Community-acquired pneumonia is acquired from normal social contact in the community; this is in contrast to nosocomial-acquired pneumonia, which is acquired during hospitalization [ 11].
Healthcare-acquired (HA) MRSA is defined as an infection or colonisation, which is acquired during a hospital stay, and was not present or incubating on admission, and that occurs >48 hours after hospital admission or <48 hours after discharge (CHRISP, 2004).
Creationists cite epigenetics to assert that Darwin was wrong, and that epigenetics may show Lamarckian evolution – that is, acquired during life.
Specific immunity is acquired during the organism's lifetime and involves the activation of white blood cells (B and T lymphocytes), which distinguish and react to foreign substances.
Thus, the burden of the old karma is added to the new karma that is acquired during the next existence until the jiva frees itself by religious disciplines, especially by ahimsa ("nonviolence"), and rises to the place of liberated jivas at the top of the universe.
Helicobacter pylori is acquired during childhood, but its mode of transmission remains unclear.
Imaging is acquired during the scan process and data analysis is post-processed.
Since imprint at this locus is acquired during spermatogenesis in the male germ-line, we hypothesized role for estrogen signaling in the methylation dynamics in the testis.
The goal of respiratory gating is to collect data that is acquired during the quiescent phase, which is closest to end expiration (b, quiescent phase).
However, a shortcoming of MLPs is that the knowledge that is acquired during training is distributed across their connection weights in a complex manner that is often difficult to interpret.
We show here that stomatal sensitivity to the drought hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is acquired during leaf development by exposure to an increasingly dryer atmosphere in the rosette plant Arabidopsis.
