(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
(3) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(4) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(5) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(6) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(7) ASF-II was purified to apparent homogeneity by using concanavalin A-agarose affinity chromatography, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, alumina gel adsorption, and isoelectric focussing techniques.
(8) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(9) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(10) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(11) The strengths and weaknesses of each technique are described in this article.
(12) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(13) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(14) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
(15) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(16) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(17) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(18) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
(19) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(20) How useful is the technique for evaluating therapeutic efficacy?
Virtuoso
Definition:
(n.) One devoted to virtu; one skilled in the fine arts, in antiquities, and the like; a collector or ardent admirer of curiosities, etc.
(n.) A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, who excels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or even that little-known film called Pulp Fiction, in which Christopher Walken gives a virtuoso performance as Captain Koons, with a deranged rant about hiding his watch from evil "yellow slopes".
(2) It is, said publisher Little, Brown, "a virtuoso performance whose soaring riffs on the inexhaustible marvel of human perception and rage against the dying of the light will stand among Iain Banks' greatest work".
(3) Britain’s consul in Johannesburg, RJ Miller, accused Vine of bumptiousness and a “virtuoso display of name-dropping, from the prime minister downwards”.
(4) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(5) It was a virtuoso goal, notes from a Stradivarius when everyone else seemed to be stuck in an oompah band.
(6) Ravi Shankar was a virtuoso sitar player long before he became a cult for a drug-fuelled hippy generation that found the exquisite music he plucked from the strings a perfect accompaniment to the consumption of marijuana and LSD.
(7) Fonteyn was cast first for the ballerina role but it was Shearer, who followed her, whose speed of footwork came nearest to capturing Balanchine's virtuoso choreography.
(8) Eleanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize .
(9) He is one of the virtuosos: he was disciplined, and lived and breathed what he did from a very early age.
(10) Ambitious, serious, and much superior to the average ministerial platform speech, it may have lacked the virtuoso egotism of Boris Johnson’s address soon afterwards in the same hall.
(11) Chet Atkins, who has died of cancer aged 77, was the first virtuoso guitarist in country music and a record producer largely responsible for devising the Nashville Sound, which put a new polish on country music in the 60s and 70s.
(12) George Osborne moves to peg public finances to Victorian values Read more They also have one or two other things in common: • Like Osborne, who has masterfully dramatised the state of the UK’s public finances for political purposes – including a suggestion in 2010 that the UK was one step away from a Greek-style crisis – Micawber is also a virtuoso at hamming up the perils of his situation and swiftly turning them to his advantage.
(13) Panahi, the virtuoso neo-realist who won a prize at Cannes for his debut, The White Balloon, in 1995, and, at 50, now has one of the most sagging mantlepieces in cinema, is currently stuck in Iran, awaiting the verdict of his appeal against a six-year prison term, and 20-year-ban on film-making, talking to the press and travelling abroad.
(14) Central to the novel (A Void in Gilbert Adair's virtuoso translation) is the idea of disappearance and, implicitly, the Holocaust.
(15) They were very different gigs – it was jazz to the fore on the One Nite Alone… tour in 2002, then all the arena hits in 2007, and finally, the electric 3rdeyegirl lineup in 2014ect – but these gigs, while utterly different, were all the same, ultimately: flowing, virtuoso performances by a man who seemed made of all music, able to switch with a smirk between high-kicking soul revue and blues metal, his sky-scraping Eig80s pop hits and funk deep cuts.
(16) These early twentysomething virtuosos are one of the most exciting live groups out there, flipping the jazz idiom on its head and effortlessly blazing through genres including soul, funk, dub, bass music and more.
(17) Because less than a third of hypnotic virtuosos responded literally, our results strongly refuted Erickson's assertion that literalism is a cognitive feature of hypnosis.
(18) The huge block of marble was a virtuoso piece of carving, its weight carried on just five points where the statues meet the base.
(19) In the decisive group meeting with Denmark, he pulled the strings like a virtuoso, arrowing in a fabulous free-kick and preparing the killer blow with a Cruyff turn and pass of feathered delicacy.
(20) He is skilled, witty, energetic and performs like a virtuoso," said Bellow at the time.