Objective: With the use of microsatellite analysis, we sought to determine the incidence of maternal cell contamination in 46,XX products of conception consisting of villi or a combination of villi and membranous material.
When he said that the whole meaning of a (clear) conception consists in the entire set of its practical consequences, he had in mind that a meaningful conception must have some sort of experiential "cash value," must somehow be capable of being related to some sort of collection of possible empirical observations under specifiable conditions.
Peirce insisted that the entire meaning of a meaningful conception consisted in the totality of such specifications of possible observations.
The machine was somewhat homely in conception: it consists of an unending tape divided into squares (rather like an infinite strip of toilet paper).
The Scottish conception instead consists of a few fairly simple rules aimed at supplementing the law in order to prevent hardship.
As for the paternalistic American pluralism preached by John Kerry, this could soon be washed away by a demagogue whose conception of democracy consists of a soapbox and a baseball bat.
The classical conception is that beauty consists of an arrangement of integral parts into a coherent whole, according to proportion, harmony, symmetry, and similar notions.
According to a more widely used conception, the path to enlightenment consists of a threefold training in ethics, in concentration, and in wisdom.
It consists of mental conception of the body, sexual function, sexual function satisfaction, and attitude towards future, side effects of systemic treatments, side effects in the patient's breast and hand and worries about hair loss.
It consists of an actuator conception for which it is possible to move the hydrazine pump leading to very short required displacements.
On the platonistic conception, the subject matter of mathematics consists of abstract entities.
