(n.) The quality or state of being simple; simplicity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(3) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(5) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(6) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(7) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(8) A simple method of selective catheterization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) following antegrade puncture of the common femoral artery is described.
(9) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(10) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(11) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
(12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(13) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(14) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(15) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(16) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
(17) The design of a simple dynamic knee simulator is described.
(18) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
(19) A rapid and simple method has been developed for the nondestructive distinction between aflatoxin B1 and the feed antioxidant, ethoxyquin.
(20) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
Simplicity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
(n.) The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
(n.) Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
(n.) Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
(n.) Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
(n.) Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(2) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(3) The system is characterized by high durability, simplicity, and economy and offers an attractive alternative to prevalent columns used for flow analysis.
(4) The simplicity of the Navy method for treating cholera makes it well suited for use in epidemics in populations with no experience in cholera.
(5) Features of this spectrometer which make it more suitable than the previously employed scintillation spectrometers for the observation of granulocyte and other chemiluminescent systems include; (1) the ability to measure CL immediately upon reaction initiation; (2) simplicity of photomultiplier tube exchange; and (3) built-in optical filter holders for spectral analysis.
(6) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
(7) TR-FIA has several advantages over the more laborious techniques available so far: (i) high sensitivity, (ii) large assay ranges, (iii) rapidity and large number of simultaneous assays, (iv) simplicity, and (v) low cost provided that the laboratory has equipment for time-resolved fluorometry.
(8) The ease of use and relative simplicity of the apparatus are advantages over more complex non-invasive techniques employing microprocessors in the analysis of blood velocity.
(9) Based on the simplicity of performance and the economical nature of the test system, DIA is recommended as a diagnostic tool for field surveys and small laboratories in developing countries.
(10) 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.
(11) The advantages of the method include speed, simplicity, avoidance of additional cloning steps into single-stranded phage M13 vectors, and hence applicability to sequencing large numbers of samples.
(12) The high diagnostic accuracy was obtained in spite of low spatial resolution and simplicity of the method.
(13) Guy Simplice, spokesman for president Michel Djotodia, said by phone there had been heavy fighting near the seat of government, before the army was able to block the aggressors.
(14) It was found that the present method was useful for the primary diagnostic screening of CTX because of its simplicity and because many samples could be analyzed at one time.
(15) The normal values are slightly higher than those obtained with methods using some purification step of the extract before the assay but due to its simplicity the described method is a suitable one for clinical purposes.
(16) Compared with the methods previously reported, this system showed good results, simplicity for setting up, good patient tolerance and low cost of the equipment.
(17) The new method offers shorter runtimes, improved resolution and greater simplicity in comparison with ion chromatography.
(18) The simplicity of the diagnostic tests is emphasized.
(19) Only 18 different species were isolated, which indicates the relative simplicity of the flora.
(20) The technical simplicity of the procedure should readily permit automation.