1983 for evaluation and redirection.
(8) Rising numbers of consumers are finding they are subject to thieves who tamper with their gas and electricity meters to redirect some of their supply.
(9) Small colloidal particulates (150 nm and below, in diameter) can be redirected specifically to the rabbit bone marrow following intravenous administration by coating their surface with the block co-polymer poloxamer-407, a non-ionic surfactant.
(10) In order to accomplish health system reform, governments must develop new policies to redirect or change the present course of the system.
(11) This study suggests that drug rehabilitation followed by redirection into another specialty may be the most prudent course for the anesthesiology trainee who abuses parenteral opioids.
(12) There are therefore huge economic benefits, as well as social benefits, in redirecting government spending away from prisons and towards community-based initiatives aimed at addressing the underlying causes of crime that are just a fraction of the cost of prisons.
(13) It allows correction of certain forms of postural imbalance and pelvic obliquity, as well as allowing an optimal and variable amount of acetabular redirection.
(14) Grey water is simply the water used in washing dishes, clothes and showering that is allowed to cool, then saved from going down the plug hole and redirected to the garden – either by bucket, or specially installed outlet pipes.
(15) A comparison of the present findings with previous studies on saccadic eye movements in primates and combined eye and head movements in cats suggests striking similarities in the ways in which tectal activity specifies a redirection in gaze to such dissimilar motor effectors as the eyes and head.
(16) It can then redirect attention and further workup to those areas not originally surveyed.
(17) It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things.” Indigenous prisoner who killed himself wasn't in a 'safe' cell despite being at risk Read more He said a Labor government would fund three trials – in a city, a regional town and a remote community – of “justice reinvestment” programs, “redirecting funds spent on justice system to prevention and diversionary programs to address underlying causes of offending with disproportionately high levels of incarceration”.
(18) Keep the redirect, lose the licence and have .cn go dark, or look at a different option.
(19) We hypothesized that in unilateral lung injury, bilateral hypoxic ventilation would induce vasoconstriction in the normal lung, redirect blood flow to the injured lung, and cause enhanced edema formation.
(20) The model is consistent with a strategy in which precision is achieved by periodic discrete actions which redirect the moving arm in order to bring the hand closer to the target.