quantification

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The accessibility to compartments and the global binding energy landscape faced by biomolecules are important parameters determining their function, and their quantification is an essential task for cell biology.

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  1. The act of attaching quantity to anything: as, the quantification of the predicate.
  2. The act of determining the quantity.
  3. Quantification of the predicate the attaching of the signs of logical quantity, every and some, to the predicates of propositions. The resulting propositional forms, according to Hamilton, the protagonist of the opinion that this should be done in formal logic, are: All A is all B; any A is not any B; all A is some B; any A is not some B; some A is all B; sonic A is not any B; some A is some B; some A is not some B. But these forms include but one decidedly useful addition to the usual scheme (all A is all B), and are systematic only in appearance, as De Morgan has abundantly shown. The doctrine essentially implies that the copula should be considered as a sign of identity; the usual doctrine makes it a sign of inclusion. According to the most modern school of formal logicians, the question is not of great importance, but should be decided against the quantification of the predicate. Aristotle examined and rejected the quantification of the predicate, on the ground that Every A is every B can be true only if A and B are one individual. The doctrine of the quantification of the predicate, set forth in 1827 by Mr. George Bentham, and again set forth under a numerical form by Professor De Morgan, is a doctrine supplementary to that of Aristotle. H. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 223.

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  • The accessibility to compartments and the global binding energy landscape faced by biomolecules are important parameters determining their function, and their quantification is an essential task for cell biology. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • If you could kind of give us a quantification, perhaps of this one off project and how that might impact the third and fourth quarters, if at all? —  Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • Real-time PCR is being used increasingly as the method of choice for mRNA quantification, allowing rapid analysis of gene expression from low quantities of starting template. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Because they defy quantification, concepts like human dignity and liberty are precluded from a purely scientific interpretation of governance.
  • "With Pyrosequencing, we are adding nothing less but a proven gold standard for high-resolution sequence detection and quantification which, due to its high level of reliability, accuracy, ease-of-use and cost-efficiency is widely used in today's next generation sequencing technologies." —  LabTechnologist RSS
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  1. from New Latin as if *quantificatio(n-), from quantificare, quantify: see quantify.
 

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