(n.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
(2) Patients with grade 2 carcinoma could be separated into one subgroup with small nuclei (mean nuclear area less than or equal to 95 microns2) having a favorable outcome (5-year survival rate: 100%), and into another subgroup with large nuclei (mean nuclear area greater than 95 microns2) showing a worse prognosis (5-year survival rate: 63.2%) (Mantel-Cox, P = .01).
(3) Using the Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the odds ratio, no association was found between the number of moves and MS.
(4) A Mantel-Haenszel analysis of fetal irradiation subfactors indicated that most of the "extra" X-rayed cases in the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers were radiation induced.
(5) Thatcher was anti-feminist and a "psychological transvestite", Mantel said.
(6) We therefore analysed these patients' survivals by the unbiased Mantel-Byar method, using a comparison of multiple survival factors (Cox's technique).
(7) A significant dose-response based on a Mantel-Haenszel test of trend was observed for all leukemias.
(8) The DI had (restricted) additional prognostic value to the morphometric features (MPI plus DI Mantel-Cox 53.0, p less than 0.0001).
(9) The Mantel-Haenszel overall odds ratio adjusted for the current relative body weight for the abnormal fasting blood glucose level was 2.86 (95% C.I.
(10) Significant differences in mortality were seen between sham and immunized animals undergoing 100 or 75% splenectomy, while in the 50% group a difference was noted which did not reach statistical significance (Mantel-Cox log rank test).
(11) Although those GE80 had higher median lengths of stays (18 vs. 15 days, p = 0.013) and hospital charges ($7845 vs. $6414, p = 0.002) than those LT80, there was no difference 3-year survival curves (Mantel-Cox p = 0.7155).
(12) Median survival was 8.5 months (range = 1+ to 25) for Arm A versus 5 months (range = 1+ to 28+) for Arm B; this difference was not statistically significant (Breslow test: chi-square = 2.75, P = 0.097; Mantel-Cox: chi-square = 0.32, P = 0.56).
(13) The tests against single designs were carried out by means of Mantel tests.
(14) We show here that score statistics derived from the likelihood function in the latter approach are identical to the Mantel-Haenszel test statistics appropriate for the former approach.
(15) Like Mantel's adjusted chi-square statistic, the method adjusts at every event, based on the numbers of patients still at risk in each of the groups, and is thus able to show up time-dependent effects: factors can be seen to be relevant during certain periods of the study only.
(16) For the aneuploid and diploid cases, these figures came to 53.3% and 98% (Mantel-Cox: P less than 0.0001).
(17) Whatever your view of her she was a shaper of history.” Mantel said her story was an examination of why Thatcher “aroused such visceral passion in so many people”.
(18) Mantel’s new short story, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983 , prompted outrage after it was published online by the Guardian on Friday.
(19) The Breslow and Mantel-Cox statistics were used to compute survival (surgery-free) dichotomized by prognostic variables.
(20) The cumulative proportion of infants developing chlamydial conjunctivitis was 25% for both groups (P = 0.37, Mantel-Cox test).
Shelf
Definition:
(v. i.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
(v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
(v. i.) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
(v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(2) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
(3) The development of the hydrogelic occlusive device called the P-block is described including developmental steps of the design of the device as well as the experience gained concerning the hydrogel of the device, shelf life, animal and human toxicology, insertion techniques, analgesia, check-up for retention in situ, actual efficacy of the method, mode of action of the device, complication rates, patient acceptance, continuation rates, possible reversibility and future perspectives of the method.
(4) Formulation often has a dramatic effect on degradation of proteins during the freeze-drying process as well as impacting on the "shelf-life" stability of the freeze-dried product.
(5) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
(6) Patterns of HA distribution in anterior, posterior and presumptive soft palate were examined in the secondary palatal shelves of CD-1 mouse fetuses that were 30, 24 and 18 h prior to, and at the time of, shelf reorientation.
(7) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
(8) The absence of membrane proteins and chemical stability of SFH and phospholipids promises long shelf-life.
(9) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(10) Midline epithelial cells cease DNA synthesis 24-36 h before shelf elevation and contact, become active in the synthesis of cell surface glycoproteins, and subsequently manifest morphological signs of necrosis.
(11) It has been suggested that head posture changes, tongue movements and jaw opening reflexes are required to enable palatal shelf elevation to occur in normal cranio-facial development.
(12) Allografts are often freeze dried to increase shelf storage time and sterilized with ethylene oxide.
(13) The shelf procedure provides a buttress of bone for later reconstructive surgery such as cup or total hip arthroplasty.
(14) When tested in another task (recovering food pellets from a horizontal shelf accessible through a narrow slit below the ceiling of the test box) same rats displayed identical (45%) and opposite (15%) preference or were ambidextrous (40%).
(15) In one case this was a dense shelf-like mass of echoes extending downward from the basal portion of the interventricular septum toward the mid-portion of the anterior mitral leaflet with corresponding systolic anterior motion of the mitral leaflet.
(16) Eight brands of composite resin, including paste-paste, powder-liquid and light-activated systems, as well as three glass ionomer cements were evaluated over a period of twelve months with respect to shelf-life and suitability for use in a tropical environment.
(17) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
(18) The shelf life of the solid phase presensitized with monoclonal antibodies was 4 mth at -15 degrees C. DEN prototype viruses were still identified after storage at -15 degrees C for 1 yr or at room temperature for 1 mth.
(19) There are now standard off-the-shelf products that provide the kind of digital production tools that simply didn't exist five years ago.
(20) It is concluded that the shelf life of iced whole cod can be predicted using this model but not that of vacuum-packed fillets because of the greater variability of bacterial activity in packaged fish.