(1) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(2) At this point that is largely an irrelevance,” he said.
(3) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
(4) Mammary tumors in dogs related to oral contraceptives are now widely considered to be irrelevant as a model or predictor for human tumors.
(5) We conclude that transformation by transfection with human tumor DNA does not require persistence of the BKV viral genome, suggesting that either BKV virus was irrelevant to original oncogenesis, in analogy with models proposed by others for herpesvirus oncogenesis.
(6) The search for the Na-K-ATPase inhibitor has been hampered by the lack of specificity of most assays which demonstrate the presence of many irrelevant Na-K-ATPase inhibitors.
(7) Ratios of MoAb 273-34A to a nonspecific, irrelevant MoAb 135-14 are 250 to 285 times higher in the lung than in the serum.
(8) But what has really been lost is a sense of the density and interdependence of human life, which can neither be reduced to a formula nor brushed aside as irrelevant.
(9) It isn't, of course; but to make the primary complaint that he is using his view of the first world war to make political points is asking us to make history irrelevant to all but academics.
(10) As arousal level increases, so does selectivity, and attention is diverted away from irrelevant task components.
(11) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
(12) The actual rights and wrongs of it are almost irrelevant.
(13) When the three-tone patterns were embedded in longer sequences of seven or eight tones, the identification performance was best when the pattern occurred at the beginning or the end of the sequence, and when the range of frequencies from which the irrelevant background tones were chosen lay outside the range of pattern frequencies.
(14) The “right to be forgotten” ruling allows EU residents to request the removal of search results that they feel link to outdated or irrelevant information about themselves on a country-by-country basis.
(15) Using this methodology, no non-allogeneic reactive T cells remain in the responding cells: after restimulation by autologous LCL, no IL-2-SC could be seen and no cytotoxic activity could be observed against autologous, irrelevant or LAK sensitive targets.
(16) Blocking is an established animal learning procedure, thought by some researchers to reflect selective attention; decreased blocking indicates increased processing of irrelevant stimuli.
(17) There was a significant but clinically irrelevant increase in mean pulse rate before and 1 min after early bronchoscopy.
(18) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
(19) The precise identities of the alleles are irrelevant to the linkage analysis so long as identity-by-descent and linkage-phase information are preserved.
(20) And the fact that the disclosures have led to the highest journalism rewards, have led to historic reforms in the US and around the world – all of that would be irrelevant in a prosecution under the espionage laws in the United States.” Snowden also could face an untold number of additional charges if he returned to the United States.
Orthogonal
Definition:
(a.) Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Specifically, we apply techniques of data preprocessing, orthogonality constraints, and validation of solutions in a complete TC analysis, for the first time using actual MEP data.
(2) In 92 percent of the patients the thoraco-abdominal aorta and its branches were well documented on 2 orthogonal projections performed in one single session.
(3) Orthogonal field electrophoresis of the eleven strains still carrying pBR322 sequences revealed at least seven different integrating sites for the transforming DNA.
(4) Similar results were obtained for either direction of motion (orthogonal to a cell's optimum orientation) and for either polarity of contrast (dark centre, light ends or the reverse).
(5) Orthogonal regression analysis of the GC method (y) and the CDC reference method (X) resulted in y = 0.996 X + 0.000 with a correlation coefficient of 0.999.
(6) Three-dimensional analysis of patient position over an 8-week course of daily radiation treatment has been performed for nine patients from digitization of anatomic points identified on orthogonal radiographs.
(7) Spatial and lateral R-wave amplitudes were derived from the orthogonal Frank (XYZ) lead system.
(8) An airjet perturbation device is attached to the wrist with a special cuff, and provides high-frequency stochastic perturbations in potentially three orthogonal directions.
(9) Rather than individual voxels, a new exact algorithm is presented that considers the CT data as consisting of the intersection volumes of three orthogonal sets of equally spaced, parallel planes.
(10) A cortical patch representing a given orientation was regularly surrounded by both neighboring and orthogonal orientations.
(11) Inactive dummies with the same dimensions as the radioactive sources are loaded into the capsules before obtaining the orthogonal radiographs.
(12) Trend analysis of the fatigue patterns revealed that a cubic orthogonal polynomial equation was sufficient to describe the profile of MVC decrement for all conditions.
(13) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(14) Thus, the axial and orientational components are orthogonal (Wörgötter and Eysel 1989).
(15) In other experiments, 2 or 3 rows of tracer injections were made at different dorsoventral levels of AI, over a large frequency range (5-38 kHz); each injection row was oriented orthogonal to the IFCs and contained a different tracer.
(16) Our calculations also predict a different trap stability in the directions orthogonal and parallel to the polarization direction of the incident light.
(17) We describe a nearly orthogonal two-level design that involves use of a weighted analysis to estimate drift and very low amounts of sample-to-sample carryover simultaneously.
(18) The perceived cyclopean motion was examined under five different conditions, in which the cyclopean pattern was moving either up or down, the luminant dots were: (1) moving in the cyclopean direction; (2) moving opposite to the cyclopean direction; (3) moving orthogonal to the cyclopean direction, (4) stationary; or (5) dynamic (dots uncorrelated in successive frames).
(19) Regulatory and B-lymphocytes showed a low orthogonal light scatter signal, whereas cytotoxic lymphocytes identified with leu-7, leu-11 and leu-15 revealed a large orthogonal light scatter signal.
(20) The orthogonal catheter has three sets of four electrodes spaced evenly around the circumference.