(n.) Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(2) 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.
(3) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(4) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(5) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(6) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(7) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(8) Two high-resolution (Hi-Res) ECG systems (MAC-12, Marquette Electronics, Inc (MEI), Milwaukee, WI and LVP101, Arrhythmia Research Technology (ART), Austin, TX) were tested on 143 subjects (13 controls and 130 cardiac patients, 21 of whom were tested for inducible ventricular tachycardia [VT]).
(9) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(10) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(11) To assist in understanding the experiences families face in adapting to either short- or long-term dependence on technology, a model was developed from literature and research review.
(12) The second area of improved SPECT technology is camera collimation and related imaging techniques.
(13) As the number of children with chronic illness increases due to advances in medical technology, general pediatricians are faced with the challenge of providing continuing care for such patients.
(14) Despite a few initial concerns about the technology and how it would fit into their daily routines, staff really see the benefit and find it rewarding to see the messages and be able to respond straight away.
(15) Before we embark on the next steps of the global technological revolution, we must ensure that the most basic of online tools are accessible to all.
(16) That left Google, which has outfitted 23 Lexus SUVs with driverless technology.
(17) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
(18) At the same time, however, he has backed the quality of the technology that the company is developing and resisted pressure to sell off underperforming businesses.
(19) There are other ways to deploy this same technology.
(20) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
Thermometry
Definition:
(n.) The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.
Example Sentences:
(1) This apparatus offers considerable scope for advance in the field of thermometry in anaesthesia.
(2) To date, satisfactory thermal dosimetry during the clinical application of localized hyperthermia can only be achieved using invasive thermometry.
(3) Skin thermometry and reflex vasodilatation was studied in eight cases.
(4) Thermal asymmetry of the lumbar region were revealed in 22 patients by means of contact thermometry.
(5) Finally, we studied the influence of a perfused phantom to the microwave thermometry.
(6) Two temperature probes (a fluoroptic sensor and a metallic thermistor), which are both suitable for stereotaxic implantation, were used in comparative thermometry studies during interstitial microwave heating of the brain in vivo.
(7) Data from animal experiments indicate that the use of thermometry probes within such a catheter provides reliable temperature measurements.
(8) Catheter thermometry was performed at each hyperthermia treatment.
(9) The authors have studied the action of nicotinate of xantinol on the placental, myometrial and cervical circulations using an isotope technique (Indium 113) and anemometric thermometry.
(10) For thermometry multiple catheters (mean 2.7) were inserted into the treatment volume.
(11) A regularity was revealed according to which numerical determination of heat emission in combination with thermometry in characteristic points of the leg and foot was a good test in determining the stage of the disease and a prognostic index of the efficacy of lumbar sympathectomy and rehabilitation of the patient in the immediate and late-term postoperative period.
(12) Thermometry data indicate that for low-power exposures the major error in thermographic measurements obtained after termination of heating is due to thermal diffusion and not evaporative cooling in the opened midplane of the phantom.
(13) Thermometry, thermography, digital plethysmography under hot and cold conditions, videomicroscopy of the nailbed, percutaneous PO2 and laser-doppler tests measure functional parameters, the hemodynamic significance of which require discussion.
(14) Infrared thermometry provided the noncontact measurement of temperature.
(15) These findings indicate that local hyperthermia applied by this method is effective in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and that improvement of the thermometry system is needed.
(16) Methods of investigating tissue blood flows include skin thermometry, thermal conductance or clearance, transcutaneous PO2, laser doppler flux, and photoplethysmographic techniques.
(17) It was shown that graphic presentation of data of liquid crystal thermography and electron thermometry remarkably facilitates documentation and analysis of the results obtained.
(18) The changes in mean body temperature (delta Tb) measured by thermometry showed a delay of 5-10 min when compared with delta Tb measured by calorimetry.
(19) The state of regional hemodynamics in crural ulcers was studied in 180 patients by means of hemodynamic tests, oscillography, capillaroscopy, thermometry, phlebotonometry, phlebography.
(20) To test this model a series of experiments was carried out in adult dogs in which stereotaxically implanted microwave antennas operating at 2450 MHz, fluoro-optical thermometry probes, and platinum electrodes were used to simultaneously measure CBF by thermal washout and hydrogen clearance techniques.