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Attitudinize


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cognitive, attitudinal and skill objectives also have been identified.
  • (2) It has proven useful in developing attitudinal objectives, measuring achievement of these objectives and modifying teaching approaches in both undergraduate and continuing medical education.
  • (3) Multivariate analyses showed some significant post-programme attitudinal changes, with the older volunteers differing in some aspects from their younger counterparts.
  • (4) Correlations between FT and certain behavioral and attitudinal measures were found in the OC users but not the nonusers.
  • (5) For three attitudinal measures, "competence in management," "ability to advise parents," and "future relevance," only Funded residents demonstrated higher change scores for both behavioral and mixed disorders, relative to physical disorders; Funded and Not Funded residents were superior to Controls regarding behavioral disorders.
  • (6) There were no significant differences in demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal characteristics or HIV seroprevalence between the men who accepted and those who declined.
  • (7) It was predicted that social anomie could be translated into behavioral (attempted suicide) and attitudinal (normlessness and powerlessness) determinants when viewed with regard to its impact upon the family.
  • (8) Within specialities, women and men physicians frequently held similar attitudinal scores; however, controlling for age, sex accounted for more variation than did specialty.
  • (9) Results of evaluations for 49 students were examined to determine the effect of a simulated trial on both attitudinal change and cognitive growth in medical students.
  • (10) To better understand voluntary childlessness in America, attitudinal, motivational, and demographic factors associated with the phenomenon are examined.
  • (11) Both social demographic and attitudinal factors affect the likelihood of engaging in consumer behaviors.
  • (12) Additionally, strong attitudinal differences were identified among educators, practitioners, and students regarding treatment modalities and therapists' role characteristics.
  • (13) The attitudinal questionnaire reveals an atmosphere of collaboration among peers.
  • (14) Moreover, some favorable attitudinal alterations were noted among participants in AHES.
  • (15) Results lend support to use of attitudinal and experimental variables in predicting women's actual behaviors in relation to breast self-examination.
  • (16) Attitudinal and institutional biases and discriminatory practices must be combated, planning for community facilities and services must be improved, and funding for both institutional and community services must be provided during the phasing down of institutional services.
  • (17) And in an interview in this month’s Out magazine, Zachary Quinto, the gay Star Trek actor, warned of attitudinal shifts among gay men toward HIV .
  • (18) In this study population, the most frequent statistically significant intergroup differences in pain intensity and in behavioral, psychological, and attitudinal responses to pain are related to differences in ethnic identity and psychological coping style according to locus of control.
  • (19) These bombshells come in the absence of serious work – like the interim report of the McClure review – or indications that government is engaging with a meaningful program of broader reforms capable of addressing the many systemic and attitudinal barriers that keep too many people with disability out of the workforce.
  • (20) Responses to the attitudinal questions indicated that approximately 80% of the patients had positive attitudes.

Unnatural


Definition:

  • (a.) Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those searching for structural effects and those searching for meaning are potentially natural partners, a relationship much superior to being unnatural antagonists.
  • (2) Last week, Jindal told a conference that corporate America has fashioned an “unnatural alliance with the radical left” by opposing so-called religious freedom bills that gay rights activists fear would give businesses a license to discriminate.
  • (3) These findings suggest that the neural circuits underlying auditory spatial sensitivity of IC neurons of the monaurally plugged juvenile bats have undergone modifications to compensate for the unnatural binaural disparity during postnatal development.
  • (4) Yet many Africans who are at risk of infection reject condoms as "unnatural."
  • (5) In unnatural death cases the BAC under 0.05% was found in 64% of the suicides, 62% of the accidents, 54% of the homicides and 51% of the drug intoxications.
  • (6) A quarter (71) of the deaths reported were unnatural, verdicts of suicide or accidental death or open verdicts having been recorded.
  • (7) These results suggest the possibility that stuttering treatments that employ strategies like gentle voicing onset and prolonged speech may result in somewhat slower posttherapy speech patterns characterized by prolonged VOTs that could influence listeners to judge the speech as more unnatural than the speech of nonstutterers.
  • (8) Thus only pathologists are allowed to certify unnatural causes of death.
  • (9) 5: 423-429, 1973), appears to restrict blood flow by placing unnatural tension on the retractor muscle and by requiring an incision in the tip of the pouch.
  • (10) Inhibitory action is potentiated both in vitro and in vivo by the addition of leucovorin (LV; either the natural [6S] isomer or the mixture of the unnatural and natural [6R,S] isomers).
  • (11) 5) With respect to the facial aesthetics of the case presented as one of reference, 42.7, 15.9 and 13.3% pointed out mandibular deviation, ocular prostheses and condition of contact of the maxillofacial prostheses with the skin, respectively, to be unnatural.
  • (12) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
  • (13) Methylation of PE and random acyl chain migration across different phospholipid classes were marginal, but the exchange of PC for PE, apparently mediated by the action of phospholipase, was indicated after uptake of the unnatural PC( delta 9-27:1, delta 9-26:1).
  • (14) Three-hundred-and-thirty cases of unnatural death, leading to 110 open verdicts, 110 verdicts of suicide and 110 of accident, from the Inner West London Coroner's District have been examined to see if particular coroner's officers or pathologists were associated with disproportionate numbers of suicide verdicts.
  • (15) During this phase, the head might be subjected to unnatural position which is maintained for a certain period.
  • (16) A number of unnatural amino acids and amino acid analogs with modified backbone structures were substituted for alanine-82 in T4 lysozyme.
  • (17) Heavier drinkers were at greater risk for death from noncardiovascular causes (relative risk at greater than or equal to 6 drinks per day compared with no alcohol = 1.6, 95% Cl, 1.3 to 2.0) especially cirrhosis, unnatural death, and tobacco-related cancers.
  • (18) Cyanogen bromide catalyzes the formation not only of phosphodiester, but also of unnatural phosphoramide and pyrophosphate interoligomer bonds.
  • (19) On Tuesday the Israeli general Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a "critical year" for Iran, in part because of "things that happen to it unnaturally".
  • (20) According to definitions of medical malpractice and of unnatural death it is established that medical measures under criminal principles of causality come into consideration as causes of death even without proof of guilt.

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