(n.) A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slope conductances, determinable for substates II, V and VI (4.8, 11.7 and 14.0, respectively), are also consistent with six conductance substates which are integer multiples of a smallest conductance (state I).
(2) It is clear from these measurements (1) that there is no primary kinetic isotope effect and hence that hydrogen abstraction is not rate determining to the exchange and (2) that only one (as the closest integer) methyl hydrogen exchanges per turnover.
(3) For the normal ears, the psychometric functions were nonmonotonic, showing minima for gap durations corresponding to integer multiples of the signal period (n ms, where n is a positive integer) and maxima for durations corresponding to (n - 0.5) ms. For the impaired ears, the psychometric functions showed only small (nonsignificant) nonmonotonicities.
(4) The molecular weight of izupeptin A was determined to be 1,475 by SI (secondary ion)-MS (integer molecular weight, 1,473), and it contains two chlorine atoms.
(5) The first study used binary integer programming with a sample of 2343 children evaluated with the DDST in Denver's Neighborhood Health Program.
(6) The insertion, which splits the original telomere and causes a significant reduction in the size of the telomeric structure, is shown to consist of an integer number of subtelomeric repeats typical of P.berghei, flanked on both sides by telomere-derived motifs.
(7) It was found that the duration of short pauses was a multiple integer of the mean interspike interval of surrounding discharges.
(8) The development of a method for dialysis planning serves as a platform to demonstrate the use of integer programming to support decision making.
(9) For systematic sectioning with a random start, it has been recently shown that V is unbiased when m, the ratio between projected object length and section distance, is an integer number (Cruz-Orive 1985).
(10) Among test integers 6 through 33, the number 30, approximating the 29.53-day lunar-synodic month, was consistently and statistically a best-fit multiple to the data.
(11) The results support those of simplified models in showing that drug toxicity to the host may be minimized when the dosing interval is an integer multiple of the average cycle time of the host susceptible cells.
(12) A formal approach to incorporating travel times into dialysis planning, based on the formulation and solution of a mixed-integer programming model, is presented.
(13) Each subject's data were analyzed by spectral analysis (based on the fast Fourier transform), which detected apparent LRC (rates within 1% of a single-digit integer ratio) in 12 (40%) of the 30 test settings.
(14) We also show how the two-dimensional distribution of the noise variance in a CT image is a weighted superposition of images obtained by backprojecting integer powers of the noiseless projection data corresponding to the scanned object.
(15) For the integer data, there were no significant differences in speech intelligibility for 8- to 16-bit conversion.
(16) A non-linear integer programming procedure is used to find reasonable solutions to this problem.
(17) We have combined these results into a Law of Mortality, based on a Weibull function containing only integer parameters and constants, which is valid for all human age-related disease mortality.
(18) For instance, eye movements were made across an integer and odd number of checks in order to mimic the pattern reversal.
(19) minimal nonrandomness) composition, admitting non-integer values of ni; the integer level with optimal integer composition; the noise level, represented by a typical random cain; and the real protein level.
(20) These models predict that toxicity to the host of cell-cycle-phase-specific drugs can be minimised if the dosing interval is an integer multiple of the average intermitotic interval of the susceptible host cells.
Parity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(3) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(4) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(5) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
(6) The epidemiological (e.g., effects of age, parity, and lactating status of the women) and programmatic aspects (e.g., provider factors and timing of insertion) related to the performance of this device are also reviewed in this paper.
(7) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
(8) The world has also met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water , and it has achieved parity in primary education between girls and boys .
(9) At parity 2, women with children of the same sex time a third birth more rapidly than women with a boy and a girl.
(10) The same evaluation in 76 nonrandom contemporary controls matched for risk factors, maternal age, and parity has shown that more than 50% had a cervix dilated more than 2 cm, 38% had a cervix shorter than 0.5 cm, and 24% had rupture of the fetal membranes.
(11) The euro’s weakness – and its move to near-parity with the dollar – has come after a period of low and even negative interest rates as well as a programme of monetary stimulus measures from the European Central Bank.
(12) No significant differences in age and parity were found between the users in the two groups.
(13) The BMD of the lumbar spine and femoral neck were not affected by parity (P = 0.08 and P = 0.87, respectively).
(14) We have also shown the influence of age, but not of parity, of foster mothers on DMBA-induced transmammary carcinogenesis in F1 individuals.
(15) The two groups were comparable with respect to maternal age, parity, gestational age at diagnosis, socioeconomic level and educational level.
(16) Urea decreased in goats at early and mid-lactation directly proportional to parity so that the higher the parity the more the decrease.
(17) The adrenocortical response and open field behavior of a random sample of 37 individually confined gestating sows in different parities were tested around day 85 of pregnancy.
(18) The length of postpartum amenorrhea is quite variable, and depends on several factors, including maternal age and parity, and the duration and frequency of breastfeeding.
(19) Most studies of utilization of mental health services by ethnic groups have used parity as a measure of whether members of ethnic groups are receiving a fair share of services.
(20) The occurrence was highest, the degree most severe, and the location exclusively myocardial in C3H and C3Hf mated females, irrespective of parity, whereas virginal females of these strains were entirely free of disease even after administration of exogenous progesterone.