(n.) A marine European fish (Crenilabrus melops); also, the related American cunner. See Cunner.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a highly significant correlation between behavioural problems (assessed by Conners Teacher Rating Scale) and diminution of IQ.
(2) All used the Conners Short Parent-Teacher Questionnaire.
(3) Hot topic: collaboration We asked two speakers about the challenges of collaboration: Rick Conner, author of this year’s World Water and Development Report on water and energy: The water and energy sectors speak different languages.
(4) Our results confirm the findings of O'Conner et al, whose study is the only previous one to demonstrate hypophosphatemia-induced myocardial depression in humans.
(5) Conner, who plays Arbor, has a pinched look and the short hair shaved into a "v" at the back that's popular on the estates.
(7) A comparison of mother ratings of behaviour during challenge and placebo double-blind trial and in the 24 hours preceding tests, in a subgroup of the children who, while on the diet, showed a 25% reduction of symptoms on the Conner's rating scale, indicated a significant challenge effect (P less than 0.025), with mothers reporting more symptoms during the challenge period.
(8) On Friday, Joleen Conner, 36, queuing with dozens of others to donate blood at a mobile blood bank, said she had graduated from UCC three years ago and knew people caught up in the rampage.
(9) Analysis showed that 33% of the mentally handicapped students were rated above 1.5 on the Conners Scale, which is the cut-off for hyperactivity.
(10) To accomplish this, two measurement techniques for assessing Type A behavior in children (MYTH and Hunter-Wolf) were compared to a third (a teacher-rated measure of hyperactivity: the Conners), since this latter measure, although often used to diagnose hyperactive children, seemed also to measure some Type A-like behaviors.
(11) Improvement in attention and behavior, which was ascertained by the use of Conners' Abbreviated Teacher Rating Scale, did not always correspond with improvement in handwriting.
(12) Both were shown to have similar time courses on the Abbreviated Conners Rating Scale and other measures, but SR-20 had a slower onset than did the standard drug form on a continuous performance task.
(13) The children with left hemispheric lesions had also significantly more behavioural problems (Conners Scale).
(14) Multiple regression analyses indicated that the IBC was a better predictor of injury than parent-reported levels of child problem behavior using the Conners Parent Rating Scale.
(15) In the melee that followed, with looting and violence spreading across the city, Conners and her boyfriend De’Angelas Lee were caught up in a volatile situation at a gas station in Halls Ferry.
(16) Within the hyperactive group a statistically significant association was found between the number of allergies and teachers' (Conners) scores of hyperactivity.
(17) Normative data are presented for 570 children on newly revised versions of the Conners Parent and Teacher Rating Scales.
(18) The high correlation with ratings on the Conners Scale suggests that AD-HD is a unitary syndrome with attention being most problematic for children labeled hyperactive.
(19) MRS scores were significantly higher in manic versus ADHD children (p less than 0.0001), while scores on hyperactivity rating scales (Conners-Parent and Teacher Forms) did not differ between groups.
(20) Improvement with medication on the Conners Hyperactivity Index was observed in 75% of subjects.
Corner
Definition:
(n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
(n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
(n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
(n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
(n.) Direction; quarter.
(n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
(v. t.) To drive into a corner.
(v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
(v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(3) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
(4) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(5) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(6) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.
(7) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
(8) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
(9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(10) Jordanian officials are aware of possible retaliation from an increasingly cornered Damascus, which this week accused Amman of "playing with fire" by opening its border to a military push.
(11) Miller is wide wide wide wide open in the corner of the endzone.
(12) 8.22pm BST 42 mins Now it's a US corner and a chance to exploit the German zonal marking.
(13) But I say to the honourable gentleman we won’t get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.” Later, Marie called in to radio station LBC radio to say that the new Labour leader needed to “change the way he does things, mix things up each week and really not let the Conservatives know which side it’s coming from – firing on all corners but doing it in a calm and collected way”.
(14) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(15) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
(16) The MRTF was low pass in character having a corner frequency of 100-120 Hz.
(17) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(18) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(19) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
(20) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.