(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.
Skepticism
Definition:
(n.) An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
(n.) The doctrine that no fact or principle can be certainly known; the tenet that all knowledge is uncertain; Pyrrohonism; universal doubt; the position that no fact or truth, however worthy of confidence, can be established on philosophical grounds; critical investigation or inquiry, as opposed to the positive assumption or assertion of certain principles.
(n.) A doubting of the truth of revelation, or a denial of the divine origin of the Christian religion, or of the being, perfections, or truth of God.
Example Sentences:
(1) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(2) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
(3) But the question of what Wray will do after his tenure as FBI director may prompt some skepticism, the former agent said.
(4) Of these therapists, 78% reported that they had encountered intense skepticism from fellow professionals.
(5) Skeptics have disregarded that even lyophilized preparations of demonstrated activity will lose effect when stored above -80 degrees C. This explains some inconsistencies of results and difficulties in repetition.
(6) These stories play on half-truths, like the presence of far-right nationalists at Maidan, and reasonable doubt, like skepticism of western meddling.
(7) Louis Pasteur's vaccine against rabies, introduced 100 years ago, was greeted by the American medical community with a mixture of praise and skepticism.
(8) But first it has to get to the floor of the House of Representatives – where the leadership, which allowed a floor vote on Amash's amendment this summer, appears to take a more skeptical view.
(9) But the euro-skeptic outcome of the European elections posed risks to the single market and the economic recovery was "neither robust nor sufficiently strong".
(10) Outside of the potential abuses, there are other reasons to be skeptical of the cheerleading around the housing recovery.
(11) Some argue that the public accepts that modern medicine is effective, and others say that as a whole the public is skeptical about its value.
(12) PB Everything goes right for the Chargers You can forgive San Diego Chargers fans for being skeptical about their team's chances, and not just because their team only had a 1.6% chance of making the playoffs around Week 13 .
(13) Bradley argues that, while young people are generally good at spotting advertising, university prospectuses are different and can slip under the radar of skepticism.
(14) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
(15) The evaluation and management of retinal ischemia from atherosclerotic carotid disease is in a state of flux reflected by the change from emphasizing surgical management in the '70s toward skepticism about the benefit of surgery in the '80s.
(16) Changes in nomenclature, while sorely needed, should be undertaken with appropriate skepticism and conservatism and should build upon the foundation provided by DSM-III.
(17) Thomas Jefferson, though generally skeptical of the medical treatments of his day, turned to laudanum in his later years to help ease his chronic diarrhea – an affliction that probably helped kill him .
(18) Many clinicians and radiotherapists are skeptical about the outcome of using radiosensitizers in patients.
(19) Surgeons commonly have reacted with skepticism to the introduction of catheter-based interventional approaches to treating coronary artery disease, prompted apparently, by a desire to protect what had been exclusively their turf.
(20) And theirs is not the only near-death story that has raised skeptical eyebrows – even among evangelicals.