(n.) One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.
(a.) Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,
Example Sentences:
(1) However, at the aprt locus the repair-deficient cells were much more highly mutable (9-15-fold) than the repair-proficient AT3-2 cells.
(2) Mean proficiency scores were 51% for atrial flutter and 35% for ventricular tachycardia.
(3) We hypothesize that preferential removal of lesions from the transcribed strand of the hprt gene accounts for the observed DNA strand specificity of mutations in repair-proficient cells.
(4) On the other hand, excision proficient yeast cells were slightly more sensitive to killing by UV radiation following transformation with a plasmid containing the denV gene.
(5) recD and recB both encode subunits of exonuclease V, but recD mutants, unlike recB, remain proficient in genetic recombination and repair.
(6) Proficiency in this area, along with expert clinical advice, will be needed to advance therapy of patients complicated with fungal infections during the next decade.
(7) SPP1 mutants that are affected in the genes necessary for viral capsid formation (gene 41) or involved in headful cleavage (gene 6) remain proficient in pac site cleavage.
(8) When laboratories were analyzed according to hospital size, the proficiency in performing the proper susceptibility testing was 55% (6 of 11) for hospitals with more than 400 beds versus 3% (2 of 58) for hospitals with fewer than 100 beds (P less than 0.0001 by Fisher's exact test).
(9) When the practitioner has developed proficiency in restoring class II carious lesions with tunnel restorations, less treatment time is required than with traditional class II preparations.
(10) Spearman rbos between the questionnaire responses and relative hand proficiency were .733, .689, and .619.
(11) Early diagnosis of a primary tumor and recognition of recurrence are often facilitated if the examining physician is proficient in identifying skin metastases.
(12) It is shown that revertants are characterized as intermediate strains between recA and rec+ (on the level of recB, recC strains) on their recombination proficiency in crosses with Hfr, sensitivity to UV and gamma-rays and in F-heterogenote formed cultures on their capacity of the formation of recombinants between episome and chromosome and the capacity to chromosome mobilization.
(13) A proficiency study designed to assess interlaboratory precision of amniotic fluid surfactant measurements is presented.
(14) What are the standards of determining the degree of care, skill and proficiency that is required?
(15) For the first time, we report that critral exhibits UV-A (315-400 nm) light enhanced oxygen-dependent toxicity against a series of Escherichia coli strains differing in DNA repair and catalase proficiency.
(16) Maryland's proficiency testing program is modeled on that of New York State but incorporates improvements in diagnostic definitions, testing mechanisms, and retraining requirements.
(17) It is shown that imperfect correlations between proficiency and preference measures, and J-shaped distributions of preference, can be predicted by such a model.
(18) Before the course was developed, pharmacy staff members were asked to rate their drug information skills; the pharmacists' responses indicated their belief that they were not proficient enough in the skills needed in daily practice.
(19) Samples of whole blood from four hematologically normal adults and from two individuals with increased fetal hemoglobin levels were shipped to laboratories participating in the 1976 and 1977 Center for Disease Control (CDC) hemoglobinopathy proficiency testing surveys.
(20) The reliability of these techniques is dependent on proficient specimen procurement and the cytopathologist's expertise and experience.
Sufficient
Definition:
(a.) Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
(a.) Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
(a.) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
(a.) Self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(2) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(3) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
(4) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
(5) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(6) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(7) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(8) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(9) These levels are sufficient to maintain normal in vivo rates of mRNA and rRNA synthesis, but the average density of packing of polymerases on DNA is considerably less than the maximum density predicted by Miller and Bakken (1972), suggesting that initiation of polymerases of DNA is a limiting factor in the control of transcription.
(10) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(11) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(12) Virus replication in nasal turbinates was not diminished while infection in the lung was suppressed sufficiently for the infected mice to survive the infection.
(13) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(14) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(15) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(16) This established that the Gly----Glu substitution at amino acid 142 is sufficient to abolish enzymatic activity and to result in the chylomicronemia syndrome observed in these patients.
(17) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(18) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(19) In a previous analysis of the Hox-1.1 promoter in transgenic mice, we identified sequences that were sufficient to establish transgene expression in a specific region of the embryo.
(20) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.