(n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
(2) "We're not saying we're cutting niche parts," he said.
(3) The round window niche and membrane can be involved in clinical problems including perilymphatic fistulas, sensorineural hearing loss in otitis media, and a variety of others.
(4) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(5) Namely: it takes one small, heavily publicised niche – affluent, usually white LGBTs – and presents them as representative of a whole spectrum of people.
(6) The social network remains a niche product, beloved by journalists, celebrities, and a hard core of miscellaneous obsessive users — but few others.
(7) The diversity of lake phytoplankton is unexpectedly high, since the epilimnion of a lake is continuously mixing and might be expected to have only one or at most a few niches for primary producers.
(8) The massive otosclerotic focus, obliterating the oval window niche, has a relatively high case incidence of 11-2 per cent in South Australia.
(9) Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
(10) -- (2) Nothing is known about a niche overlap of Austromenopon and Actornithophilus.
(11) The fundamental criterion was the size of the niche as established by radiologic examination.
(12) And because the market is expanding, ironically consoles may even have a larger customer base thanks to tablets and mobile devices: in a broader market, the 10% slice may end up bigger than the 100% slice of a smaller, niche market.
(13) The existence of equilibria at which there is no genetic load is examined.--The absolute fitness of any genotype is regarded as a function of location in the niche space and the population density at that location.
(14) Apparently the same SC system is adaptive in diverse species despite the very different behavioral repertories of these animals and their different ecological niches.
(15) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(16) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
(17) The oval window niche was filled with either 1 percent sodium hyaluronate or 0.9 percent NaCl.
(18) Furthermore, taking account of the visual system of certain species from other orders, it is assumed that the cytoarchitecture of the visual system is dependent more upon the ecological niche than on systematics.
(19) Revision of the left niche was undertaken shortly after the 5th bleeding two months postoperatively.
(20) A reimbursement system designed to encourage competition led to a "survival-of-the-fittest" mentality that prompted many managers to develop "competitive strategies" and look for "niche opportunities."
Specialty
Definition:
(n.) Particularity.
(n.) A particular or peculiar case.
(n.) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
(n.) That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(2) Neuroradiology, originally developed through invasive techniques arising out of cooperation between radiology and neurosurgery, has today become a specialty which, thanks to its new non-invasive methods, can provide much information about diseases of the nervous system.
(3) The indices are based on patient-level data so they can be aggregated at any level (hospital, specialty, physician), are easy to use and interpret by hospitals, and provide an inexpensive method for evaluating hospital performance using existing databases.
(4) The panel stressed that students be taught strategies for obtaining the training necessary for postgraduate entry into a specialty area such as early intervention.
(5) The authors constructed personality profiles for the students who had chosen each of these seven specialty groupings, on the basis of t-tests and discriminant function analyses, and discuss these profiles and their associations with the students' specialty choices in the context of earlier research.
(6) An adequate mechanism to implement recertification can emerge only from the profession itself, working through the American Board of Medical Specialties and specialty boards.
(7) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
(8) The HMO and fee-for-service plans had similar prevalence of psychiatric disorder and similar access to specialty mental health care.
(9) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(10) This paper examines the types of coping strategies used by two groups of persistent pain sufferers: one from a family practice clinic and the other from a specialty pain clinic.
(11) Because emergency medicine is a broad-based specialty, there is much leeway in the structure of resident education.
(12) A theoretical basis and an organizing framework are needed in this specialty field in order to assure that we are providing comprehensive and holistic care.
(13) For the decision involving adjuvant chemotherapy, specialty, hospital size, and presence of radiotherapy equipment on site were important predictors.
(14) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
(15) The majority of nurses entering the specialty of rehabilitation have little or no previous rehabilitation experience.
(16) Results of questionnaire survey of 275 physicians of major clinical specialties are provided in regard to 26 aspects of medical expertise.
(17) Since the first use of lasers in ophthalmology in the early 1960s, applications for the medical laser have been found in many medical specialties.
(18) The parents should not be expected to be the "brokers" for various specialty services.
(19) Two services were identified, in which an increased LOS represented a difference in the practice patterns of physicians in these specialties, in comparison with those of other physicians in this area.
(20) Urologists were found to work short hours relative to other surgical specialties, and their operative work load ranked sixth among the ten surgical specialties.