(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
(20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
Treadle
Definition:
(n.) The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
(2) Ashden Outstanding Achievement Award International Development Enterprises India (IDEI) - for a simple treadle pump that has lifted more than 750,000 farmers out of poverty.
(3) Groups of pigeons were trained to depress a treadle in the presence of a compound stimulus consisting of a tone and a red houselight (a) to avoid electric shock, or (b) to obtain grain.
(4) The facilitative effect was equal in four cases: (i) making no response (NR), (ii) finger abduction (FA), (iii) noninvolved muscle (NIM), and (iv) involved muscle during treadle pressing (IM).
(5) The effects of promazine on treadle pressing to postpone the presentation of electric shock were studied in three pigeons.
(6) In Experiment 2 eight pigeons learned a treadle-press response to avoid or escape shock on a signaled free-operant schedule.
(7) Rates of responding changed systematically across sessions for rats pressing levers and keys and for pigeons pressing treadles and pecking keys.
(8) After performance had stabilized, the degree to which each element controlled treadle pressing was determined.
(9) Selected doses of both promazine and chlorpromazine increased the rates of treadle pressing in all birds.
(10) Two experiments investigated free-operant avoidance responding with pigeons using a treadle-pressing response.
(11) The response-rate increases produced by promazine and chlorpromazine were due to increased conditional probabilities of treadle pressing both before and during the preshock stimulus.
(12) Effective doses of apomorphine caused dose-dependent decreases on treadle-pressing rates in all animals.
(13) Appropriate doses of amphetamine caused rate-increasing effects on key-pecking as well as treadle-pressing rates of all pigeons.
(14) Frame-by-frame analysis of videotape records of E21 rat fetuses revealed that tactile contact with the artificial nipple elicited mouthing, licking directed at the nipple, forelimb treadling, and grasping of the nipple.
(15) Pigeons were trained to depress and hold a foot treadle until a stimulus change occurred.
(16) Each treadle press postponed electric shock for 20 sec and presentation of a preshock stimulus for 14 sec.
(17) Key-pecking and treadle-pressing behavior were maintained in five pigeons by a mult.
(18) For example, Climate Care is helping to fund simple 'treadle' water pumps for farmers in India, to give them the freedom to irrigate their crops without relying on expensive, polluting diesel pumps.
(19) This will take over 2000 years to make the same carbon savings as the treadle pump project will make in a single year with the same investment.