(v. t.) To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
(v. t.) To take up or introduce beforehand, or before the proper or normal time; to cause to occur earlier or prematurely; as, the advocate has anticipated a part of his argument.
(v. t.) To foresee (a wish, command, etc.) and do beforehand that which will be desired.
(v. t.) To foretaste or foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(2) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(3) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(4) However, the level of sequence identity between B. nodosus 351 pilin and pilin from strain 265 of serogroup H1 is lower than anticipated for strains within a serogroup and suggests that B. nodosus 265 and B. nodosus 351 should not be classified within the same serogroup.
(5) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
(6) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(7) The survival time of the lambs was markedly shortened with the bubble oxygenator, although much longer than had been anticipated.
(8) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(9) Early diagnosis and exact resuscitation are the two most important aspects of a plan of treatment which anticipates the need for early surgery.
(10) Intraoperative anesthetic complications can be prevented or minimized if the anesthetist is able to anticipate such problems in the preanesthetic period.
(11) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
(12) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
(13) Thorough knowledge of the modes of ventilatory support and criteria for weaning are essential for the critical care nurse to anticipate patient needs.
(14) We anticipate that Tyr34, whose hydroxyl group is only 5 A from the metal, is involved in the catalytic reaction.
(15) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
(16) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(17) But the bill anticipates the outcome by seeking to widen government powers to enable more people to be given support in the form of direct payments, for services up to and including residential care.
(18) A high incidence of bacteremia and localized bacterial infection should be anticipated in patients with AIDS who receive interleukin-2.
(19) Computerized tomography before anticipated percutaneous stone extraction revealed the colon to be positioned posterior to the left portion of the horseshoe kidney.
(20) If radiation therapy is anticipated, completion of radical hysterectomy followed by radiation therapy appears to offer no advantage over radiation therapy with the uterus in place in patients with early-stage invasive cervical cancer and pelvic lymph node involvement.
Feedforward
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) By contrast, there was a highly significant correlation between the latency of principal cell EPSPs and IPSPs, in support of a feedforward model of inhibition.
(2) The central features of the diagram are a positive dopaminergic feedforward process and a positive feedback mechanism mediated by extrasynaptic substance P diffusing from striatal terminals to dopaminergic dendrites of the zona compacta neurons.
(3) Previous studies have indicated that motor center ("feedforward") activity is important for hormonal and metabolic responses to exercise.
(4) DLR receives only sparse feedforward input from V II, but stronger input from DLC.
(5) The results of a series of benchmarking studies based upon artificial statistical pattern recognition tasks indicate that the proposed architecture performs significantly better than conventional feedforward classifier networks when the decision regions are disjoint.
(6) The response of dentate granule cells to this stimulation was assumed to reflect activity in the larger hippocampal network, because other subpopulations of neurons activated monosynaptically and polysynaptically within the hippocampal formation contribute to granule cell excitability through multiple feedforward and feedback pathways.
(7) Furthermore, the proximal location of the clutch-cell inputs to the labelled dendrite suggests a strategic siting of intracortical feedforward inhibition.
(8) Cobalt at 0.5 mM thus blocks the light-evoked action of the cone feedback synapse while sparing feedforward synaptic transmission from cones to horizontal cells.
(9) Effects of dynamic coupling, gravity, inertia and the mechanical impedances of the segments of a multi-jointed arm are shown to be neutralizable through a reflex-like operating three layer static feedforward network.
(10) In fast movements, all the body segments were displaced at the same time, which suggests a feedforward control, whereas in slow movements, onset of displacement of the body segments was found to take place sequentially in a cranio-caudal direction.
(11) The present study showed that, even under irregular stimulations, pursuit eye movement is regulated in a feedforward manner by the perceptual analysis of the preceding target motion, and that corrective saccades in pursuit eye movement correspond to those observed in step displacements, except for the programming on the basis of the changing rate of position error.
(12) The baseline response also showed some indication of depression, particularly in the dentate gyrus kindled group, raising the possibility that feedforward inhibition had also been potentiated.
(13) In the previous paper of this series, I showed that such cells emerge spontaneously during the development of a simple multilayered network having local but initially random feedforward connections that mature, one layer at a time, according to a simple development rule (of Hebb type).
(14) Feedforward stabilization of hand position was observed in all subjects.
(15) Results are given for (a) a simple linear pathway without feedback or feedforward regulation, and (b) a linear pathway with feedback inhibition.
(16) One interpretation of this pattern of results is that the output of CA1 pyramidal cells is maintained roughly constant in spite of reduced input from CA3 because of a proportional reduction in feedforward inhibition.
(17) The control of depth of anaesthesia has been viewed as a control-system problem the solution of which can involve both feedback and feedforward techniques.
(18) The GMR models are compared to autoregressive transfer function models and feedforward back propagation neural network models.
(19) To determine whether feedforward control of liver glycogenolysis during exercise is subject to negative feedback by elevated blood glucose, glucose was infused into exercising rats at a rate that elevated blood glucose greater than 10 mM.
(20) Possible biological implications of these results are destabilization of metabolic units by transport processes and feedforward catalysis.