(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.
Rational
Definition:
(n.) A rational being.
(a.) Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
(a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
(a.) Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
(a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(7) Knowledge of these lesions could form the basis for establishing a useful and rational therapy for such cases.
(8) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(9) --The influence of the digestibility of the energy in the ration on the energetic retention effect of BFC is small.
(10) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
(11) But it can be a more rational and better developed approach to long-term care based on the experience and knowledge we have gained in the past 50 years.
(12) The authors further show how test results can be used rationally by clinicians by so-called threshold analysis.
(13) The aetiology remains at present uncertain and therefore rational therapeutic strategies are difficult to plan.
(14) The origin of these substances is unknown, but these findings provide a rational basis for trials of benzodiazepine-receptor antagonists in the management of this disorder.
(15) We reviewed our experience with 245 thyroidectomies to define the spectrum of hypocalcemia, elucidate the mechanisms of hypocalcemia, and formulate a rational basis for its management.
(16) The data obtained can be useful when choosing a rational method for the therapy of gastric scretory disorders.
(17) Willie Spies, its legal representative, said: "Rationality has to return to the debate.
(18) A 35-kg Duroc pig died 3 days after eating a ration containing aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, and G2.
(19) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(20) The resolution of the cellular events which underlie the development of pancreatitis in combination with the introduction of new therapeutic agents may enable a rational and safe protocol to be developed for the support of patients with pancreatitis.