(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.
Untrained
Definition:
(a.) Not trained.
(a.) Not trainable; indocile.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(2) Such deficits are likely to be 'sensory deficits' since visual information from the eye goes to the damaged rotundus when tested with the untrained eye.
(3) Muscle samples were obtained from the gastrocnemius of 17 female and 23 male track athletes, 10 untrained women, and 11 untrained men.
(4) A randomized experimental design compared trained and untrained residents' (n = 48) performances with a simulated patient presenting with atypical chest pain and psychosocial distress.
(5) Very few have been through a police academy and most are entirely untrained.
(6) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(7) Exercise electrocardiograms (Ex ECG) were performed on both trained and untrained adolescent males to determine whether a difference exists between the normal adolescent and normal adult male.
(8) The data revealed that (a) adequate verbal instruction had a modest but significant effect on the subjects' blending performance (Experiment 1), and (b) training without pictorial prompts resulted in better blending of trained and untrained C-VC items than training with pictorial prompts (Experiment 2).
(9) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(10) State enrolled nurses were found to be significantly less satisfied with their work than registered nurses or untrained nurse assistants.
(11) Plasma glucose concentration also declined (15-25%) during exercise in the trained subjects after 4 and 6 h of fasting (P less than 0.05) but did not change in the untrained subjects.
(12) Learning effects were more pronounced peripherally than paracentrally and "untrained" fields characteristically showed concentric contraction with numerous points with low sensitivity peripherally.
(13) In India, and other developing countries at least 80% of deliveries take place at home by untrained birth attendants.
(14) 1.03pm GMT Asked if heads in Singapore would hire untrained teachers, Gove says in Singapore heads have a great deal of freedom over recruitment.
(15) The questionnaire data revealed that pretrained fathers diapered and fed the newborn significantly more often than the untrained fathers.
(16) In untrained animals liver glycogen concentrations continued to drop for 60 min beyond the end of exercise.
(17) Generalized results indicated that some human services professionals were no more or less sensitive than the untrained to the effects of abusive behavior.
(18) The traditional measure of endurance fitness, maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) and the individual relationships between blood lactate concentration and submaximal VO2 were determined during stepping for 10 untrained males.
(19) For one experiment, three groups of subjects (untrained, cyclists, and weight lifters) performed maximal one- or two-limb isometric tasks for which the two-limb combinations were either both legs or the left arm and the right leg.
(20) Such difference could still be seen after S was recalculated as SN by using normalized ventilation for 70 kg body weight, while there were no significant differences in the S and SN between baseline and repeated studies in the untrained group.