Glossary of Sanskrit Terms

Glossary of Methodologic Terms

Before-After Trial: Investigation of therapeutic alternatives in which individuals of 1 period and under a single treatment are compared with individuals at a subsequent time, treated in a different fashion. If the disorder is not fatal and the "before" treatment is not curative, the same individuals may be studied in the before and after periods, strengthening the design through increased grou...

Glossary of Printing Terms

CMYK Printers use CMYK – representing the colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks, when printing 4-color process work. These are called subtractive colors, as combining them all gives the color black. Subtracting one or more of these colors will yield any other color. When combined in various percentages, these four inks will create an entire spectrum of colors, including those used in col...

Glossary of Epidemiological Terms

ACCURACY and PRECISION. Accuracy is the extent to which a measurement reflects the true value. It is the tendency of test measurement to center around the true value. "Precise" means sharply defined or measured. Data can be very precise, but inaccurate. It would be precise but inaccurate to say that a meter equals 29.3748 inches. It would actually be more accurate to say that a meter equals a l...

Glossary of Philosophical Terms

absolutism The view that there are some types of action that are strictly prohibited by morality, no matter what the specific facts are in a particular case. Some have held, for example, that the intentional torturing or killing of an innocent person is morally impermissible no matter what bad consequences could be prevented by such an action. Absolutism is an especially strict kind of deontolo...

Glossary Of Alpaca Terms