(n.) An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
(n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
(n.) Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(3) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(4) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(5) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(6) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(7) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(8) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(9) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(10) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(12) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
(13) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(14) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
(15) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
(16) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
(17) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
(18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(19) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(20) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.
Subroutine
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
(2) The subroutine is well suited for statistical programs.
(3) A BASIC program provided a number of options while machine language subroutines generated interstimulus interval (ISI) and peristimulus time (PST) histograms.
(4) The data structure is developed in the C programming language and a suite of ANSI standard C subroutines that make up a run-time data structure management system is provided.
(5) A subroutine called DESOL for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations of the type arising in biological simulation problems is described.
(6) Additional safety features are provided in the computer-infusion pump subroutine, which cause alarms to be activated if computer-pump communication fails to occur within a specified time period.
(7) Many of these programs may be used as subroutines in analyzing data derived from experiments in cytogenetics as well as other fields.
(8) The present program consists of two main subroutines: Pulmonary Gas Exchange and Tissue Gas Exchange.
(9) One of the subroutines determines the pH, gradient slope and buffering capacity at any location of the gradient and includes a facility to estimate the pI of proteins from the composition of their primary structure.
(10) The least-squares subroutine is designed to fit retrospective pharmacokinetic curves and can generate the so-called population pharmacokinetic parameters using the Standard Two-Stage method.
(11) We believe that at this level in the brain, the subroutines of grooming, scratching and yawning are integrated into one skin maintenance behaviour.
(12) The pharmacokinetic models can be defined in the form of Laplace-transformed equations as a subroutine in MULTI(FILT).
(13) A novel algorithm and subroutine is presented for encoding and decoding calendar dates.
(14) This paper presents a set of easy-to-use FORTRAN subroutines that perform automatic derivative evaluation.
(15) Subroutine options permitted the grouping of data into experiment, record, and event numbers.
(16) The decoding skill appears to be a subroutine and may, in dyslexia, operate as a limiting factor that affects reading comprehension.
(17) When a malaria subroutine was included in the model, the calculations showed that all the theoretical releases greatly reduced the number of malaria-infective females and therefore would have a profound effect on transmission of the disease.
(18) The program is provided with a special subroutine which gives a quantification of the rhythm and regularity of the response through the histograms of the ratios between the duration of successive intersaccadic intervals and between the amplitudes of successive fast components.
(19) The programming philosophy is described and a variety of BASIC subroutines and formulae useful to the obstetrical sonologist are listed.
(20) Spurious profiles, caused by sectioning at bifurcations, can be overridden by an operator-interactive subroutine.