(a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
(a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.
Example Sentences:
(1) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(2) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
(3) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
(4) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
(5) Examples include growth trajectories, morphological shapes, and norms of reaction.
(6) This study was designed to assess whether the influences of affect, utility, norm, and habit on intention to seek care promptly for a breast cancer symptom were conditional upon race.
(7) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(8) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
(9) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
(10) In 30 patients, the structure and function of the reproductive organs was within age norm.
(11) On the basis of detected wide species variety of microorganisms potentially dominating by their biotope numerical limits of the norm were determined only for the microbial groups of the accompanying microflora.
(12) Overall, both groups scored higher than the norm and showed a more optimal personality development than has been observed in earlier studies of this kind.
(13) Its average values are significantly lower up to the 6th month post treatment discontinuation and closrm, with only 13 above the norm.
(14) The biological tolerability was excellent without any variation of the biological norm values (47 parameters).
(15) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(16) An interactive effect between drug testing and subjective norms on attitudes toward a company was also significant.
(17) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(18) In the athletic population the maximal aerobic power increased across ages 10 to 14, whereas, the values for the less active norms decreased with age.
(19) This, in turn, would provide the cover to push through aspects of the Trump agenda that require a further suspension of core democratic norms – such as his pledge to deny entry to all Muslims (not only those from selected countries), his Twitter threat to bring in “the feds” to quell street violence in Chicago, or his obvious desire to place restrictions on the press.
(20) Prolonged breast feeding should be encouraged, child health improved, and research conducted on the traditions, norms, customs, and taboos of target populations.
Prescriptive
Definition:
(a.) Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
(4) Using the results of a first evaluation made in 1989, a series of recommendations were made to reduce the prescription of drugs with a low intrinsic value (LIV).
(5) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
(6) Of these 1224 prescriptions, 82.8% were for veterinary preparations, 6.6% were for human preparations and 10.6% were for other drugs.
(7) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(8) An analysis of my own practice prescriptions showed that only 31% were repeat prescriptions, and this concurs with national figures.
(9) She also claimed Salazar tried to get her to take prescription thyroid medicine to lose weight after the birth of her son.
(10) Despite the small number of patients studied, these results suggest the importance of limiting the prescription of 25 OH D3 to children suffering from renal osteodystrophy only after having assessed unequivocally an osteomalacic component by histodynamical criteria.
(11) When that prescription was gone, he said he was still in pain, so the doctor wrote a second prescription.
(12) Results indicate that special instruction was responsible for improved understanding of the underlying disease and also improved compliance with physicians' prescriptions.
(13) The recognition that all minor tranquillizers carry the risk of dependence has had a significant impact in their prescription over the years.
(14) The physician's suggestions have significant impact on elderly patients, and a social prescription often enhances a medical regimen.
(15) In our countries, a good prescription of analysis would help to reduce hospital costs without modifying the efficiency of the diagnosis approach.
(16) Although prostheses are not anatomical avatars, careful appliance prescription and training, coordinated with the child's growth and developmental changes, can optimize the benefits the child derives from the prosthesis.
(17) These may be reduced partly by greater care in the prescription and execution of this treatment, but it is impossible to completely avoid them; it is therefore desirable in certain cases to avoid systematic prophylactic treatment by using other first line methods such as early mobilisation, elastic contention, hemodilution or indeed in certain cases the insertion of a vena cava filter.
(18) The results suggest that compliance in using the initial prescription for sublingual nitroglycerin can be improved when the physician supervises the first dose.
(19) It was concluded that a single spectrum could validly be used to represent both male and female speech in the frequency region important for hearing aid gain prescriptions: 250 Hz through 6300 Hz.
(20) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".