(n.) The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
(n.) A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
(n.) That which results; issue; product.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(2) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(3) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
(4) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(5) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(6) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(7) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(8) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(10) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(11) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(12) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(13) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(14) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
(15) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(16) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
(17) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(18) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(19) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
Subroutine
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
(2) The subroutine is well suited for statistical programs.
(3) A BASIC program provided a number of options while machine language subroutines generated interstimulus interval (ISI) and peristimulus time (PST) histograms.
(4) The data structure is developed in the C programming language and a suite of ANSI standard C subroutines that make up a run-time data structure management system is provided.
(5) A subroutine called DESOL for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations of the type arising in biological simulation problems is described.
(6) Additional safety features are provided in the computer-infusion pump subroutine, which cause alarms to be activated if computer-pump communication fails to occur within a specified time period.
(7) Many of these programs may be used as subroutines in analyzing data derived from experiments in cytogenetics as well as other fields.
(8) The present program consists of two main subroutines: Pulmonary Gas Exchange and Tissue Gas Exchange.
(9) One of the subroutines determines the pH, gradient slope and buffering capacity at any location of the gradient and includes a facility to estimate the pI of proteins from the composition of their primary structure.
(10) The least-squares subroutine is designed to fit retrospective pharmacokinetic curves and can generate the so-called population pharmacokinetic parameters using the Standard Two-Stage method.
(11) We believe that at this level in the brain, the subroutines of grooming, scratching and yawning are integrated into one skin maintenance behaviour.
(12) The pharmacokinetic models can be defined in the form of Laplace-transformed equations as a subroutine in MULTI(FILT).
(13) A novel algorithm and subroutine is presented for encoding and decoding calendar dates.
(14) This paper presents a set of easy-to-use FORTRAN subroutines that perform automatic derivative evaluation.
(15) Subroutine options permitted the grouping of data into experiment, record, and event numbers.
(16) The decoding skill appears to be a subroutine and may, in dyslexia, operate as a limiting factor that affects reading comprehension.
(17) When a malaria subroutine was included in the model, the calculations showed that all the theoretical releases greatly reduced the number of malaria-infective females and therefore would have a profound effect on transmission of the disease.
(18) The program is provided with a special subroutine which gives a quantification of the rhythm and regularity of the response through the histograms of the ratios between the duration of successive intersaccadic intervals and between the amplitudes of successive fast components.
(19) The programming philosophy is described and a variety of BASIC subroutines and formulae useful to the obstetrical sonologist are listed.
(20) Spurious profiles, caused by sectioning at bifurcations, can be overridden by an operator-interactive subroutine.