(n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
(n.) Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
(n.) Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
(n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
(n.) Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
(n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
(a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
(v. t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
(v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(3) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(4) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(5) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
(6) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(7) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(8) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(9) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(10) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(11) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
(12) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(13) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(14) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(15) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
(16) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(17) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(18) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(19) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
(20) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
Modular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(2) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
(3) 1.--Craneo-encephalic traumatisms with loss of consciousness, Feeding with a combination of parenteral nutrition and modular enteral nutrition for 7 days.
(4) A low-cost modular compact personal computer-based system for surface precordial mapping (SPM) developed by the authors was used to detect rejection periods, documented by endomyocardial biopsy (EB), in heart transplant patients on cyclosporine A therapy.
(5) The divergence of the cytochrome b gene is modular: various parts of the gene have changed with a different mode and tempo of evolution.
(6) (3) Full-time and part-time programs must be developed, possibly using a modular format.
(7) A general concept is applied to laboratory scale reactors as well as to large scale production facilities consisting of many unit operations with a hierarchical and highly modular structure.
(8) We have designed, from macronutrient and micronutrient modules, modular tube feeding diets that can vary according to patient needs.
(9) The increase in total medullary mass resulted from diffuse and multifocal modular proliferations of adrenal medullary cells primarily within the head and body regions of the glands.
(10) A deduced amino acid sequence of NvTN.1 showed a modular structure unique to tenascin characterized by epidermal growth factor-like and fibronectin type III repeats.
(11) Among these are manufacturing processes that adversely affect the wear-resistance of polyethylene (such as heat treatments to the articular surface or gamma irradiation used for sterilization), tibio-femoral articular geometry, polyethylene thickness, knee alignment, femoral-component-bearing surface material, modularity of the tibial inserts and tibial trays, and quality of the polyethylene itself.
(12) These modular courses, first implemented in 1982, involve students in a series of internal (college) assessments and two external (national) examinations.
(13) Such standardization ensures accurate interpretation of the modular enteral formula order by the enteral nutrition aide.
(14) Studies of output connections from the STS also reveal a modular anatomical organization of repeating 3-5 mm patches connected to the parietal cortex, an area thought to be involved in spatial awareness and in the control of attention.
(15) The integrated, associative view of number processing is supported by the dependence of modular views on abstract codes and other conceptual inadequacies, evidence for integrated associative networks in calculation tasks, acalculia phenomena, shortcomings in modular architectures for number-processing dissociations, close ties between semantic and verbal aspects of numbers, and continuities between number and nonnumber processing.
(16) The program is written in C, which facilitates transportability and modularity.
(17) Our analysis suggests that enhancers are composed of a modular arrangement of short conserved sequence motifs and that enhancer strength is correlated with the redundancy of these motifs.
(18) A similar 36-home scheme of RSH+P's modular flats for discount rent has also been ordered by Newham council in east London.
(19) NACI's unique modular form design facilitates thorough data collection, even for the most complex treatment scenarios.
(20) A modular gamma ray camera is described that gives useful image information over its entire crystal face.