(n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Relative to EM, Meritec had the highest specificity (97%), followed by Virogen (95%), IDL (91%), Pathfinder (85%), Behring (81%), Bartels (72%), and Rotazyme (71%).
(2) Of these five classes we analyzed pathfinding by the RB, DoLA, early ascending commissural, and VeLD neurons.
(3) Our results support hypotheses that cellular distribution and transmembrane interactions are key elements in the functions of these adhesion molecules during axonal pathfinding.
(4) The prime minister adds that 141 pathfinder GP consortia are already in place covering half the country and that more are signing up.
(5) "I agree with that, which is why in 2011, with my concerns, I changed the programme to introduce a pathfinder and why in 2012, after my own independent review told me that my concerns were justified, we made changes to personnel and brought in outside people."
(6) The sensitivities for detecting C. trachomatis in conjunctival specimens with MicroTrak and Pathfinder were 93.8 and 88.2%, respectively, and the specificities were 87.5 and 94.9%, respectively.
(7) And although in a few cases Pathfinder entailed the demolition of housing in genuinely blighted areas, and though there's no doubt that northern cities were depopulated from their mid-20th century heights, market correction was always the rationale.
(8) They are victims of what John Prescott and Yvette Cooper called Pathfinder slum clearance , a title justly echoing Bomber Harris's campaign to smash German cities .
(9) We compared the Pathfinder direct fluorescent antigen (DFA) test for chlamydial infections to tissue culture isolation in an obstetric population.
(10) Of 286 specimens analyzed by PAGE, SNAP, rotavirus EIA, Pathfinder, and Rotaclone, 88 were positive by PAGE.
(11) Pathfinder was New Labour at its worst, an exemplar of its authoritarianism, its arrogant assumption that the core vote can be screwed over indefinitely, and its blind faith in the market.
(12) 3 programs of MR training and service have been introduced in Bangladesh: the Menstrual Regulation Training and Service Program begun by the Pathfinder Fund in 1978, now a quasi-governmental institution based in hospitals; the Mohammedpur Fertility Service and Training Center or Model Clinic, a comprehensive family planning agency; and the Bangladesh Women's Health Coalition, a nongovernmental feminist organization training only female family welfare visitors.
(13) In this article, we describe Pathfinder and our research in uncertain-reasoning paradigms that was stimulated by the development of the program.
(14) His voluminous scientific oeuvre is appreciated, particularly with regard to his role as a pathfinder for the newly developing field of dermatovirology.
(15) Mature crossbred wethers were used to compare Trailblazer and Pathfinder switchgrass hay in a digestion trial.
(16) Pathfinding abilities may not be restricted to pioneering axons of the facial nerve; later-developing facial nerve fibers also appeared to have positional information.
(17) In the present study we describe one of the most conceptually simple pathfinding cues: a single identified cell in the leech, Hirudo medicinalis, that may guide axons several hundred micrometers to innervate a particular target.
(18) Previous probes have included Lunar Prospector, which studied the moon's geology; Stardust, which returned a sample of material scooped from a comet's tail; and Mars Pathfinder, which deployed a tiny motorised robot vehicle on the Red Planet in 1997.
(19) In the face of a campaign illuminated by the startling duplicity of senior colleagues, including the then Home Secretary, James Callaghan, and an entirely hubristic challenge from the unions, pathfinding for the Thatcher assault on trade union rights ten years later, Barbara and Wilson rashly made the legislation an issue of confidence.
(20) A total of 410 specimens consisting of nasopharyngeal washes, aspirates, and swabs were simultaneously tested for the presence of RSV by direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) (Kallestad Pathfinder), shell vial centrifugation culture (SVC), and conventional culture.
Pathmaker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a second experiment females performed better than males on a reference memory odor trail discrimination task which involved following the path of like-gender "pathmaker" rats to the escape platform.