(n.) The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(2) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(3) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(4) If, indeed, there is an immunologic basis for pre-eclampsia, it is more subtle than the methodology used in this study is capable of detecting.
(5) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
(6) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(7) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
(8) Thus, this culture system should be helpful in establishing standard methodology for in vitro work with P. carinii.
(9) There was one (4%) maternal death, consistent with predicted mortality (TRISS methodology).
(10) Recently developed analytical methodology permits large numbers of human urine samples to be analyzed and a wide variation is observed.
(11) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.
(12) Further it is argued that there is a need to amalgamate the substantive, conceptual, and methodological facets of research.
(13) Current methodology for the in vitro determination of aortic and large artery stiffness is reviewed and involves three approaches: (1) the estimation of distensibility by pulse wave velocity measurement; (2) the estimation of distensibility from the fractional diameter change of a given arterial segment by imaging techniques (e.g., angiography, Doppler ultrasound) against pressure change; (3) the estimation of compliance by determining volume change against pressure change in the arterial system during diastolic runoff from the Windkessel model of the circulation.
(14) For the purpose of contributing methodologically to experimental research on epilepsy, we investigated whether a difference exists in kindling development between acute and chronic preparations using identical species of animals, kindled brain tissues, stimulus intervals, and intensities.
(15) 3. an up-to-date review of the principal methods and systems used to measure the sedimentation rate--Automation of the Westergren initial methodology.
(16) Such lack of attention to matters of scientific methodology does not bode well for the advancement of knowledge in this area.
(17) Methodological difficulties inherent in incidence and prevalence studies of native Canadians are examined.
(18) The methodology of microbiological evaluation of disinfectants in permanently being questioned because the laboratorial protocols do not correspond to the real conditions under which these products are used.
(19) A specific high-affinity site for [125I]angiotensin II was measured both by traditional methodology using whole cells and by autoradiography.
(20) For each ejaculate the ratio of X- and Y-bearing sperm was analysed before and after sephadex filtration using three different methodologies: sperm chromosome analysis after fusion of human sperm with hamster oocytes, deoxyribonucleic acid analysis using the Y-preferential probe pS4 and the fluorescent Y-body test.
Modality
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being modal.
(n.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
(4) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(5) While both inhibitors caused thermosensitization, they did not affect the time scale for the development of thermotolerance at 42 degrees C or after acute heating at 45 degrees C. The inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribosylation) radiosensitizers and thermosensitizers may be of use in the treatment of cancer using a combined modality of radiation and hyperthermia.
(6) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
(7) The literature is reviewed to define the role of the different treatment modalities.
(8) The numerical chromosome values in 53 human tumors were determined and compared with the modal DNA values as measured by flow cytometry.
(9) A prospective randomized trial involving 64 patients with bleeding peptic ulcers was performed to assess the efficacy of two modalities of injection therapy.
(10) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
(11) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
(12) Total abolition of the CR ensued when the wave of CSD reached the motor (frontal) cortex and again was independent of the CS modality.
(13) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(14) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
(15) Newer modalities, such as TRUS and PSA, can identify patients with nonpalpable prostate cancer, but the use of these tests will also result in many false-positives.
(16) Mean run time and total ST time were faster with CE (by 1.4 and 1.2 min) although not significantly different (P less than 0.06 and P less than 0.10) from P. Subjects reported no significant difference in nausea, fullness, or stomach upset with CE compared to P. General physiological responses were similar for each drink during 2 h of multi-modal exercise in the heat; however, blood glucose, carbohydrate utilization, and exercise intensity at the end of a ST may be increased with CE fluid replacement.
(17) The cells have been maintained through 23 serial passages, and the modal number of chromosomes was calculated to be 55.
(18) This noninvasive but precise imaging modality demonstrates the potential value of using MRI to evaluate the diameter of small vessels, including the postoperative monitoring of arterial bypass graft patency in peripheral regions.
(19) Cancer treatment with biological response modifier (BRM) therapies is characterized by many of the same issues observed with other modalities.
(20) Within a treatment program, the use of various kinds of assessment methods and treatment modalities did not appear to be closely associated with the endorsement of abstinence vs nonabstinence treatment goals.