(n.) One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.
(n.) A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The DCM sampler is expected to contribute to public health impact assessments by facilitating detailed determinations of the identities, compositions, concentrations, sources, formation mechanisms, and biological activity of environmental toxicants in gaseous atmospheres.
(2) The sampling rates of the samplers were derived from Fick's First Law of Diffusion.
(3) A commercially available auto-sampler was modified to enable unattended sampling over a 24-h test period using a cumulative drug release test based on the USP apparatus 1.
(4) Airborne particulate matter was collected by high volume samplers at two sampling stations in Berlin (West) between March 1983 and February 1984 (immissions).
(5) The performance of a new ectocervical brush sampler--the Cervex--was compared with the Ayre spatula in 280 paired cervical smears.
(6) The 50% effective cut-off diameter of stage 1 of this sampler is 8.0 microns for spherical particles.
(7) Volumetric levels of pollens derived from broad-leaved herbaceous plant species heve been determined at a midwestern urban site with suction and rotating arm samplers.
(8) In the following investigation, air-germ measurements were conducted--using the Reuter-Centrifugal-Sampler (RCS) and the Sartorius-Sampler MD 3 (SAR), and using standardized nutrient-substratum and breeding conditions--in order to detect differences in the measuring process itself.
(9) The convenience and portability of the Reuter centrifugal air sampler (RCS) encouraged us to determine a range of 'expected values' for bacterial air counts in nine hospitals at 13 defined locations.
(10) The technique is applicable to the Andersen sampler.
(11) Electric air samplers equipped with foam plugs were used to monitor ambient air from the basement, the kitchen, and one bedroom at: 24 h prior to termiticide application, during application, and post-application at 24 h, 1 wk, and monthly for 6 mo.
(12) The electrostatic filter was placed in front of one of the treatment chairs and the slit sampler was, for one period, placed at a distance of 5 m from the filter.
(13) A new field sampler has been developed for measuring the particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide emissions of woodburning stoves.
(14) Using a newly developed SPM sampler and NO2 filter badge, continuous 4 day (96 hours) measurements were conducted in two hundred residential homes for four weeks.
(15) Using a low-noise air sampler and a sensitive radioimmunoassay, we measured the concentration of mite allergens in the air during sleeping with Japanese bedquilts (futon).
(16) The FIAX system uses quantitative indirect immunofluorescence to measure the specific binding of ANA to a sampler coated with human epithelial cells.
(17) The paper describes special problems of sampling toxic gases, very soluble in water, on workplaces with passive samplers.
(18) Andersen air samplers were used to determine the particle size distribution of Serratia marcescens aerosols created during several common laboratory procedures and simulated laboratory accidents.
(19) A significantly higher number of microorganisms was recovered by the Reyniers sampler.
(20) Air concentrations of solvents were measured with personal samplers and gas chromatography.
Simpler
Definition:
(n.) One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
(2) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(3) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
(4) Our results show that although kriging is a statistically optimal method, it is not markedly better than simpler interpolation algorithms, though it is considerably more complex to use.
(5) The relatively heavy computing effort required is emphasized, and contrasted with the rather simpler calculations associated with traditional statistical methods.
(6) The flanking segments also show homology to a simpler 30 nucleotide sequence from which they likely originated.
(7) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(8) With k-valued characters and, especially, with large trees, the types of configuration sets (events) used in the simpler examples are too rare (i.e., their predicted frequencies are too low) to be useful, and the construction of meaningful pairs of independent events becomes an important and nontrivial task in designing invariants suited to testing specific hypotheses.
(9) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(10) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(11) HSBC sold around 7,000 of a simpler type of interest rate product.
(12) The method of plasma exchange we used was simpler and cheaper than the conventional method.
(13) An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is proposed which is simpler and less expensive than RIA.
(14) Thoresen said: "We think the system needs to be fairer, and needs to be simpler and easier for people to understand.
(15) For H(+) ion blockage, a simpler model, in which H(+) enters the channel only from the bathing medium, is found to be sufficient.
(16) In many biomedical applications, such as electronic implantable devices, these simpler techniques have greater utility because of the reduced requirements on power, logic complexity and sampling speed.
(17) This method is a more direct, simpler and more accurate one for the assessment of rehabilitation effectiveness in clinics than the more widely used direct measurement of energy cost by indirect calorimetry.
(18) Making data collection simpler creates added public health value: on one occasion, 12 overdose reversals were reported in one location during a 24-hour period.
(19) Enzymatic syntheses of nucleosides can be simpler and quicker than syntheses carried out by chemical methods.
(20) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.