(n.) A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
(2) When 352 joules or more delivered energy was applied per site, lesions were located at 18 of 28 (64%) possible sites.
(3) Every last joule of Tony Abbott’s political energy, every last howl of his most committed supporters, was derived from what philosopher Lauren Berlant once called “the scandal of ex-privilege”, including “rage at the stereotyped peoples who have appeared to change the political rules of social membership, and, with it, a desperate desire to return to an order of things deemed normal”.
(4) The efficacy of electroimpulsive therapy with low energy discharges (up to 50 joules) in various paroxysmal arrhythmias was studied.
(5) Firing of the weapon in its original state yielded kinetic energies of the missiles well below the legal limit of 7,5 Joule.
(6) The two SI units are the Gray (Gy), which indicates an actual dose received, and a Sievert (Sv), which is the dose equivalent, a joule of energy per kilogram.
(7) theta PA (the power asymptote, in watts (W] reflects an inherent characteristic of aerobic energy production during exercise, above which only a finite amount of work (W', in joules) can be performed, regardless of the rate at which the work is performed.
(8) To characterize and compare the pathologic, hemodynamic and electrocardiographic changes of both transcatheter laser and electrical energy on ventricle, 36 subendocardial myocardium lesions were induced at energy 60, 120 and 240 Joules by either transcatheter laser irradiation or electrical shock in 7 anesthetized dogs.
(9) Twenty-five Joules of direct current and 150 to 300 J of radiofrequency energy were delivered via catheters to the myocardium of anesthetized dogs.
(10) Up to 564 joules per minute could be removed from the system.
(11) In 84 patients, the mean number of DFT trials was 5.27; the mean number of joules received was 275.0.
(12) Biphasic and uniphasic shocks were compared at 14 joules.
(13) The masticatory ability, defined as the joules of work performed, was calculated based on the concentration of pigment leaked from the crushed granules during the process of mastication.
(14) Acute myocardial necrosis was produced in 27 anesthetized dogs by repetitive DC 75 joule shock delivered with one electrode in the left ventricular cavity and the other on the left chest wall.
(15) Fifteen of 17 totally occluded arteries had multiple recanalization channels created following total energy delivery of 40-1,016 Joules per segment with no angiographic or histologic evidence of laser perforation.
(16) A tip-off from Rob Joules of the North Devon National Trust alerted me to the Slow Adventure Co , and it was a revelation.
(17) Twenty dogs were anesthetized with halothane and given two transthoracic countershocks of 295 delivered joules each after drug or vehicle treatment.
(18) Single 200 joules DC shock caused complete AV block.
(19) For the laser fusions, argon laser energy was applied to the adventitial surface of the vessel with a 300 micron fiberoptic probe with 0.5 W power, 1100 joules per square centimeter energy fluence, and 150 second exposure per 1 cm length.
(20) The mean defibrillator charge time was 5.5 seconds to 50 joules and 9.3 seconds to 360 joules.
Watt
Definition:
(n.) A unit of power or activity equal to 107 C.G.S. units of power, or to work done at the rate of one joule a second. An English horse power is approximately equal to 746 watts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(2) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
(3) Twenty watts constant wave Nd-YAG laser operating at 1.06 micron was enough to produce complete A-V block in approximately 15 sec.
(4) The data shows the power (watts) delivered by the monopolar probe to be approximately six times that of the bipolar probe.
(5) Furthermore, a significant correlation between maximal creatine kinase levels and plasma ANF levels at a 75-watt workload and a significant inverse correlation between left ventricular ejection fraction and plasma ANF levels at a 75-watt workload were observed.
(6) This is a report on our experience with the EPICS C (Coultronics) cytometric flux apparatus, a screening cell analyzer, employing a laser ray (2 or 5 watts); we obtained good results to analyze immunologically-tagged mononuclear blood cells with or without prior separation: for rhythm, repeatability, and contamination.
(7) Power (25 watts) was delivered via the Primus (Technomatix) transrectal microwave applicator with simultaneous cooling of the rectal mucosa (between 12 and 14C).
(8) When Watts Bar 2 is fully operational, it will be the 100th operating nuclear power plant in the US, the country with the most nuclear power stations in the world.
(9) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
(10) Busy job so no good for @ patrickwintour — Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) June 14, 2012 3.18pm: Cameron says it would be "overbureaucratic" to make a note of every time a politician met an editor.
(11) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
(12) I can't make myself into a big, powerful rider who can put out 300 watts per hour.
(13) Like a great many people in what was at that time an industrial country, I grew up in a landscape that was interestingly pockmarked with successive eras of exploitation, and all of it so commonplace that beyond a mention of its origins, Watt's engine or Crompton's spinning mule, it never found a place in the history books.
(14) What was it that they saw or heard that threatened our society,” Labor MP Tim Watts asked in response to the Christensen motion.
(15) The application of argon blue-green laser treatment at 0.1 watt for 60 seconds at two adjacent points on a feeder vessel was found to give rise to permanent vascular occlusion without causing complications.
(16) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
(17) In an open-paired comparison, sunscreens with low, medium and high SPF were examined under identical test conditions using either a 150-watt xenon-arc solar simulator or a set of four 300-watt Osram Ultravitalux bulbs as the UV source.
(18) Trade union membership and political affiliation are classified as sensitive information by the law and require a greater level of protection than simply personal information,” Watts said.
(19) To determine the effects and the underlying mechanisms of sudden rise of impedance during radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation, 60 RF applications were delivered to isolated preparations of ventricular myocardium at three different power levels (mean: 3.7, 11.3, 19.3 watts).
(20) The authors made a histopathological study of 53 haemorrhagic ulcers of the gastric mucosa of the dog, photocoagulated using an Argon laser apparatus (delivering a power of 6 watts at the tip of the fibre).