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nonrandom

(ˌnɒnˈrændəm)
adj
not random
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Adj. 1. nonrandom - not random
random - lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random movements"
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WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- After adjustment for the nonrandom exit of clinicians, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) is not associated with improvements in spending or quality, according to a study published online June 18 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
In majority of cases of B-cell ALL there is an abnormal karyotype which is seen in the form of nonrandom numerical or structural changes that can be detected by cytogenetic analyses.5 Cytogenetic study is now routinely done in acute leukaemia to not only help in diagnosis but it also plays a role in patient management and prognosis.
The significantly nonrandom (southerly) orientation of egg cases, previously unreported but observed in all 3 y, is an unexpected result and prompted our hatching study and the later ibutton/temperature study.
Geneticists, cancer specialists, and pathologists from Europe and North America describe the history of the field, cytogenetic methods and nomenclature, and nonrandom chromosome abnormalities in cancer; hematologic malignancies and lymphomas; and cytogenetic and molecular genetic knowledge on solid tumors.
Inference issues aside, the fact that nonrandom heaping can bias estimated treatment effects raises several important questions that we will address in turn.
Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth
By contrast, the study offers weaker evidence in support of the composition-based explanation of rising productivity, according to which the surge in per-worker output in economic downturns results from nonrandom shifts in the skill level of the workforce.
In order to test the classifier we looked on the Internet for a publicly available repository of standard files, here intended as files more likely to be found on a computer (which should be classified nonrandom).
In the study, Yukiko Yamashita and colleagues explained how stem cells can distinguish between two identical copies of chromosomes and distribute them to the daughter cells in a process called nonrandom chromosome segregation.

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