(1) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(2) These maxima were followed by periods of decreased thickness, although the minima were always greater than the untreated controls.
(3) The action spectrum for wild type has maxima near 383, 413, 452, and 490 nm and minima near 397, 425, and 469 nm.
(4) Multiple energy minima are derived from sampled conformations by minimizing their energy.
(5) A Monte Carlo-minimization method has been developed to overcome the multiple-minima problem.
(6) Spatio-temporal source modeling (simultaneously fitting a set of sources to all consecutive topographies) correctly localized all three sources, provided that the parameter optimization method could escape sub-optimal local minima of the error function.
(7) In the presence of increasing concentrations of the latter electrolytes, the CMC values frequently went through minima and approached the CMC of the surfactant in the absence of additives.
(8) For the normal ears, the psychometric functions were nonmonotonic, showing minima for gap durations corresponding to integer multiples of the signal period (n ms, where n is a positive integer) and maxima for durations corresponding to (n - 0.5) ms. For the impaired ears, the psychometric functions showed only small (nonsignificant) nonmonotonicities.
(9) 81% of these marks indicated minima parts, 10% of the marks indicated maxima parts, and 9% of the marks were at other positions.
(10) The lowest energy minima of the component disaccharide fragments were obtained from conformational energy mapping.
(11) Occurrence of nicking is best correlated with the predicted minima of the melting temperature and delta G profiles, as well as with A and T dinucleotide sequences at the nicked site, in both the supercoiled and the relaxed sequence-directed bent DNA substrates.
(12) Conversely, maxima and minima of lymphoproliferative responses to all the three mitogens occurred in April-June and January-February, respectively.
(13) Lehmann has demonstrated that EEG topography can be used to segment EEG map series into a sequence of spatially stationary segments characterized by location of potential maxima and minima.
(14) Using silver-impregnated nerve endings and bile canaliculi stained for thiamine pyrophosphatase, binary images like those prepared manually from thick specimens using a camera lucida can be obtained using the minima equalization procedure.
(15) They were significant different from the minima at noon (2P less than 0.005).
(16) These results are consistent with the hypothesis that phloretin decreases the intrinsic positive internal membrane potential but does not modify to a great extent the potential energy minima at the membrane interfaces.
(17) To estimate the sound pressure at the medial end of the ear canal, the Fourier transform of this impulse response is corrected by an all-pole function in which the poles are estimated from the minima in this Fourier transform.
(18) We believe we have found a better solution which comes closer to tackling the real problem by using a minima corticotherapy, delayed until a height 1 or 2 cm short of the desired height is reached and bridging the time later required for the conjugation cartilages to fuse, under the influence of physiological puberty which is allowed to occur naturally under this method.
(19) We postulate that this longitudinal separation, together with the single positive maximum and the three negative minima perceptible at 3.0 A, constitute a distance pharmacophore responsible for the recognition and proper alignment of the ligand.
(20) We have explored a strategy (the "antlion" method) for hypersurface modification that suppresses all minima but that of the native structure.
Minimal
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(2) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
(3) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(4) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(5) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(6) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
(7) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(8) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(9) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(10) In the last 2 years at our department we have developed a new technique in which the resorption has up to now been minimal.
(11) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
(12) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(13) In minimal-glucose-aminoacids at 37 C after an initial growth, cellular lysis occurred.
(14) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(15) At 10(-7) M, Iso produced approximately maximal responses at all ages in the ECH but elicited only minimal responses at all ages in the ERH, approximately ten times this concentration being required to produce maximal responses in the ERH.
(16) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
(17) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(18) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
(19) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
(20) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.