(1) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(2) Several investigators have used the Brier index to measure the predictive accuracy of a set of medical judgments; the Brier scores of different raters who have evaluated the same patients provides a measure of relative accuracy.
(3) • Richard David Briers, actor, born 14 January 1934; died 17 February 2013
(4) The integrated method significantly improved the quality of the physicians' judgments as measured by calibration curves and Brier scores, and increased the level of agreement between the physicians' judgments and those made by the clinical prediction rule.
(5) Briers, always the most modest and self-deprecating of actors, and the sweetest of men, relished the review, happy to claim a place in the light comedians' gallery of his knighted idols Charles Hawtrey, Gerald du Maurier and Noël Coward.
(6) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(7) I have a cherished recollection of meeting Briers when he played the second-string theatre critic, Moon, in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound in 1968 .
(8) Peter Egan, who starred opposite Richard Briers (and Downton's Penelope Wilton) in BBC1 sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, will also return in the new series, as Lord Flintshire.
(9) Stephen Fry, who worked with Briers in the 1992 film Peter's Friends, said on Twitter: "Oh no, I've just heard the news that Richard Briers has died.
(10) A simple average of the residents' and fellows' judgments was slightly but significantly more reliable by calibration curve and by Brier score, 0.117, and as discriminating (ROC area = 0.85, SE = 0.03) as the attending physicians' judgments.
(11) Ricky Gervais tweeted: "RIP the wonderful Richard Briers."
(12) Richard Briers on location for the BBC's Monarch of the Glen.
(13) • Richard Briers is honorary vice-president of the Parkinson's Disease Society and will be reading at the charity's annual concert at Central Hall, Westminster, on December 10.
(14) Kenith Trodd, the veteran television drama producer, said Briers' successes in popular sitcoms belied his talents as a serious actor.
(15) The Expert System's discriminatory ability in probabilistic prediction, assessed by a method based on continuous functions of the diagnostic probabilities (Brier score) was good.
(16) In classic Briers fashion, he entered beaming with a cup of cocoa at entirely the wrong moment.
(17) However, such comparisons may be difficult to interpret because of the lack of a statistical test for differentiating between two Brier scores.
(18) When he played Hamlet as a young man, Richard Briers , who has died aged 79 after suffering from a lung condition, said he was the first Prince of Denmark to give the audience half an hour in the pub afterwards.
(19) While doing his national service with the RAF, Briers attended evening classes in drama.
(20) We suggest that the proposed method can provide a useful tool for investigators using the Brier index to compare how well clinicians express uncertainty using probability judgments.
Drier
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
(n.) Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil painting to make it dry quickly.
(superl.) Alt. of Driest
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, in the case of foaming capacity, losses ranging from 17% to 34% were detected in the drum-dried hydrolysate, and of 38% to 49% in the hydrolysate dehydrated using a spray drier, during the first two months of storage.
(2) A greater number of viruses were identified in the cooler, drier months of the year.
(3) Patchy showers will continue throughout the weekend in some areas, she added, though in general conditions would be much drier than last weekend, when heavy rain and winds wrought havoc across south-west England and Wales.
(4) The tissue was transferred to a copper specimen block equipped with a thermocouple and heating circuit for accurate control of the environmental temperature of the tissue, and evacuated in a glass freeze-drier using clean high vacuum techniques for keeping the system free of hydrocarbons.
(5) What we showed is that even under natural conditions, it can become much drier than predicted by any of our models,” said Yael Kiro , a geochemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the US.
(6) Another risk is to Wi-Fi internet access and other communications because higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
(7) After lyophilization, residual moisture analysis demonstrated that under conditions of rapid freezing a drier product could be obtained.
(8) Record El Niño set to cause hunger for 10 million poorest, Oxfam warns Read more The chance of a drier than normal October for southern Australia is about 70%, with the probability rising to 80% in Victoria where the state government is attempting to find ways to get water to parched areas in the west of the state.
(9) The water firms bringing in restrictions say they are investing significant resources in fixing leaks, moving water resources from wetter to drier areas and encouraging their customers to save water.
(10) The last rainy season was drier than the dry season," Mauro Arce, São Paulo's water resources secretary, told the Guardian.
(11) When rotary (drum) filters are used for phase splitting and rotary driers for drying the moist potash fertilizers the emission rate of chlorohydrogen lies between 300 and 1,000 mg m-3.
(12) The culprit is a mini cicada called a cicadelle which French lavender producers believe has proliferated because of hotter, drier summers, blamed on global warming.
(13) As the samples became drier, their porosity increased, and the predominant mode of moisture transport was by vapor phase diffusion.
(14) Deliberate hypotension can reduce major blood loss and indelicate operations can produce a drier field increasing the ease of surgery and the likelihood of a good result.
(15) The method involves the use of two selective collectors, a high output rotatory freeze-drier, two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography and gas chromatography.
(16) Other issues highlighted by the report include changes in wildlife migration, alterations in species communities as plants and animals fail to move fast enough to thrive, sewer overflows polluting the coast, changes in the soil, erosion from heavier rains, loss of staff working-time from heat stress, changes in fish stocks, and wildfires in drier summers.
(17) The middle latitudes in between, those are already the arid and semi-arid parts of the world and they are getting drier."
(18) "Hotter, drier, a longer fire season, and lot more homes that we have to deal with," Tidwell told the Guardian following his appearance.
(19) The change concentrates salt in the water left behind, and is predicted to make southern Europe and the Mediterranean much drier in future.
(20) Tests of the water content of soiled bedding showed the forced-air ventilation system to provide a much drier environment for the rodents.