What's the difference between conditionate and contingency?
Conditionate
Definition:
(v. t.) Conditional.
(v. t.) To qualify by conditions; to regulate.
(v. t.) To put under conditions; to render conditional.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(2) Most bonding systems use acidic conditioners designed to remove the smear layer and demineralize the dentin surface.
(3) And speaking of hot, apparently the air conditioner is on the fritz there in San Antonio.
(4) Two hypotheses, allowing to explain the properties of polystyrene as a soil conditioner, were investigated: the first is concerned with a possible action of soil microorganisms on the compound; the second, reciprocally, with the polystyrene interference on microorganisms.
(5) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
(6) Combinations of undercut dimensions and tray relief were tested by using three different sized trays with each tissue conditioner.
(7) Mr Trump is a businessman, and he has proven to Carrier that if he has the authority to hit them heavily with tariffs, they’ll make a lot less money if they go to Mexico.” Carrier also had to consider that it made a well-known consumer product – air conditioners – and that if Trump were to step up his attacks against the company if it moved its Indianapolis factory, that could badly hurt the company’s image and cause angry consumers to turn to other manufacturers for their air conditioners.
(8) Treatments with primers including adhesive monomers such as Scotchprep and Mirage Conditioner also increased the dentin permeability by removal of the smear layers and smear plugs.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest How keeping cool is making us hot - video animation The air-conditioner industry in India is expecting to grow by up to 8% this year alone, with similar growth over coming years.Urban experts estimate that 60% of India’s housing stock will be air-conditioned by 2030, implying a massive potential energy demand.
(10) While protein catabolism and several indices of fat metabolism appear to be conditionable, no evidence of environmental control of glycemic responses was observed.
(11) We hypothesize that a number of host defense responses such as natural killer (NK) cell activity, cytotoxic lymphocyte (CTL) activity, antibody production, and elevated body temperature (TR) might be conditionable.
(12) The residual sludge was added to agricultural soil as a conditioner.
(13) We heat our house in winter and use an air conditioner in summer.
(14) 66, 1750-1757 (1980)], even when the conditioner and the probe are different sounds [P. L. Divenyi and J. Blauert, in Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds, edited by W. A. Yost and C. S. Watson (Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1987), pp.
(15) It might be interesting to establish whether melatonin levels may conditionate the prognosis of patients with cancer.
(16) VRA performance was classified as unacceptable, marginal, or acceptable based on conditionability and number of responses obtained before habituation to the task.
(17) Humidifier lung is a form of exogenous-allergic alveolitis caused by microbial growth in humidifiers and air conditioners.
(18) This result is attributed primarily to wide use of evaporative air conditioners for daytime cooling in the summer together with the fact that doors and windows are left open frequently during evening and nighttime hours.
(19) Interviews were conducted to determine: exposure to pets and to gases, vapours and dusts from hobbies; the use of gas stoves; fireplaces, air conditioners and humidifiers; type of heating systems; and the number of residents, and the number of smokers in the home.
(20) All drugs demonstrated release from the tissue conditioner matrix and inhibition of growth of C. albicans that was either total, dose-related, or related to incubation time prior to inoculation.
Contingency
Definition:
(n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
(n.) The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
(n.) An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
(n.) An adjunct or accessory.
(n.) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.
(2) The effects of learning history were evident on sessions 4 and 5 when the same consequence was contingent upon the performance of all groups.
(3) However, during massed testing, all subjects trained with response contingent CS termination showed an overall extinction influence, which was most pronounced in the medial subgroup, although the laterals showed frequency control as well.
(4) Aggressive responding was maintained by contingent presentation of periods free of point subtractions, i.e., provocations.
(5) The aim in postoperative pain therapy is a time-contingent dosing after careful intravenous titration of the compound in the lower dose range during continuous supervision.
(6) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
(7) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
(8) The bill is due to become law in the summer and is already forcing the party to make contingency plans including the possible sale of property.
(9) The level of disruption to services will vary widely and depend on the number of staff joining the strike, the mitigating impact of the NHS’s contingency planning and how many patients need acute care, such as A&E care or surgery.
(10) For each subject, reinforcers (money) were contingent upon responses on each of two panels: (1) a matching panel for working matching-to-sample problems, and (2) a sample panel for producing the sample stimulus.
(11) These interventions are effective, however, only as long as the contingencies are in effect.
(12) In contrast, rudiments of internal organs provided their own contingent of endothelial precursors, a process termed vasculogenesis.
(13) In this experiment, reward and punishment contingencies were directly manipulated to produce approach and withdrawal emotional states.
(14) Development of an aorta and pulmonary trunk with tricuspid semilunar valves appears to be contingent on the appearance of separate entwined ventricular ejection streams.
(15) In the present study, subjects with traumatic brain injury (TBI) were given four behavioural measures of executive function, two measures of posterior nonexecutive function, and a Contingent Negative Variation (CNV) task, a proposed electrophysiological index of frontal-lobe functioning.
(16) Using contingency table analysis, we found the following were significantly related to clinical hydrocephalus: increasing age; preexisting hypertension; admission blood pressure measurements; postoperative hypertension; admission CT findings of intraventricular hemorrhage, a diffuse collection of subarachnoid blood, and a thick focal collection of subarachnoid blood; posterior circulation site of aneurysm; focal ischemic deficits; use of antifibrinolytic drugs preoperatively; hyponatremia; admission level of consciousness; and a low score on the Glasgow outcome scale.
(17) Rats were trained to perform shuttle responses to a buzzer in four different situations: pseudoconditioning or D test (buzzers and footshocks presented at random), classical conditioning or DP test (buzzers and footshocks paired on every trial), avoidance without stimulus pairing or DC test (buzzer-shock intervals varied at random, shocks contingent upon non-emission of a shuttle response to the preceding buzzer), and standard two-way avoidance or DPC test (buzzers paired to shocks, but the latter omitted every time there was shuttling to the buzzer).
(18) The results support the assumption of the distraction arousal model used as an interpretation of these effects on contingent negative variation and suggest that high CO absorbing smokers possibly depend more on neuropharmacological effects of smoking than smokers with a low amount of CO absorption.
(19) Single-case methodology was used to evaluate the effectiveness of contingent reinforcement in promoting head posture in an adult brain-injured male.
(20) Experiment II indicated that a severely retarded male would also work at a high work rate under a self-determined reinforcement contingency.