(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.
Prophecy
Definition:
(n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
(n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.
(n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) JGB: I think science fiction always has had a predictive role, and many of its prophecies have come true.
(2) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
(3) Intrusive thoughts – especially anxious ones about erectile capacity – very often become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(4) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(5) Lakota leader Crazy Horse spoke of his vision of that prophecy with the following words: Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world.
(6) To fulfil Wenger’s prophecy about Walcott’s evolution it would make sense for him to get a clutch of games to develop his rhythm.
(7) Tobin wrote: "Despite the dire science-fiction prophecies that accompany every period of high unemployment, revival of aggregate demand has always created jobs in numbers vastly beyond the imagination of the pessimists … Structural labour market policies can make only marginal improvements."
(8) This behavior results in a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
(9) West’s novels have an astonishing record of prophecy.
(10) Her prophecy came true, with her grandson coming to London as a research fellow at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts) in 1974.
(11) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
(12) If one child does not come to school that is too high a price to pay ... and then in educational terms it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
(13) As with all prophecies of doom, or indeed those of an impending economic boom, we should treat such visions with caution.
(14) The message that even if you don’t like Putin, there is no alternative, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the state machine that ensures no opposition forces can ever get too much oxygen.
(15) One called A Prophecy for 1973 imagines a future utopia without poverty and hunger, which seems as distant today as in 1873 when it was probably composed.
(16) But DeMoro insisted he had a meaningful chance of becoming president and dismissed the concerns as a “self-fulfilling prophecy” by Democratic party leaders.
(17) This report deals with the influence of the self-fulfilling prophecy on dental prophylaxis.
(18) In order for an awake intubation to be successful, it is absolutely essential that the patient be properly prepared; otherwise, the anesthesiologist will simply fulfill a self-defeating prophecy.
(19) This prophecy may have seemed far-fetched when first published in 1903, but it was to prove more and more compelling as the century advanced.
(20) Whatever its origins, the Bugarach prophecy has implanted itself in France's collective consciousness.