(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.
Fallback
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If the initial acceleration of the atrial rate is available from a Holter monitor or a standard electrocardiographic recording, the fallback response can be easily detected as the transition from pacing at the upper rate limit to the fallback rate.
(2) This has led some western officials to saythe group might be preparing to use the Libyan front as a fallback base in case of a defeat in Iraq and Syria.
(3) Only two things can: a more attractive agreement, or a less attractive fallback.
(4) It destroyed its usefulness to Tehran either as a fallback in case its publicly acknowledged enrichment plant in Natanz was bombed or as part of a covert parallel uranium processing cycle aimed at building a bomb – as western governments allege.
(5) A new fallback function may be useful to prevent the initiation of ELTs.
(6) [But] as long as we've got the fallback of mutual aid, we would cope and we would deal with it effectively."
(7) The government is actively considering the policy known as quantative easing as a fallback position.
(8) It is that Israel greatly prefers the fallback option to a peace agreement.
(9) Supraventricular tachyarrhythmic attacks were associated with attainment of the programmed upper rate limit at which time the fallback mode was activated and the pacemaker automatically converted to a ventricular demand (VVI) mode.
(10) Since Oslo, in fact, the US has done quite the reverse, working to maintain the low cost of Israel’s fallback option.
(11) The budget report said the government "aims" to do this without purchasing controversial carbon credits from cuts made in other countries, but said these "offsets" could be a "fallback option".
(12) Osborne's fallback is to argue that the UK's downturn is nothing to do with his austerity measures, but caused by a sudden collapse in growth across Europe and the US.
(13) Forbidding any risk rating is likely to cause adverse selection problems, whereas permitting the fallback insurer to risk rate should help it to perform its proper role and avoid being subject to dumping of high risks.
(14) But many people are over-reliant on IVF – not fate – as their fallback.
(15) The fallback argument that Snowden has alerted terrorists to the fact that Washington is able to read their emails and listen in on their phone conversations – enabling them to change their methods of communication – is hardly worth considering, as groups like al-Qaida have long since figured that out.
(16) The performance of a fallback insurer, present in most market-based health reform proposals, is shown to depend on whether or not it is permitted to risk rate.
(17) In conclusion, intermittent supraventricular tachyarrhythmias which are resistant to drug therapy can be treated with His ablation and dual chamber pacing utilizing special pacemaker features such as the fallback mode.
(18) Benyon said new powers in the water bill to directly regulate flood insurance premiums were a "fallback" plan.
(19) The Palestinians, too, have endeavoured to make Israel’s fallback option less attractive through two uprisings and other periodic bouts of violence.
(20) Meeting this target in the fallback year of 2015-6 also now looks improbable.