Word Finder - incidence

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The act of something happening; occurrence.

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The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.

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The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.

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The striking of radiation or a projectile upon a surface.

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A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.

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The falling of a point on a line, or a line on a plane.

Another exception to the incidence of tithes were abbey lands.

After the administration of justice he directed his organizing activity, as the circumstances demanded, chiefly towards financial questions - the incidence of taxation in the conquered territories,' and the application of the vast resources which poured into the treasury at Medina.

Differences of refractive index produce their greatest dispersive effects when incidence on the refracting surface is nearly tangential.

Light from an arc lamp was so directed that only that part reached the spectroscope which fell upon the flame of the burner at grazing incidence, and was thereby refracted.

The distinction between a burial ground provided under the Burial Acts and a cemetery provided under the act of 1879 is important in many ways, of which one only need be mentioned here - the expenses under the Burial Acts are paid out of the poor rate, while the expenses under the act of 1879 are paid in an urban district out of the general district rate, the incidence of which differs materially from that of the poor rate, as will be seen hereafter.

In the course of fifty years, it may be said, the balance will be rectified, and the whole class to which the individuals belong, and the property they own, will be visited in turn, so that this taxation should be credited to them in an account of the incidence of taxes generally; but fifty years is altogether too long a period for such adjustments to be made.

Exceptionally, it may be added, as regards the licence taxes, which occupy quite an inferior place in the British system of taxation for imperial purposes, that the question whether some of them are not really direct in their incidence on the first person charged may also be raised, although they are classed with indirect taxes.

The population of the city is 821,764, but during the earlier plague period large numbers fled, so that the foregoing figures do not give the true plague incidence according to population.

If the object point 0 be infinitely distant, u, and u 2 are to be replaced by h l and h 2, the perpendicular heights of incidence; the " sine condition " then becomes sin u',/h 1 = sin u' 2 /h 2 .

One difficulty is caused by the large proportion of the taxes in almost every system of taxation, and at any rate in the British system, where the exact incidence is in no way traceable, or where there is no sort of general agreement as to the incidence.

Thus a very large proportion of the total revenue cannot be made available for an account showing the incidence of taxation.

As soon divorce the investigation of the shape and material of a mirror from the laws of the incidence of the rays that form images in it, and call it a science of reflection!

So that, were a glass so exactly figured as to collect any one sort of rays into one point, it could not collect those also into the same point, which having the same Incidence upon the same Medium are apt to suffer a different refraction.

The zemstvos were originally given large powers in relation to the incidence of taxation, and such questions as education, public health, roads and the like.

These, it is said, can be distributed among different classes of tax-payers, because the income tax falls on the owners of incomes of all kinds of property subject to the duty, if their incomes are above a certain limit, while the incidence of customs and excise duties can be ascertained by inquiries as to the consumption of dutiable articles by different classes.

To establish, therefore, any fair account of the incidence of indirect taxes on different classes of the community, real classes being distinguished, and not a mere rough grouping into so-called classes of units who are altogether heterogeneous, is probably beyond the skill of man.

In studying equality, moreover, local taxation must be brought into view, with even more impracticable differences of opinion as to the real incidence of the taxation.

Examining the light reflected from the windows of the Luxemburg palace with a doubly refracting prism, he was led to infer (though more refined experiments have shown that this is not strictly the case) that light reflected at a certain angle, called the polarizing angle, from the surface of transparent substances has the same properties with respect to the plane of incidence as those of the ordinary stream in Iceland spar with respect to the principal plane of the crystal.

Thus in accordance with the definition, it is polarized in the plane of incidence.

Further, if polarized light fall at the polarizing angle on a reflecting surface, the intensity of the reflected stream depends upon the azimuth of the plane of incidence, being proportional to the square of the cosine of the angle between this plane and the plane of the polarization.

At angles other than the polarizing angle common light gives a reflected stream .that behaves as a mixture of common light with light polarized in the plane of incidence, and is accordingly said to be partially polarized in that plane.

Arago showed that at all angles of incidence the reflected and refracted streams contain equal quantities of polarized light.

It follows then that if a stream of light be incident at the polarizing angle on a pile of parallel transparent plates of the same nature, each surface in turn will be met by the light at the polarizing angle and will give rise to a reflected portion polarized in the plane of incidence.

When light from an extended source is made to converge upon the crystal, the phenomenon of rings and brushes localized at infinity is obtained.The exact calculation of the intensity in this case is very complicated and the resulting expression is too unwieldy to be of any use, but as an approximation the formula for the case of a parallel beam may be employed, the quantities and p therein occurring being regarded as functions of the angle and plane of incidence and consequently as variables.

The determination of the curves of constant retardation depends upon expressing the retardation in terms of the optical constants of the crystal, the angle of incidence and the azimuth of the plane of incidence.

If the incident light be polarized in a plane, making an angle a with the plane of incidence, the stream may be resolved into two that are polarized in the principal azimuths, and these will be reflected in accordance with the above laws.

In the contrary case, total reflection commences as soon as sin i =µ 1, µ being still the relative refractive index of the more highly refracting medium; and for greater angles of incidence r becomes imaginary.

Although tizanidine is related to the centrally acting antihypertensive clonidine, it has a relatively low incidence of systemic hypotension.

In the mouse study, there was a significant increase in the incidence of hepatocellular adenoma or carcinoma.

The incidence of the potentially life threatening peanut allergy has doubled during the last ten years.

The incidence of retinal angioma does not appear to be correlated with specific germline mutations.

Previous data have suggested that an epidural may increase the incidence of chronic backache.

Cancer incidence was determined by linkage with the Danish cancer incidence was determined by linkage with the Danish Cancer Registry.

The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between specific dietary carotenoids and the incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD ).

The incidence of infected cattle is still increasing, with 30,000 infected animals destroyed over the last four years.

An Action Medical Research team has been looking at ways of reducing the incidence of hip dislocation in children with bilateral cerebral palsy.

The incidence of meningococcal disease remains comparable with the corresponding quarter of 1997.

Matta reported a 5% incidence of infection but was able to manage these cases successfully with early aggressive debridement.

Because of its effect on increasing blood flow to the gut, spinal anesthesia reduces the incidence of anastomotic dehiscence.

At diagnosis, the incidence of p16 homozygous and hemizygous deletion in this group was 32% and 20% respectively.

This is important when considering elderly people because of the rise in age related cardiac problems and the incidence of mature onset diabetes mellitus.

There is evidence that the cumulative steroid dosage is directly related to the incidence of unwanted effects.

This study has been included, looking only at the effect of subglottic drainage on the incidence of VAP.

Murray ADN, Calcutt C. The incidence of amblyopia in longstanding untreated infantile esotropia.

The incidence of AAR is greater among patients who have rejected a previous graft.

Thus, it might be expected that non-specific immunosuppression would lead to an increase in the incidence of cancer in transplant patients.

These factors may actually increase the incidence of the problem in a highly inbred line.

There is also abundant observational information showing that frequent use of NSAIDs or aspirin is associated with reduced incidence of some cancers.

New Zealand now has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world.

In 2002, GROS published an Occasional Paper entitled ' The raised incidence of Winter Deaths ' .