(n.) A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(3) The Psychiatric Diagnostic Interview, a DSM-III-compatible, criterion-referenced, structured interview, was administered to 565 patients admitted to the Alcoholism and Drug Treatment Units.
(4) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(5) Thirty adult male Wister rats were pretrained to criterion on the moving belt test, and then made tolerant to ethanol by daily administration of increasing doses over a period of 3 weeks.
(6) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
(7) A 90% appropriate response criterion was reached for all measures.
(8) Six of 13 mutations investigated were judged to be missense by this criterion.
(9) The optimization criterion is defined as the net calorie gain a consumer accrues per day.
(10) Old age per se was not found to be a relevant exclusion criterion.
(11) The criterion of efficacy was the ability of the vaccines to reduce the extent of pneumonic lesions in vaccinated as against unvaccinated control lambs.
(12) All four predictor variables were found to be related, and it was shown that ratings of figure bizarreness alone adequately predicted the criterion.
(13) The response criterion (80% suppression of PVCs of control for 8 hours) was met after the 300-mg dose in three patients.
(14) The results show that in the majority of victims the response to rape within the first two weeks displays the symptoms of PTSD, although the criterion of duration is not fulfilled.
(15) Convergent validity between the two non-verbal memory tests, discriminant validity against tests of verbal memory, and criterion-related validity in relation to the influence of different treatment modalities, indicate the tests as valid instruments for measuring non-verbal memory.
(16) To test this hypothesis, we applied a widely accepted criterion of denervation-ie, and increase in extrajunctional acetyicholine (ACh) receptor sites--to muscles biopsy specimens from nine patients with myotonic dystrophy and three with amyotrophic lateral scierosis (ALS).
(17) Unfortunately, few reflections concern the definition of this criterion, which often is little discussed in the other divisions of the pure and applied chemistry.
(18) The apparent tolerance of noncompensatory mutations in some stems which are otherwise strongly supported by comparative criteria within D. melanogaster 28S rRNA must be borne in mind when compensatory mutations are used as a criterion in secondary-structure modeling.
(19) Our study confirms that lupus anticoagulant may be present in a significant number of patients with normal routine activated partial thromboplastin time, a test which therefore cannot be used as the sole criterion for identifying patients suspected of having lupus anticoagulant.
(20) In the radial maze task, both VE(-) and VE(+) animals required as many trials to reach the learning criterion as control animals.
Touchstone
Definition:
(n.) Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
(n.) Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried.
Example Sentences:
(1) Says one senior Labour figure: “Talking about immigration has become a touchstone of whether you are listening to voters.” As for Mr Cameron, the man who used to express himself wary of “going there” has been sucked into a populist bidding war with the Farageistes.
(2) Not surprisingly, the Thugs caught the imagination of the British at home (which is how the word "thug" entered the English language), and became a touchstone for colonial justifications for ruling India.
(3) If an Australian official purported to give a direction to a service provider to reject a request to leave the premises the service provider would be entitled to say, ‘I’m exercising a power pursuant to Nauruan law and that must be my guiding touchstone, not simply the dictates of Australia.’” French asked whether the commonwealth, in the implementation of the arrangements, could be taken to provide “material support necessary for the establishment and maintenance of a detention regime”.
(4) This case is quickly becoming a touchstone for the American Muslim community’s sense of security and inclusion.
(5) Through his unique voice and vision The Daily Show has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come.” The network gave no reason for the retirement, nor any indication about a successor at the New York studio.
(6) He became a touchstone for conservatives – his name is by far the most-invoked by modern Republican politicians.
(7) It appears that the NLRB's lack of familiarity with the health care industry and particularly with the day-to-day functioning of a hospital led it to search for touchstones such as the status of an RN or the certification of technicians that would enable it to make easy but illogical distinctions.
(8) Noteworthy is that presented by Touchstone et al in which a minimum of effort is required.
(9) It is "one of the great cultural touchstones of our society, and we would definitely be the poorer without it.
(10) A review of the literature on cavernous hemangiomas of the liver, including our own experience with 14 cases, provides data as a touchstone for discussion of the incidence, etiology, symptoms, pathology, diagnosis including ultrasound, radionuclide imaging, computed tomography and angiography, management including resection, hepatic artery ligation, radiation and corticosteroid, and the natural history of these lesions.
(11) Over the last decade, Colombia has been a touchstone of what good design and enlightened politics can do for cities.
(12) He has somehow managed to seem wildly out of step with prevalent trends, even as his classic albums became an unimpeachable touchstone for a variety of new artists.
(13) The touchstone of their success was not the colour of their politics but the character of their advocacy.
(14) Plus tentative steps to flesh out policies beyond the touchstone issues of Europe and immigration.
(15) A touchstone issue for the industry is likely to be the BBC and its future.
(16) Eye-catching headlines on populist touchstones need to live up to their billing: on all these three Cameron falters once voters are confronted with realities and complexities.
(17) Though Egypt's post-Morsi constitution outlaws faith-based parties, and a Morsi-era clause about religious legislation was cut, religion has otherwise been a frequent touchstone for the various wings of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi's administration.
(18) As stylistic touchstones, Flaubert's strict English contemporaries – Dickens, say, or George Eliot – were not self-conscious enough about language, for all their genius.
(19) To illustrate this, the so-called 'total locked-in syndrome', in which preserved consciousness is combined with a total loss of motor abilities due to a lower ventral brain stem lesion, is presented as a touchstone for behaviorism.
(20) Along with a host of other cult and alternative influences percolating into the mainstream, its presence was widely felt by the late 1990s, from the west's embrace of Pokémon fever, to tabloid moral panics, to the obvious visual transfusion received by The Matrix – which became the key touchstone for the next decade of Hollywood actioners.