(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.
Pioneer
Definition:
(n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
(n.) One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.
(v. t. & i.) To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(2) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
(3) That's right, centuries of political columnists owe their careers to the pioneering efforts of Davy, Davy Crockett, the king of the wild frontier.
(4) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(5) In this article the results of studies on the relationship between anaphylaxis and CNS, performed by both pioneers and contemporary investigators, are briefly reviewed.
(6) For example, where 2 longitudinal tracts are pioneered independently in grasshopper, only one is formed in Drosophila.
(7) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(8) Since acetylcholine (ACh) was identified as a neurotransmitter at parasympathetic nerve terminals by pioneering pharmacologists such as O. Schmiedeberg, R. Hunt, O. Loewi and H.H.
(9) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(10) But Olney wanted to be an artist and he set off for Paris, where he found himself a garret in which he could make portraits and a new life among friends, lovers and acquaintances that included the black American writer and civil rights pioneer James Baldwin, WH Auden and, distantly, Edith Piaf, whom he saw sing Je ne Regrette Rien for the first time at the Olympia theatre.
(11) He was a pioneer sexologist, demographer, and sportsman and an early Zionist.
(12) Their pioneering studies led to the continuing discoveries of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) and today's considerable knowledge concerning the molecular identity of antigens and further consolidation of ANA.
(13) The move signals a change for Democrats , who have traditionally shied away from gun control in a state with a pioneer tradition of gun ownership.
(14) Seven health habits, commonly referred to as the "Alameda 7," were shown to be associated with physical health status and mortality in a pioneer longitudinal study initiated in 1965 in Alameda County, CA.
(15) In a speech to the United Nations , Hu will declare that China is ready to pioneer a new low-carbon path of development, make a commitment to increase forest cover and pledge financial support for poorer nations to adapt to global warming, according to a source close to his delegation.
(16) Their growth cones pioneer a stereotyped pathway through the limb which becomes the route of one of the major leg nerve trunks.
(17) Just as the National Institute for Care and Health Excellence was the global pioneer for assessing new drugs and treatments in the last decade, London should become the pioneer for digital health technology assessments in the decade ahead.
(18) We, in the infection control field, are quality pioneers in hospitals.
(19) It is widely accepted that Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in surgery and midwifery.
(20) From its earliest days, Facebook has navigated – even pioneered – the territory around privacy, and how we express our personal identities online.