(n.) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
(n.) That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted
(n.) Precept; information; teachings.
(n.) Direction; order; command.
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.
Shader
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, shades.
Example Sentences:
(1) In theory, the six extra CUs give Sony's PS4 a 50% advantage in terms of raw shader performance (for example, lighting and other graphics effects) over the Xbox One.
(2) Sony’s PS4 has a 50% advantage in terms of raw shader performance It has already been noted that, on paper at least, the PS4 has a more powerful combination of processor and graphics capabilities than the Xbox One .
(3) Noting that it is not just pure pixel count that this effects, Morgan explained that the overall graphical quality was affected: “As well as cutting down on jagged edges, this reduces the amount of pixel shimmer we see in motion on complex shaders or thin geometry, with distant power lines, scaffolding and other elements with sub-pixel elements creating unwanted flickering on Xbox One,” he said.
(4) Deep brown discolouration in two teeth could not be adequately matched with the opaquer and shader pastes supplied with the kit.