(n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
(n.) The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
(n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
(n.) A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(2) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(3) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(4) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(5) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(6) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
(7) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(8) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(9) The aim of the study was to describe and evaluate background factors, with special regard to psychosocial characteristics that might possibly affect the outcome of rhinoplastic surgery.
(10) In the analysis of background fluorescence, the principal components were, as for the two-step technique, autofluorescence and propidium spectral overlap.
(11) Subjects' musical backgrounds were evaluated with a survey questionnaire.
(12) After 10-20 hr of culture, both membrane and cytoplasmic PKC activity had declined to background levels.
(13) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(14) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
(15) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(16) The technique is based on a multiple regression analysis of the renal curves and separate heart and soft tissue curves which together represent background activity.
(17) The electron spectroscopic diffraction (ESD) mode of operation of an energy-filtering electron microscope offers the possibility of being able to avoid the background from inelastic scattering in selected-area electron diffraction patterns.
(18) The absence of ACh therefore appears to reduce the cortical response to stimulation, while background activity values do not change.
(19) President Essebsi has promiised to govern for all Tunisians and said he had the technocratic background to manage security and economic challenges.
(20) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.
Parallax
Definition:
(n.) The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.
(n.) The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
(2) There is evidence that OKNe is also sensitive to relative depth cues such as motion parallax, which we suggest helps the system to segregate the object of regard from other elements in the scene.
(3) The 3D spine images were extremely true to life and could be rotated around all three principle axes (constituting a movie), so that an illusion of head-motion parallax was created.
(4) In the second experiment it was shown that stroboscopic illumination disrupted accurate jumping but animals could jump accurately to a platform when only the leading edge was visible, showing that they depend on motion cues but not motion parallax.
(5) Furthermore, there was good agreement when parallax analysis was applied both to quenching by brominated and spin-labeled molecules, suggesting that the analysis is valid in both cases.
(6) A monocularly viewed surface specified by parallax alone was seen as a rigid, corrugated surface translating along a fronto-parallel path.
(7) In each experiment three conditions were compared: an active condition in which the coupling of parallax shifts and observer's head movements operated, a passive condition in which it did not, and a real-life set-up to measure the maximum reliability in depth estimation.
(8) These findings indicate large visual illusions in the nighttime situation and suggest that the ineffectiveness of relative motion parallax may be an important part of night approach problems.
(9) This indicates that the depth reported by parallax analysis is accurate and that the spin labels residue very close to their predicted locations in the membrane.
(10) Various gait parameters were measured from high-speed film, and after parallax correction, compared with the theoretical predictions.
(11) To correct for parallax error, radiopaque markers are positioned between the patient and the x-ray source.
(12) The method involves determination of the parallax in the apparent location of fluorophores detected when quenching by phospholipids spin-labeled at two different depths is compared.
(13) Because of parallax, the relationship between the ilioischial line and the teardrop changes for views varying as little as 10 degrees in horizontal obliquity from the true AP roentgenogram.
(14) We previously introduced the "parallax" method, which uses fluorescence quenching by spin-labeled lipids in order to measure the depth of molecules within a membrane [Chattopadhyay, A., & London, E. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 39-45].
(15) To establish the extent to which a parallax-effect of differing angles of X-ray beam relative to the patient can influence the radiologic assessment of carinal level, we measured the tracheal-vertebral distance at the carina in 29 lateral radiographs of neonates, infants and children, prepared diagrams of the loci of carinal beam intercept of the vertebral column for different angles of beam to body, from tracings of lateral radiographs of two 2-week-old infants, one with trachea of normal length and one with short trachea; of a nine-year-old child with short trachea, and of a ten-year-old with normal trachea, and made radiographs of a postmortem tracheobronchogram of a two-day-old infant at different beam angles.
(16) This prediction was confirmed by the experimental determination of chromatic parallax for two commercially available achromatizing lenses.
(17) The hypothesis was tested that the coupling of parallax shifts between objects depicted on a monitor screen around a fixation point with the head movements of an observer viewing this screen monocularly around a point coinciding with the fixation point is sufficient to create a convincing depth impression and to enable the observer to make reliable estimations of depth.
(18) Traditionally, parallax disparities refer to points that are well defined within the objects, such as edges or boundaries.
(19) Additional experiments indicated that the deficit in performance by MS cats was not reduced either by the administration of amphetamine or by increases in cues for motion parallax.
(20) The next step was to demonstrate that parallax is also significant as a way of segmenting the visual scene into separate objects.