(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.
Enclave
Definition:
(n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.
(v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(2) Commanders in the besieged Libyan rebel enclave of Misrata have complained that Nato has ignored requests for air support during a week of heavy attacks by pro-Gaddafi forces.
(3) Among the most serious charges he faced involved responsibility for the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.
(4) Putin's call on Sunday for the regularisation of the enclave's status would, paradoxically, put human rights on a more stable footing.
(5) The bomb hit a cultural centre in the small, predominantly Kurdish town, where hundreds of members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations had gathered for a press briefing before a visit to the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Kobani to help with the reconstruction of the destroyed town.
(6) The latest tunnel was found during an Israeli military operation 100 metres into the Gaza side of the border in the Palestinian coastal enclave’s south.
(7) Nor, incidentally, is thigh-gap obsession new, it's just that it has only recently transferred over from the myopic enclave of the fashion world.
(8) Chibok is an enclave of mainly Christian families in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.
(9) The son of a railway worker, Aliev was born in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani enclave in Armenia.
(10) "All fingerprint information is encrypted and stored securely in the Secure Enclave inside the A7 chip on the iPhone 5s," Apple said in a statement.
(11) Srebrenica remains a form of enclave, a Bosnian Muslim-governed island in the Serb half of Bosnia, whose strongman leader, Milorad Dodik, plays down the crimes committed and regularly calls for the breakup of Bosnia-Herzegovina .
(12) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(13) It was parked 100 metres or so away from the small one-roomed, one storey brick home Singh shared with his brother, who remains on trial, in the slum neighbourhood of Ravi Das colony, an enclave of poverty in otherwise relatively wealthy south Delhi.
(14) The US – which has repeatedly called on its Nato ally Turkey to provide more than humanitarian support to the Syrian Kurdish enclave – welcomed the peshmerga deployment, calling it a “step to degrade and ultimately defeat” Isis.
(15) This is the case with the enclavement and metatarsal osteotomies such as the Watermann procedure (25, 26).
(16) One 2007 NYPD report, titled "Radicalization in the West: the Homegrown Threat", stated that "enclaves of ethnic populations that are largely Muslim often serve as 'ideological sanctuaries' for the seeds of radical thought".
(17) In a speech prepared for delivery at a British thinktank, Jindal said some immigrants are seeking “to colonise western countries, because setting up your own enclave and demanding recognition of a no-go zone are exactly that”.
(18) Occasionally, Sting sings in the sort of broad Newcastle accent he has never revealed before, the one he has previously felt placed him back in the small terraced street he grew up in, a place he once described as an "enclave of banality".
(19) She’s a moderator of the ShitRedditSays subreddit, known as SRS, which began as a collection of all the worst quotes of Reddit and has evolved into a sort of enclave within the site for people who have deep concerns about the main community.
(20) This study compares modifications of Regnauld's enclavement procedure, the in situ "hat-shaped" and in situ "inverted" osteochondral graft.