What's the difference between nonappearance and nonattendance?
Nonappearance
Definition:
(n.) Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
Example Sentences:
(1) These changes were small but significant even in the early stages (up to 24 h) after AJ injection and were followed by a sustained improvement in all parameters, corresponding to the nonappearance of clinical arthropathy in CsA-treated rats.
(2) Eubank Jr has heard it all before, which is why I’m surprised he allowed his dad to dictate his nonappearance at various press conferences with Saunders.
(3) Radiologic evaluation with intravenous urography shows nonappearance of the involved kidney.
Nonattendance
Definition:
(n.) A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty pregnant adolescents attended the program and 50 nonattenders served as controls.
(2) The cancers detected by screening were predominantly 'early stage', with 16% noninvasive (PTIS) and 42% invasive stage I (pT1 node negative), whereas cancers were frequently 'late stage' (more than pT2) and inoperable in nonattenders (44%) and controls (36%).
(3) When the cost of reserving an appointment was considered, the most cost-effective personal recruitment strategy was an invitation letter without a specified appointment time, followed by a second letter to nonattenders.
(4) Because women who attend sexually transmitted diseases clinics have a greater risk of developing cervical cancer than do nonattenders, the authors assessed the cost-yield of routine Papanicolaou screening at the Denver metro Health Clinic.
(5) Although this had little effect on patients' relative utilization status, it had a substantial effect on the identification of nonattenders.
(6) A questionnaire to the women who failed to attend these appointments identified pregnancy and seeking management elsewhere as the most commonly stated reasons for the nonattendance.
(7) In comparison, the most effective personal recruitment strategy was a letter with a specified appointment time followed by a second letter to nonattenders, which recruited 44.1% of women at an average cost of $19.99 and a marginal cost of $59.71 per additional attendee.
(8) The 128 nonattenders variously cited transport difficulties (particularly among women), unclear appointment details, and forgetfulness as main reasons for defaulting.
(9) A previous study showed that clinic attenders differ from nonattenders in emotions, personality, self-concept, neuroticism, psychosomatics, and health attitudes.
(10) Universities, hospitals and professional associations planning continuing education must determine if the needs of nonattending physicians are being met through other means or if new strategies are required to ensure that these physicians have opportunities for upgrading their knowledge.
(11) Macrosomia and hypoglycaemia were significant neonatal complications in infants of nonattending mothers.
(12) The model, which is based on the idea of attenuation of the components in the nonattended auditory image (in the case of segregated images), predicts lower sensitivity to information at the target component for the fused versus segregated target, and equal sensitivities for completely segregated targets and targets presented in isolation.
(13) However, logistic regression analyses indicated that, with the exception of number of community organizations known, these differences were attributable to demographic differences between attenders and nonattenders.
(14) When these patients were compared with a group of 31 nonattenders of the preconceptional clinic, in the former normoglycemia and normal hemoglobin A1 values were achieved before conception, whereas in the latter good control was reached by the second trimester.
(15) 50 children defined as persistent outpatient nonattenders were compared with 50 children who regularly attended the same clinics.
(16) Prepared couples were matched with nonattenders on six variables: race, patient status (clinic or private), parity, marital status, age, and socioeconomic status.
(17) Nonattending families tended to have lower incomes and less parental education and included more single parent families and nonwhite families.
(18) When GPs were asked how often in the last month they had actually given advice to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, program attenders reported offering it more frequently than nonattenders.
(19) In February 1989 a daily computerized record system was set up to identify risk groups and nonattenders.
(20) A study of nonattendance at a Dysplasia Clinic found that 20% of women who had an appointment in 1988 failed to attend the clinic during the next 18 months.