(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.
Versed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Verse
(a.) Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced.
(a.) Turned.
Example Sentences:
(1) But as a former Eurocrat, he is well-versed in the weaknesses and believes it is right to highlight them in stark language.
(2) The simplicity of the method, in particular, the solution by the graphic method for estimation of the apparent volume of distribution, might be specially useful for clinicians not well versed in mathematics in applying clinical pharmacokinetics to drug therapy.
(3) At the same time, he is keen to do everything in his power to help Palace pick up three crucial points, right down to giving Pulis chapter and verse on the Cardiff players he knows inside out.
(4) His controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses, which provoked a religious opinion or fatwa, from the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the author's killing as punishment for blasphemy, is still banned in India.
(5) No wonder the European Union has banned the use of the term on packaging unless it can be backed up with scientific chapter and verse.
(6) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
(7) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
(9) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
(10) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
(11) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.
(12) Used on West’s Blame Game, the sample is un-missable: a looped piano figure under West and John Legend’s verses.
(13) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
(14) He gives the team and the club a good presence, and you could see that from what he gave to us here.” Leeds are a club well versed in setting records, and they have now not won at Elland Road for 11 matches, stretching back to March.
(15) For those not versed in 800m times, that's remarkably quick considering his age and the conditions.
(16) "His 'official' laureateship verse was published in the Times and even included a poem on the assassination of John F Kennedy.
(17) This last point seemed to draw some sympathy from Justice Anthony Kennedy, who hails from California and is well versed in the central role of the initiative process in the state's political culture.
(18) The show will also see him discuss topics including "pogonophobia, underpants and the human condition", pognophobia being a fear of beards – something Paxman is well versed in following the public outcry at his beard-sporting last year.
(19) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(20) Two divergent viewpoints, central verses peripheral, provide insight into possible mechanisms.