(1) Members of the Society of Chairmen of Academic Radiology Departments (SCARD) from 135 university hospitals in Canada and the United States were surveyed regarding their experience in admitting patients to diagnostic radiology departments between 1986 and 1989.
Sward
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward.
(n.) Skin; covering.
(n.) The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Referee Mark Clattenberg leads them out on to the Villa Park sward, where the match-ball is waiting on a bespoke Premier League plinth.
(2) To minimize the incidence of grass tetany, winter pastures should be established on soils containing Mg-rich minerals, drainage should be improved on five-textured soils, legumes should be included in the sward and soil pH should be at least 5.5.
(3) A sward is kept in a vigorous state by preventing repetitive defoliation at the one extreme, and avoiding excessive shading (mature growth) of photosynthetic material at the other.
(4) Read more Near the terminus, towering rock walls shelter a beautiful sward of yellow bird’s foot trefoil carpeting the inner quarry floor – and attracting the attention of a common blue butterfly.
(5) The health of the sward must be maintained while improving individual animal performance and simultaneously increasing stocking rate.
(6) But in tropical grass swards, leaf density and leaf:stem ratio have a greater influence on bite size than does leaf surface height.
(7) Sixty-four intact lambs and twenty-four lambs fitted with a duodenal cannula were weaned at 6 weeks of age and grazed pure species swards of either lucerne (Medicago sativa), white clover ((Trifolium repens), ryegrass (Lolium perenne) or prairie grass (Bromus catharticus) for 6 weeks.
(8) Biting rate values were similar for all treatment groups but lower than those previously reported on other grass swards.
(9) A single sward of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
(10) Sward type had a pronounced effect on serum and urine Mg concentrations and a slight effect on hair Mg concentrations (P less than 0.10) only during midsummer.
(11) The stocking rate in each paddock was adjusted by either adding or removing animals so as to maintain as uniform a sward and rate of grazing as possible.
(12) Pure swards of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
(13) Samples of switch hair, blood, and urine were obtained periodically over 5.5 months from 11 Angus and 13 Angus-Charolais cows grazing either all-grass or grass-legume swards.
(14) From one soap opera to another: Adrian Chiles is directing this one, with Lee Dixon, Gareth Southgate and Roy Keane making up the cast of pundits standing on the Allianz Arena sward.
(15) Their close grazing, in concert with that of sheep, reduced the short sward to a thin crust of roots over sand.
(16) Pure swards of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L. cv.
(17) Durability of fixation of caesium-137 increases in a number of soils: sward-podzolic sandy, podzolic loamy soils, chernozem.
(18) A total of twenty Friesian steers were grazed on pure swards of either perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne cv.
(19) Mobility of caesium-137, sodium and potassium in the natural environment in podzolic gray and chernozem medium-loamy, sward podzolic sandy soils and chernozem has been studied.
(20) In Britain during the last interglacial period, elephants, rhinos and other great beasts maintained a mosaic of habitats: a mixture of closed canopy forest, open forest, glade and sward .