(n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
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) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(4) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(6) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(7) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(8) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(9) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(10) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
(11) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
(12) Both demographically and clinically assessed behavioral variables were related to a number of outcome measures, including days in the community, clinical ratings, and family assessment.
(13) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(14) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
(15) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(16) The ability of myo-inositol to reverse behavioral effects of lithium was tested using chronic inositol administration or acute intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
(17) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(18) Our interest in the role of association brain structures during this behavior is not occasional.
(19) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
(20) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
Deportment
Definition:
(n.) Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sabogal was one of a group of four Colombians who took over the reins of the country's biggest drug-trafficking outfit after the arrest and deportation to the United States of drug baron Luis Hernando Gómez Bustamante in 2004.
(2) The pair’s colleague, Baher Mohamed, is ineligible for deportation as he only holds an Egyptian passport.
(3) In the present paper the human pulmonary trophoblastic deportation was studied in 180 sputum specimens from 90 pregnant, parturient and puerperal patients.
(4) Those who have committed a crime on British soil can expect to serve their prison sentence, and then be held in a prison-like detention centre with no definite date of release while the UK Border Agency works out how or if they can be deported – a process that can take months, or even years.
(5) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
(6) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(7) This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a five-time deported Mexican with a long criminal record, who was forced back into the United States because they didn’t want him in Mexico.
(8) Eventually I discovered that of around 100 people from my town who were deported, only about 10 survived, only two of whom were children – my sister and me.
(9) Instead of ordering deportation of the three absent juveniles, Judge A Ashley Tabaddor agreed with their attorney, Miguel Mexicano, an Esperanza staffer, that the cases should be rescheduled and relocated.
(10) Randall, a former banking computer analyst and a widower with two grownup daughters, learned on Wednesday that charges of "trafficking obscene material" had been dropped and he was to be deported.
(11) It would have been better if they had killed me.” Naseri was forcibly deported in August 2014, but the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) ruling to send him back was made in December 2012, based on security advice at that time.
(12) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
(13) Some of those awaiting deportation have been living in Australia for decades.
(14) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
(15) The case raises serious questions about political interference in deportation and how Britain's human rights obligations can be undermined.
(16) Over the past six years, the Home Office has deported 605 Afghans who arrived in the UK as unaccompanied minors, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism .
(17) But she did tell MPs that the minimum effect of this week's events would be to delay Qatada's deportation for at least another two months while a panel of Strasbourg judges met to decide whether his appeal was made in time.
(18) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
(19) Theresa May rightly took comfort from the fact that the ruling does not prevent the government from deporting other foreign nationals.
(20) Around 40% of all Mexicans deported from the US are repatriated into Tijuana , on Mexico's Pacific coast.