(a.) Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.
(a.) Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.
(a.) Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.
(a.) Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2) Left-right PHR coherence spectra had no distinct peaks, indicating that correlations between opposite PHR discharges were now not frequency specific.
(2) Clearly, it is impossible to combine the diverse information briefly outlined in this review to provide a coherent model of the regulation of globin gene expression during development.
(3) Statistical analysis allows a more coherent approach of these problems.
(4) Comparison with values of the total current dipole moment obtained from neuromagnetic studies on human subjects indicates that coherent neuronal activity giving rise to long-latency sensory evoked components recorded in the human electroencephalogram or magnetoencephalogram extends over a cortical area that is typically approximately 40-400 mm2.
(5) He told journalists he was concerned about the risk that government departments were not acting coherently because of a lack of energy and leadership.
(6) For amineptine the total body clearance and mean residence time were accurate and precise with eight volunteers, but only four volunteers showed such coherent data for the slope of the elimination curve, beta, and half-life.
(7) The coherence values are measures of coupling between two neuronal populations.
(8) Lower than normal anterior interhemispheric coherence was found in all four frequency bands.
(9) The detection of health inequalities in the urban environment and their magnitude depends to a great extent on the internal social coherence of the geographical division used.
(10) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
(11) Coherence discriminations were less accurate when the target transformation was added to another background transformation, indicating that these transformations are not visually independent.
(12) Strength of interaction was measured by the coherence between the EEGs from symmetrical contralateral locations.
(13) Moreover, these notions take root within a coherent cosmological matrix which emphasizes the socially ordered flow of fertility fluids.
(14) We found that methods of classifying responses as oscillating used in some of the studies of the cat may have led to overestimation of both the number of sites showing oscillation and the number of pairs of sites showing phase coherence.
(15) Complete assignments were obtained for the backbone 1H, 15N and 13C resonances, using three-dimensional heteronuclear 1H NOE 1H-15N multiple-quantum coherence spectroscopy (3D-NOESY-HMQC) and three-dimensional heteronuclear total correlation 1H-15N multiple-quantum coherence spectroscopy (3D-TOCSY-HMQC) experiments on 15N-enriched HPr and an additional three-dimensional triple-resonance 1HN-15N-13C alpha correlation spectroscopy (HNCA) experiment on 13C, 15N-enriched HPr.
(16) The coherence between the recordings made from the right and left legs decreased by > 10% at each contraction level.
(17) Velocity data employed in the analysis are taken from in vivo measurements in the dog aorta, and the results indicate that the autoregressive method improves the resolution of coherent features in disturbed flow patterns.
(18) Averaged power and coherence spectra (between transversally adjacent electrodes and between electrodes on homologous regions of both hemispheres) were computed.
(19) The Raman contribution to the third order susceptibility is shown to be complex near an electronic resonance and the resulting features of the coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectra are discussed in detail.
(20) The structures of the new compounds were determined by chemical and spectroscopic methods, including two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (2D NMR) techniques, especially 1H-detected heteronuclear multiple-bond multiple-quantum coherence.
Fluent
Definition:
(n.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.
(a.) Flowing or capable of flowing; liquid; glodding; easily moving.
(a.) Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech.
(n.) A current of water; a stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fundamental frequency of the children's dysfluent speech was higher than their fluent speech while there was no difference in the teenager's speech.
(2) We conclude from these six studies that: (a) BN presents a counter-example to the claim that non-fluent patients have particular difficulty with those aspects of morphology which have a syntactic function; (b) BN processes both derived and inflected words by mapping the sensory input onto the entire full-form of a complex word, but the semantic and syntactic content of the stem alone is accessed and integrated into the context.
(3) During subsequent assessments, agrammatic aphasics reveal on a metalinguistic judgment task their significant difficulty appreciating the grammatical form class of "bice"; on an object classification task, fluent aphasics are significantly impaired in their classification of bice-colored objects as "bice."
(4) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(5) Hypotheses that fluent braille depends (i) on coding letters by global outline shape for all task and speed levels, or (ii) on lateral dot-gap density scanning in fast reading for meaning were tested with three groups of fluent braillists who differed in reading speeds.
(6) In this article, acoustic analyses are reported which show that the spectral properties of stuttered vowels are similar to the following fluent vowel, so it would appear that the stutterers are articulating the vowel appropriately.
(7) Lesions were retrorolandic in 8 out of 9 fluent aphasics while extending anteriorly in all 6 nonfluent aphasics.
(8) A strain gauge system was used to transduce lip and jaw movements during fluent repetitions of "sapapple" in adult stutterers and nonstutterers.
(9) One official joked that insisting on French would cause problems: “It would not be possible for me.” Speculation that English would be abandoned by Brussels emerged on the day after the referendum when the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, who is fluent in English, conducted his Brexit press conference in French.
(10) This investigation compared the speech naturalness ratings of perceptually fluent speech samples produced by nonstutterers and stutterers who had been treated in six different therapy programs.
(11) During the following four to 12 weeks, 12% of fluent aphasics died, and 12% remained moderately or severely impaired; among survivors, aphasia improved in 74%, and in 44% it cleared completely.
(12) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
(13) Students with learning disabilities were not as fluent in word production and in the number of different words used in their compositions as their non-learning-disabled peers.
(14) On Tuesday night Sinn Féin’s chairman, Declan Kearney, himself a fluent Irish speaker, accused the DUP of blocking moves towards equality during discussions at Stormont.
(15) The hypothesis that acoustic measures of relative speech timing remain constant across large changes in speaking rate was tested for fluent utterances produced by normal and neurogenically disordered speakers.
(16) Agrammatic Broca's and fluent (Wernicke's and anomic) aphasics were asked to name objects depicted in outline drawings as a means of testing their ability to identify and to name objects at the basic (e.g., "chair") and subordinate (e.g., "beach chair") levels.
(17) Despite his posh background as the privately educated son of an admiral, he has a decent – and outward-looking – backstory with his Chinese wife, fluent Japanese, love of lambada and success in building an educational publishing business employing 200 people.
(18) A 2014 report from the British Columbia Language Initiative – which seeks to revitalize the province’s First Nations languages – found that the number of semi-fluent speakers had risen significantly since 2010.
(19) An hierarchical pattern of severity across aphasia type emerged, with fluent aphasic subjects being the least and global aphasia subjects the most impaired both at the beginning and end of the first post stroke year.
(20) Being of Iranian descent, she is fluent in Farsi, which not only enables her to communicate with Iranians, but also with Afghans, a large group among the migrants.