(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.
Marine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
(a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.
(a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
(a.) The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.
(a.) A picture representing some marine subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(2) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
(3) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(4) omega-Conotoxin GVIA is a peptide purified from the venom of the marine snail, Conus geographus, that specifically blocks voltage-sensitive calcium channels in neurons.
(5) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
(6) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(7) After the gunfight the marines made the shocking discovery of bodies of 58 men and 14 women in a room, some piled on top of each other.
(8) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(9) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
(10) The only inconsistency in the mariner gene phylogeny is in the placement of the Zaprionus mariner sequence, which clusters with mariner from Drosophila teissieri and Drosophila yakuba in the melanogaster species subgroup.
(11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(12) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(13) Intramembrane faces were visualized in the marine dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra by the freeze-fracture technique, in order to test a prediction of a membrane model for circadian oscillations--i.e;, that membrane particle distribution and size change with time in the circadian cycle.
(14) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
(15) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(16) Two new isomeric delta-lactones 2 and 3 have been isolated from the marine fungus Helicascus kanaloanus (ATCC 18591).
(17) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(18) Greg Hunt , the environment minister, said he will use the existing Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority act to “put in place this ban in legislative form”.
(19) Modern lungfish are air-breathing nonmarine forms, yet their Devonian forebears were marine fish that did not breathe air.
(20) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.