(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 .
Wickedness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.
(n.) A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.
Example Sentences:
(1) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
(2) Tony Abbott has recently delivered an explicit warning that the Daesh death cult is “coming for us”, however, Turnbull argued it was important not to get sucked into the Isis strategy “and ourselves become amplifiers of their wickedness and significance”.
(3) It is towards an anti-government fervour that recalls the militia movement of the 1990s, convinced that every Washington move – even a plan to expand healthcare – is motivated by wickedness and constitutes a step towards tyranny.
(4) Less welcome was Professor Griff's 1989 interview with the Washington Times where he condemned Jews as responsible for 'the majority of the wickedness that goes on across the globe'.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn resigns, taking responsibility for the German carmaker’s rigging of US emissions tests Yet it would be simplistic to blame the wickedness of the industry and to suppose that the consumers involved were entirely innocent idealists, cruelly misled by unscrupulous marketeers.
(6) I know we are supposed to present them as extreme wickedness but they don’t appear like that to lots of Labour voters who thought this was mainstream Labour policy.
(7) There is a certain perverse charm to what appears to be Sepp’s final mission: exposing the weaknesses and wickedness of everyone who has profited from his regime down the decades.
(8) Maybe that’s because Laurie’s Roper has been enter taining us for so long with his cool, his wit, his urbanity and his sheer wickedness that we don’t want to let him go.
(9) They lament western wickedness with the reliability of professional mourners.
(10) Before tragedy strikes, we must all take the initiative and talk to these families, listen to their problems but, ultimately, we must take proactive steps to help them before "hate" and "wickedness" take a hold.
(11) We now know the banks' tricks involved not just dubious wizardry but a measure of wickedness too.
(12) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
(13) When I asked my friend the professor of gender studies about all this stuff some time ago (I know this sounds like the overture to a joke, but it isn't), I was semi-secretly hoping for a jeremiad on the wickedness of princess-mania, and tips on how she'd saved her daughters from it.Actually, she said, one of hers had that obsession too, for a bit – but that other obsessions came along to supplant them.
(14) This warning about the lure of wickedness reveals how Prince’s vision of the battle between good and evil was much darker than Burton’s take.
(15) When the full extent of his wickedness was revealed, we put him in a box marked "monster".
(16) Just as some were putting the wickedness of Savile and his ilk in a box marked “long ago”, Rochdale broke and the abuse of children in care was revealed.
(17) Under the amendment the same buildings, the same canteen, the same umbrella stands, the same courses, the same bitching about Orbán and his wickedness can continue, and students can get a qualification recognised in Europe .
(18) Stories such as the prime minister’s surprisingly resilient support for the charity, the lobbying of a Conservative party co-treasurer – James Lupton – and the embedding of two civil servants to help restructure the organisation somehow became examples of the wickedness that had taken root in the charity.
(19) What many people seem to want is to be confirmed in their view that all of this is down to the personal wickedness of a single individual; arrest Blair, clap him in irons at The Hague, and everything will return to a state of primal, unsullied innocence.
(20) The virtue of Israel and the wickedness of her enemies are recurring themes in his work."