(n.) An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
(n.) A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.
(n.) A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cape Ray, a 648ft converted car ferry, has been waiting at the Spanish port of Rota for four months for the extraction of chemical weapons from Syria to be completed.
(2) The removal of financial penalties for trusts that overwork their doctors would see us lose our only safeguard against unsafe rotas.
(3) Rota virus and Candida albicans were the Commonest identified organisms in the stools of the PEM cases, they were detected in 52% and 38.2% of cases respectively while 25% of WNC had rota virus in their stool and non of them had Candida (P less than 0.02).
(4) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(5) In 2015 the service was short of 50,000 staff, a 6% vacancy rate, and was becoming increasingly reliant on expensive agency staff to plug gaps in rotas.
(6) At high doses it produced fall out in the rota-rod test.
(7) A computer generated graphical display of the rota was used to facilitate leave planning.
(8) Chronic understaffing in hospitals means that trainees are typically being asked to work six extra shifts a month to cover for gaps in rotas, the survey found.
(9) In a statement it said its "safety record, incidents, complaints, response times to patients and rota fills all indicate a safely run service.
(10) He denied that: there is a fear factor ingrained into the whole culture of Sports Direct; that some shop workers are told they can be dismissed for three misdemeanours; that workers sometimes feel under pressure to mislead customers and the commission scheme only incentivises them to sell Sports Direct brands; that finish times on rotas are not adhered to; that there is inadequate training and that the company has been paying shop workers less than the legal minimum.
(11) 'I feel very conflicted': junior doctors and colleagues on the five-day strike Read more As the junior doctors point out, most NHS services are available at the weekend and most doctors work weekends as part of their rotas.
(12) Furthermore, PCP pups had difficulty performing the rota-rod task at 4 weeks and exhibited a decrease in sensitivity to challenged PCP at 5 weeks (female).
(13) Slidex Rota-Kit 2 was more sensitive and specific than the other tests, and would thus appear to be a practical and accurate rotavirus assay for use in routine laboratory work.
(14) The radii of curvature (R) of the horizontal (Rh), anterior (Ra) and posterior (Rp) semicircular canals were measured by a new technique (called ROTA) for cat, guinea pig and man.
(15) There are fewer of them than during the week, because there are no routine outpatient clinics or operating lists, but they all take their turn on the rota to cover emergency work and deal with inpatients.
(16) Conventional toothbrushes and Rota-Dent brushes used without dentifrice gave minimal abrasion on the dentin.
(17) Let them be more than just a uniform that turns up, ticks their rota and disappears until teatime.
(18) Local rotas for out of hours work are a good compromise between meeting the needs of patients and doctors in deprived areas, but there are financial implications for inner cities.
(19) After immunizing 8-month pregnant Holstein cows with human rotavirus, Wa strain, cow colostrum containing neutralizing antibody to human rotavirus, designated as Rota colostrum, was obtained.
(20) The action is likely to lead to operations being cancelled and hospitals having to hire temporary staff to fill gaps in rotas.
Schedule
Definition:
(n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
(v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
(2) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(3) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
(4) In contrast, the late component of the thrombopoietic response was demonstrated best on the most toxic drug schedules.
(5) While the mouse P388 cells were sensitive to OP in vitro, no effect was seen when OP was administered in vivo, even when schedules designed to take advantage of OP's time-dependent toxicity were used.
(6) Comparison of the seroconversion results showed the presence of protective antibodies against all the 3 types of polio in 100% of the children in both the groups, but there was no statistical difference in the geometric mean antibody titre in the two immunization schedules.
(7) This schedule appears workable in the community setting and yields response rates similar to those reported for 5-FU with high-dose leucovorin, but without the gastroin testinal toxicity profile of the latter combination.
(8) No significant quantitative differences in AFB1-DNA adduct formation between the dietary groups were observed following the first exposure to [3H]AFB1; however, total aflatoxin-DNA adduct levels in the choline-deficient animals were significantly increased during the multiple dose schedule.
(9) After 40 programmed minutes of acquisition and 12 min of maintenance, without notice, both schedules changed to extinction for 28 min.
(10) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(11) Different possible combinations between neutrons and photons (boost, mixed schedule) are discussed.
(12) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.
(13) in rabbits according to schedules designed to yield approximately level activity in plasma for periods up to 5 hr.
(14) Squirrel monkeys trained to respond under a schedule in which each response postponed the delivery of electric shock developed a steady rate of responding.
(15) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(16) It was found that DI rats responded less than LE rats on the progressive-ratio schedule and that DI rats suppressed drinking as much as LE rats at each concentration of quinine used on the drinking-suppression test.
(17) Two experiments reported the effects of prefeeding normal and septal rats prior to their daily sessions on a differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL-20) schedule.
(18) This dose and schedule of beta interferon did not result in significant anti-tumor effects in advanced NSCLC.
(19) Isoeffect distributions derived from time-dose fractionation values are examined, emphasizing alternate treatment schedules of the same plan.
(20) Our findings suggest that adoption of a sequential vaccination schedule (inactivated poliovirus vaccine followed by OPV) would be effective in decreasing the risk of VAPP while retaining the proven public health benefits of OPV.