(a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
(a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste.
(a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
(n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources.
(n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(3) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
(4) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(5) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(6) Differences between the albino vs pigmented strains were observed following injections of saline.
(7) The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pretreatment with indomethacin on the refractory period to hypertonic saline-induced bronchoconstriction.
(8) When caffeine evokes a contraction, and only then, crayfish muscle fibers become refractory to a second challenge with caffeine for up to 20 min in the standard saline (5 mM K(o)).
(9) Hypertonic saline infusion induced significant (P less than 0.05) increases in serum Na and Cl concentrations and osmolality, whereas ISS induced a significant increase in serum Cl concentration and a significant decrease in serum phosphorus concentration.
(10) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(11) Guanabenz is acutely natriuretic and diuretic in saline expanded animals.
(12) G-17-I infusion, the stomach was continuously infused with isotonic saline.
(13) From comparative in vitro tests in air, fat, water, and saline it was concluded that only tests in fat or air represent the worst case condition after implantation.
(14) Different groups of animals received 3 doses of 10 ng LH-RH or saline prior to a single 50 ng LH-RH injection.
(15) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
(16) The CI treatment induced almost full protection against these behavioral effects of saline stress but DS treatment was ineffective.
(17) Halothane variably increased the current produced (and therefore the estimated oxygen tension) at all polarizing voltages in saline solution equilibrated with either N2 or air.
(18) Liquid-dominated hydrothermal reservoirs, which contain saline fluids at high temperatures and pressures, have a significant potential for contamination of the environment by heavy metals.
(19) Ultrasound diagnosis could be aided by transabdominal amnio-infusion and, if necessary, fetal intraperitoneal saline installation.
(20) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
Spline
Definition:
(n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
(n.) A long, flexble piece of wood sometimes used as a ruler.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper addresses the latter assumption by applying a direct and flexible approach, cubic spline functions, to two widely used models: the logistic regression model for binary responses and the Cox proportional hazards regression model for survival time data.
(2) After filament images were straightened by spline-fitting, several transforms showed well-defined layer-lines arising from the helical structure of the filament.
(3) We have compared three interpolation methods (surface splines, spherical splines and tridimensional interpolation functions).
(4) The smoothing B-spline function was applied to 3, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, and 97 percentile TW2 RUS, carpal and 20-bone scores.
(5) The four parameter logistic method, which is based on an approximation of the mass action law, performed better than the Spline method, a procedure which makes no a priori assumptions about the data.
(6) The first and second derivatives of progress curves are obtained from the cubic spline function.
(7) To improve the qualitative and quantitative analysis of surfaces of protein, two new methods are proposed: one that smoothes the MS surface of Connolly with B-spline smoothing functions to highlight the significant features of the surface, and one that computes the density of surface neighborhood to allow quantitative comparison.
(8) In the model, patellofemoral joint profiles projected on a horizontal plane have been expressed as spline functions.
(9) It was demonstrated that by using a least-squares surface-fitting technique, the SPG data on the surface can accurately be described by a single parametric biquintic spline function.
(10) Approximating the signal with a linear combination of cubic B-splines with equally spaced knots, according to the linear least-squares criterion gives the desired data reduction and an elegant way to perform an automatic analysis.
(11) The practical implementation of a rapid Catmull-Rom (cardinal) spline is described, and its advantages with respect to speed and ease of use are discussed.
(12) One of these is the procedure known as one of the best automatic smoothing and differentiating techniques: generalised cross validatory spline smoothing and differentiation (GCVC).
(13) Splines, were invented nearly 30 years ago and have been shown to have desirable properties.
(14) The spline technique is superior in accuracy to sampling at eight-times the Nyquist rate and is comparable to a Fourier-transform-based interpolation algorithm.
(15) Lines representing linear regression, log-linear regression or quadratic regression were inferior to those described by linear splines.
(16) Although spline functions are by no means unknown to demographers, no simple and direct explanation of their application exists.
(17) The spline technique was used to analyse these data as continuous variables, and showed that the 'super-obese' group of families was too small to be of any practical importance.
(18) Using penalized likelihood the three curves can be fitted as cubic splines by non-linear regression, and the extent of smoothing required can be expressed in terms of smoothing parameters or equivalent degrees of freedom.
(19) In general, the bilinear and bicubic spline methods of interpolation perform about equally.
(20) The folding pathway is defined by piecewise B-spline curves and the atoms are initially positioned with respect to the local Frenet trihedra determined by the equations of the curves.