What's the difference between nonquantitative and quantitative?

Nonquantitative


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Preliminary data obtained by a nonquantitative nitrocellulose dot-immunoassay have tentatively identified this glycoprotein in the serum of 15 of 37 (41%) patients with colorectal cancer.
  • (2) For each client, the positive and negative, quantitative and nonquantitative, direct and indirect, short-run and long-run effects are probed and a summary analysis is made.
  • (3) The tendency toward metastasis for each tumor was expressed in indices that correlated well with diagnoses made by conventional histologic means, but were more accurate in predicting subsequent clinical behavior than nonquantitative methods of evaluation.
  • (4) These quantitative results confirm nonquantitative reports based on subjective visual impressions.
  • (5) Three sets of dietary data were compared using a 35-item nonquantitative food frequency questionnaire: initial reports in 1976, recalled reports obtained retrospectively in 1984, and current reports for 1984.
  • (6) This method resulted in a sensitivity of 82%, a specificity of 92%, and an accuracy of 85%, and it appears to be more reliable than three- and four-phase scintigraphy, which are subjective and nonquantitative techniques.
  • (7) In our spectral reductive titration of pure enzyme, we show that although blue neutral flavin radical is stabilized in nonquantitative amounts in dithionite titrations (19%) or in electrochemical reductions mediated by methylviologen (5%), it is not thermodynamically stabilized; therefore, only a midpoint potential for butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase is obtained.
  • (8) Available methods for the determination of paraquat in plasma or serum require sophisticated laboratory equipment and give low recoveries and nonquantitative yields.
  • (9) Because rules of logic must be viewed in the context of the attributes of information to which they refer, three attribute dimensions were also investigated: (a) positive-negative, (b) quantitative-nonquantitative, and (c) concrete-abstract.
  • (10) A stepwise discriminant analysis was used to study nonquantitative categories of nasal shape (straight, convex, and concave).
  • (11) When 10(5) or 10(6) yeasts per ml receive enrichment, a nonquantitative conversion to moniliform hyphae is effected and no capsule formation is observed.
  • (12) A quantitative method for the analysis of 201thallium myocardial scintigrams, developed in an experimental infarcted dog heart model, has been compared with two nonquantitative methods for interpretation of stress myocardial scintigrams in two groups of patients studied with coronary angiography: 11 with normal coronary arteries and 14 with coronary artery disease.
  • (13) Arguments against biopsy include (1) the poorly defined specific role of methotrexate in the development of hepatic histological abnormalities; (2) the nonquantitative histological grading system, which makes precise assessment of progression in hepatic disease difficult; (3) the poorly defined role of other factors in the progression of hepatic changes in patients taking methotrexate; and (4) the cost and potential morbidity of the procedure itself.
  • (14) Both quantitative and nonquantitative studies are critically discussed and reasons sought for some of the major controversies that have arisen.
  • (15) The radionuclide quantitative method was a more sensitive means of detecting early cases of mismatched pulmonary blood flow than roentgenography, which was nonquantitative and required the presence of relatively gross perfusion abnormalities before visual perception was possible.
  • (16) This study shows that enzyme histochemistry provides nonquantitative methods to detect and localize microvascular injury and that the injury caused by the microvascular clips was mild and reversible.
  • (17) Problems with these models include excessive time and nonquantitative toxicity end points.
  • (18) A protocol was developed to evaluate several nonquantitative assay kits for detection of human choriogonadotropin (hCG) in serum.
  • (19) To facilitate the use of decision theory in a computer-based decision support system, the authors developed a computer program that uses symbolic reasoning techniques to generate nonquantitative explanations of the results of decision analyses.
  • (20) Quantitative nuclear cardiography may help to fill the gap between the nonquantitative, rather unspecific and the specific but invasive methods of cardiologic investigation.

Quantitative


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to quantity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
  • (2) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
  • (3) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
  • (4) Various metabolites of etoposide and teniposide have been identified but their detection and quantitation are disputed.
  • (5) This approach is suitable for the quantitative detection of proteins.
  • (6) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
  • (7) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
  • (8) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
  • (9) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (10) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
  • (11) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
  • (12) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
  • (13) Metabolites of nafiverine in blood, bile, and urine were determined quantitatively.
  • (14) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
  • (15) Intramembrane particles (IMP) were quantitatively assessed in the perikaryal plasma membranes of infundibular neurons.
  • (16) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
  • (17) The amount of intracellular, iodophilic, glycogen-like polysaccharide (IPS) present in cells of two strains of Streptococcus mutans at various stages of growth in a chemically defined medium was determined by quantitative electron microscopy.
  • (18) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
  • (19) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
  • (20) Fibroblasts from two such TSD patients had Hex A activity comprising 16% of total Hex when measured by thermal fractionation and quantitation with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-N-acetylglucosamine (4MUG).

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