(1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(4) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(5) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
(6) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(7) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(8) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
(9) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
(10) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(11) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
(12) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(14) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(15) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(16) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
(17) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
(18) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(19) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.
(20) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
Idiocy
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
Example Sentences:
(1) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
(2) The variations of cerebrospinal fluid-free amino acids observed in coma have been compared with those reported by other authors in patients affected by epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, infantile amaurotic idiocy (GM2-gangliosidosis) and phenylketonuria.
(3) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
(4) Glycolipids were isolated from the brain of a patient with a myoclonic variant of late infantile amaurotic idiocy.
(5) Lymphocytes of the peripheral blood of 31 patients with juvenile amaurotic idiocy (juvenile form of ceroid lipofuscinosis) were examined with the electron microscope.
(6) ( justask ) Reduce the traffic in cities: driving into the city is idiocy, it really isn’t a necessity for most people.
(7) To outer appearances he is no different from a lunatic, but the mad saint comes to be revered because his idiocy is popularly believed to arise from a different cause than ordinary madness.
(8) In juvenile amaurotic idiocy, pleiomorphic cytosomes with prevalent curvilinear profiles can be found in the skin appendages; they are smaller, less abundant and a more careful search is necessary to discover them.
(9) Croatia have won 4-0 due in no small part to the idiocy of Alexandre Song, who was sent off in the first off for a preposterous show of petulance.
(10) They have seen indulgent laughter become raised eyebrows over Sarah Ferguson's idiocies.
(11) Diagnoses of their illnesses included infantile Gaucher disease; Krabbe disease; Niemann-Pick disease, type A; glycogen storage disease, type 3; Fabry disease, Jansky-Bielschowsky and Spielmeyer-Vogt types of amaurotic idiocy, GM1 gangliosidosis, type 1; Hurler disease; and Sanfilippo disease, types A and B.
(12) The likelihood of transition of one type inclusion body into another, the specificity of the curvilinear body and, to our mind, the rigid classification of the amaurotic idiocy into a curvilinear and a fingerprint type, are discussed.
(13) Those who survived such idiocy to make it in the goon squad then had to work to a mission statement that reads like something out of a Philip K Dick sci-fi dystopia—except that Philip K Dick never gave such offence to the English language as this: We consider the border not to be a purely physical barrier separating nation states, but a complex continuum stretching offshore and onshore, including the overseas, maritime, physical border and domestic dimensions of the border.
(14) Donald Trump’s announcement that the US will withdraw from the Paris agreement was always going to be an exercise in idiocy.
(15) Beard retweeted it to her 47,000 followers to out her abuser, but said she had now taken to writing job recommendations for Rawlings so he didn't suffer in the long term for "one moment of idiocy".
(16) A lmost nothing good came out of the 1960s – it was a miserable decade of rampant idiocy, sexually transmitted disease and rather disappointing grade marijuana.
(17) Harvey's idiocy referral probably reflects his allegiance to his own clinical observations in the face of opposing social norms and family advantage.
(18) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
(19) The brain and liver from a 7-year-old Japanese girl with juvenile amaurotic idiocy were examined neuropathologically and biochemically.
(20) Many of these are people with posh names, liberal-baiting sayers of the unsayable – the “unsayable” generally just being routine racism, sexism and idiocy.