(n.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is the tabula rasa on to which the "anyone but Zuma" campaign can project their hopes and, perhaps, wishful thinking.
(2) Again, this is the 'tabula rasa' aspect of the 2008 election.
(3) A conditional analysis of psychotic disturbances must be based on the concept that the individual's psyche, in both spheres, is not a 'tabula rasa' (Locke), but always conveys a selection of that which has been offered in the situation (Leibniz).
(4) European engineers were sent in flocks to the US to learn from the environments in which these revolutionary ideas were playing out, returning with tabula rasa development plans to realise their own modernist dreams.
(5) The article presented here demonstrates structure findings (calvarial thickness; relation between tabula externa, tabula interna, and diploe [in terms of the percentage of the whole section examined], porosity of the diploe [including the mean width of its cavities]; degree of obliteration of the sagittal suture) of a strictly defined skeletal segment in special regard to the expected variability.
(6) Your Tory Party Chairman Name should be a tabula rasa for public trust.
(7) As was common at that time, the text plagiarized a portion of Vesalius' Tabulae sex, which resulted in the famous anatomist's anger.
(8) Reviewing the anglo-american literature and our own research it is argued that infants cannot be viewed as "tabula rasa".
(9) This study also formed the basis for the chapters on cyclopia in his Handbook of pathological anatomy (1842-1844) and his Tabulae ad illustrandam embryogenesin hominis et mammalium (1844-1849).
(10) He prefers to be the empty vessel in this three-way relationship, a tabula rasa giving nothing away, a disinterested party to the exchange, a mere catalyst, a service-provider, a set of skills for rent: at the basic level, he considers himself not to be involved.
(11) Forget tabula rasa regeneration, slow and steady wins the race.
(12) The nervous system of dark-reared chicks is not a tabula rasa, as chicks have predispositions to approach some stimuli rather than others.
(13) But such a site would have necessitated the intelligence of adaptive reuse and careful planning, of a kind clearly at odds with the tabula rasa predilections of the Expo juggernaut.
(14) "Obama's great strength on the campaign trail was that he was 'tabula rasa' [a blank slate].
(15) This potential for sudden destruction highlights one of the most powerful aspects of fire and cities: the ability to create a tabula rasa , to wipe clear the entire history of a place.
(16) Fairhead had come to the committee an unknown quantity and she left it a tabula rasa on to which the committee would tomorrow place a big tick.
(17) A conditional analysis of psychotic disturbances has to proceed from a conception that the individual's psyche in both spheres, is not a "tabula rasa" (Locke), but always already conveys a selection of that which has been offered in the situation (Leibniz).
(18) And as we've always wanted to make a garden we'll now have a tabula rasa of a third of an acre of what is now just grass."
(19) Real differences were not to be found, but there are to be derived possible tendencies of development for the calvarial thickness, for the relation between the compact bone (tabula externa, tabula interna) and the porous bone (diploë), of the porosity in the diploë and the obliteration of the suture in the course of increasing age.
Tabular
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).
(a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
(a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
(a.) Set in squares.
(a.) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
(a.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
(2) The agent sees greater commerical use in Europe than in the U.S. Analytical methods for determining the bulk chemical are presented tabularly.
(3) Traditional tabular comparisons are focused on contemporary locational policy needs.
(4) Based on general guidelines and requirements for the design and analysis of bioequivalence studies, specific recommendations are made for the presentation of results, both in tabular and graphical form.
(5) Using a tabular format, an attempt is made to provide a facile tool for referencing the literature.
(6) Maps based on these data and other tabular displays of demographic and epidemiologic characteristics of the diseases being tracked are periodically prepared and distributed.
(7) Arylsulfatase activity was evaluated for each stage of development and the results presented in tabular form.
(8) The INQ is a ratio of the nutrient-to-calorie content of foods which may be calculated by computer and printed as bar graphs and tabular data.
(9) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(10) The principal features of Autospec are simplicity of use, adaptability and flexibility, minimal intervention from the operator, standardized print-outs of all data in tabular and graphic forms, accuracy of computations, speed of operation, and ease of storage and back-up of data files.
(11) The amount of food is presented in tabular form, per day, per meal, per feed, or per tube-feeding with the schedule.
(12) An attempt is made to state the socio-cultural context, the biomedical aspects, general and specific educational objectives, and educational contents of school health education programmes on alcoholism and smoking respectively, and to compare these with each other by juxtaposition in a tabular presentation.
(13) The results of a cross-tabular analysis using disease as the independent variable and presence or absence of LSNs as the dependent, found no differences (chi 2 = 1.06, df = 2).
(14) The dosage rates of the immobilization combinations for mammmals, birds and reptiles are presented in tabular form.
(15) The specific facts for the individual diseases are presented in a tabular format.
(16) Data from a university hospital for 1986-87 are used to illustrate the spreadsheet's tabular and graphic output; version A is used to predict the number of outpatient prescriptions for the next month, and data for the hospital's semiannual expenditures on i.v.
(17) Using a microcomputer-based data-base management system, we have generated graphic and tabular presentations of follow-up, age at time of surgery, best postoperative visual acuity, preoperative and postoperative pathology, and surgical events and complications.
(18) So the dose prescribed (point A) as well as the treatment times and the maximum rectum doses can be given in tabular form.
(19) The relative effectiveness and costs of each setting are examined in a simple tabular display that allows comparison of each program's attainments on each criterion so that alternatives may be ranked according to the extent to which they meet standards and incur costs.
(20) The rate of energy use (or power use) at the gradient generation, leakage, and phosphorylation steps are reported as efficiencies and energy use factors in tabular form.