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TRIAL MASS [4 records]

Record 1 2023-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hygiene and Health
  • Dietetics
CONT

Secondary analyses were also performed by grouping patients into the 4 BMI [body mass index] categories endorsed by the National Institutes of Health : underweight([less than] 18. 5 kg/m²), healthy weight(18. 5-24. 9 kg/m²), overweight(25. 0-29. 9 kg/m²), and obese([greater than or equal to] 30. 0 kg/m²).... By weight category, patients who were overweight and obese had mortality risks that were 26. 1% and 47. 8%, respectively, lower as compared with the mortality risk of healthy-weight patients with HF [heart failure], whereas patients who were underweight had a 37. 0% increase in risk.... Overweight and obese BMI subgroups in this trial were at significantly decreased risk for all-cause mortality(0. 88 and 0. 81, respectively) as compared with healthy-weight individuals.

OBS

This term is hyphenated when it precedes a noun or follows a copular verb (e.g. to be, to seem, etc.).

PHR

Normal-weight individual, man, patient, subject, woman.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hygiène et santé
  • Diététique
CONT

Le risque de cancer de l'endomètre est multiplié par un facteur de deux à trois chez les femmes très obèses (IMCde masse corporelle supérieur ou égal à 35 kg/m²) par rapport aux femmes de poids normal (IMC compris entre 18,5 et 24,9 kg/m²).

PHR

Femme, homme, patient, personne, sujet de poids normal.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
DEF

A law suit.

OBS

Though it may seem unidiomatic to make litigation a count noun(hence a plural), the usage is old and is today common. "E. g. ", "[The] first and second parties now have certain litigations pending in the Mercer Circuit Court. "... "a single automobile litigation... consumed sixty-three trial days". "The firm engages in general civil practice with emphasis on business litigations". "No court in which a litigation to that end might be brought... This word is best not used, however, as an equivalent of action or suit :"Whether such claims are just need not be decided to determine the rights of the parties to this litigation [read suit]". Properly, litigation=the action or process of carrying on a suit in law or equity("OED") ;thus it does not refer to the suit itself, but to the maintenance of it. Here it seems to be used for trial :"As the rules became more numerous and more nicely distinguished, they became also less easily understood and applied by the great mass of people, until finally no one who had not given the subject particular attention could safely assume to conduct a litigation [read trial]".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
DEF

Désaccord entre deux ou plusieurs personnes porté devant un tribunal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho procesal
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Record 3 2010-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Acoustics (Physics)
DEF

A mass selected arbitrarily (or by prior experience with similar rotors) and attached to a rotor to determine the rotor response.

OBS

A trial mass is usually used in "trial-and-error" balancing or field balancing where conditions cannot be precisely controlled and/or precision measuring equipment is not available.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acoustique (Physique)
DEF

Masse choisie arbitrairement (ou par expérience préalable avec des rotors similaires) et fixée à un rotor pour déterminer la réponse du rotor.

OBS

On utilise généralement une masse d'expérimentation pour un équilibrage par «expérimentation systématique» ou un équilibrage in situ où l'on ne peut pas contrôler les conditions avec précision et/ou lorsqu'on ne dispose pas d'équipement de mesurage de précision.

Spanish

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Record 4 1992-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Goals are : to accumulate data; to apply theories and draw conclusions concerning unsolved crimes(such as the Jack the Ripper Whitechapel murders), controversial trial verdicts(such as the Sam Sheppard and Lizzie Borden murder cases) and theories involving alleged criminal conspiracies both past and present(such as the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations). Seeks to : become a mass private sector for research into unsolved crime by bringing together experts on many levels of criminal investigation; foster international communications among members and serve as a forum for their investigative data.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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