(n.) A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Review of major works on syphilis in the English language and files maintained since 1971, supplemented by a systematic search using Index Medicus and MEDLARS.
(2) Recurring bibliographies are by-products of the MEDLARS system which are prepared by the National Library of Medicine in collaboration with nonprofit scientific and professional societies and institutions and government agencies that represent a specialty area of biomedical research or practice.
(3) This conclusion was based on a comparison of MEDLARS and manual searches for articles on random clinical trials in liver disease for the period 1966-1982.
(4) The MEDLARS search identified only 107 of 208 RCTs found manually in the 36 journals, an efficiency rate of 51%.
(5) Searcher requirements and capabilities in moving from a batch-mode linear operation to the iterative searching and retrieval provided by the random access mode of MEDLARS II are discussed.
(6) The Index of Rheumatology is a newly-developed, recurring bibliography produced by the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine.
(7) Plans for the future include the enlargement of the UCLA MEDLARS staff and extension of search service to a larger geographical area.
(8) English language literature search using Australian Medlars Service (1977-1989), manual search of journals and review of bibliographies in identified articles.
(9) Recently, the usefulness of MEDLARS computer searches in biomedical research was questioned; the conclusion was drawn that to completely capture a specific population of articles, the MEDLARS system was inadequate.
(10) The MEDLARS database, from 1966 to the present, under the terms military personnel, veterans, veterans' disability claims, combat disorders and prisoners (matched against war); databases of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Victoria) and the Central Library, Commonwealth Department of Defense, under the term "prisoner of war"; and the microfiche listings of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, under "prisoner of war" and "repatriation".
(11) MEDLINE was the MEDLARS database most frequently used, representing 82.83% of total use.
(12) How MEDLARS I was approached by NLM is discussed first and its objectives used for comparison.
(13) HISTLINE, the MEDLARS file on the history of the health sciences, was analyzed to determine predominant areas of historical research and publication in the years 1970-1982, as reflected in this database produced within the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine.
(14) Major and costly revisions would be needed to adapt the large MEDLARS system to the smaller IBM 1401 and 1410 computers.
(15) Parallel searches with other MEDLARS installations, comparisons of MEDLARS and manual Index Medicus searches, and other search activities are reported.
(16) The bibliographic retrieval service based on the JICST On-line Information System (JOIS-I) has been available through leased line since 1976 and now also through dial-up line, which covers five data bases: the JICST bibliographic and on-going research information files, CA Condensates, MEDLARS, and TOXLINE files.
(17) This paper reviews NLM's programs in relation to international medical information exchange: International MEDLARS Centers, collaboration with WHO and PAHO, NLM Special Foreign Currency Program, and development of the NLM collection.
(18) A comparison of the MEDLARS data base as it is currently available from the National Library of Medicine and Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS), Inc., is presented in chart format, and some major capability differences between the two systems are highlighted.
(19) The two decades since the introduction of MEDLARS and the passage of the Medical Library Assistance Act have been especially eventful in the history of the National Library of Medicine.
(20) This paper supplements information given in earlier papers on the UCLA MEDLARS Search Station.
Pedlar
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pedler
Example Sentences:
(1) In court, Mr Sheridan described the News of the World as "pedlars of falsehood, promoters of untruth, concerned only with sales, circulation and profit, not people's lives and truth".
(2) Misinformation pedlars appear to be shy woodland animals.
(3) His career as a pedlar of privacy stretches back into the 1990s, when he worked assiduously for the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the News of the World.
(4) The pedlars of fake news are corroding democracy | Andrew Smith Read more On the one hand, the primacy of the market in the economic and social developments falling under the rubric of the fourth industrial revolution necessarily predispose elites to what we might call a managerial version of representative democracy – a system in which politicians see their first and foremost responsibility as ensuring voters don’t interfere with “sound economic management”.
(5) The campaign has caused alarm in the west and rights groups accuse Duterte of turning a blind eye to a wave of extrajudicial killings by police, mostly of low-level pedlars.
(6) Eventually the change will have to happen, with similar restrictions on advertising, sponsorship, display and accessibility to those imposed on the tobacco pedlars.
(7) Giulio had been out doing field work, talking to street pedlars, maybe six or seven times,” says one of his close friends in Cairo.
(8) Bogus claims about Barack Obama’s citizenship, say, or Britain’s payments to the European Union, are exposed, yet the claim-pedlars breeze on, unimpeded – they win.
(9) In 1872, the writer Augustus Mayhew appeared before his local magistrates charged with assaulting a female pedlar, and defended himself by pointing out that sometimes "he had as many as 38 persons in one day" knocking at his door.
(10) This neglect has helped open the gates to extremists and pedlars of hatred who have been allowed to prosper.
(11) One of the things that has happened in Egypt in the past few years, which we didn’t fully recognise, is that the street pedlars are frequently used as police informants,” said one Cambridge scholar, who preferred not to be named.
(12) Treatments included antiseptic solutions by 67 women (Dettol, Listerine, pHisohex); antibiotics by 31 (19 from drug stores or pedlars, 12 medically prescribed or injected); contraceptive diaphragms by 16.
(13) Since Duterte came to office seven months ago, thousands of suspected low-level pedlars but also alleged drug users have been gunned down in his war on drugs.
(14) Valerie Pedlar Southport • In connection with recent discussion on averages ( Letters, 2 & 3 December), we may conclude that in one respect Goering was above average (just taking into account the matter of size), Himmler was similar, Hitler was average, while poor old Goebbels was firmly below average.
(15) I am a pedlar of experiences that will end your childhood, and smother your innocence.
(16) Possibly the rival gossip pedlar with whom he had the most spats about exclusivity, dignity and prestige was Ross Benson (obituary, March 10 2005), who said of him with feline and persuasive malice: "He is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator."