(n.) The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.
(n.) The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.
(n.) That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.
(n.) A formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to English literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(2) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
(3) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(4) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(5) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(6) Thus, introduction of arginine in position 5 with a hydrophobic amino acid in position 6 is compatible with high potency in several biological systems and results in compounds with lowered potency to release histamine compared to homologous peptides with tyrosine in position 5 and D-arginine in position 6.
(7) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(8) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
(9) The effect of this curriculum is measured by statistical analysis of resident-generated aesthetic surgery cases in one year following the introduction of this curriculum into the teaching program.
(10) An experience in working out and introduction of a system of failure-free performance work as one of the most important steps in creating a complex system for the production quality control at the Leningrad combine "Krasnogvardeets" is described.
(11) In contrast, introduction of p21(Val-12) resulted in a prolonged delay (6 hours) of the effect which lasted for more than 24 hours.
(12) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
(13) Transtracheal oxygen (TTO) delivery for patients with chronic hypoxemia has been used increasingly since its introduction in 1982.
(14) A method for the introduction of side chains containing isonitrile (isocyanide, functional group) on the backbone of polysaccharides and other hydroxylic polymers was developed.
(15) Since its introduction by Wide, Bennich, and Johansson in 1967, the radioallergosorbent test (RAST) has been increasingly used for measurement of specific IgE antibodies.
(16) Presumable this medium was modified repeatedly after its introduction in bacteriology in 1918 by Gassner.
(17) Conjugates of the synthetic peptide with phycoerythrin (Mr about 150 kD) and with secretory IgA (Mr about 380 kD) were both found in the nucleus very shortly after their introduction into the cytoplasm.
(18) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(19) An arrest of a depressive syndrome in manic-depressive psychosis in old age can be attained by an introduction of 150-200 mg of azafen daily.
(20) The introduction of non-sedating H1-selective antihistamine drugs and local corticosteroids has been an important therapeutic advance.
Prolog
Definition:
(n. & v.) Prologue.
Example Sentences:
(1) They outline basic structures of Prolog and its type of function.
(2) Trees and recursivity allow a very efficient codification into LISP or PROLOG.
(3) The program, which was written in PROLOG and developed under MS-DOS Operating System, runs on IBM-compatible personal computers equipped with hard-disk and mouse.
(4) PROLOG is used as knowledge representation formalism.
(5) It is proposed that PROLOG is a suitable tool for symbolic image processing, once standard preprocessing has been done.
(6) The classification with PROLOG is then compared with the methods of logistic regression and with discriminant analysis.
(7) Several modules of the expert system were converted into Prolog programs and compiled, decreasing the running time significantly.
(8) An expert system (cadi-yac), written in Turbo-Prolog and working on IBM PC and Bacanal + (a management software of microbiology laboratory) was used to recognize and correct the phenotype of antibiotic sensibility.
(9) In this manner the computer-based system, implemented in Prolog, can be used to provide advice concerning insulin therapy by means of making qualitative predictions of patient outcome of blood glucose profile resulting from alternative insulin regimens.
(10) This paper deals with the application of an AI language, based on mechanical theorem prover (PROLOG), to deduce drug interactions.
(11) PROLOG (PROgramming in LOGic) is the declarative programming language at the heart of the Japanese fifth-generation computer project.
(12) Our first attempt consisted in representing knowledge in a rule-based PROLOG system.
(13) Using a high level computer language presently used in the artificial intelligence field (Prolog), a microcomputer based system for the differential diagnosis of dysmorphic syndromes is described.
(14) A program is presented that finds hydrophobic microdomains, making use of protein structure data stored in an object-oriented database and the list-processing features of Prolog.
(15) RHINOS is based on the above hypothesis as represented by the programming language Prolog, which is operative on an NEC PC-9801 microcomputer with reasonable CPU time.
(16) The expert system was written in Prolog and has been designed in such a way that it can be readily modified to take into account the state-to-state variability in eligibility requirements for AFDC Medicaid.
(17) A model of expert system using Prolog language was developed, to verify the coherence of the results of the antibiotic sensitivity test.
(18) We describe here an interactive program that generates files in Prolog clausal form from the most commonly distributed protein structural data collections.
(19) Preliminary results indicate a definite prologation of survival time, especially in cases of small-cell bronchogenic carcinoma.
(20) The database can be queried using the logic programming language Prolog or the query language Daplex.