(1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(3) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(4) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(5) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(6) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(8) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(9) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(10) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
(11) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(12) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(14) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(16) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(17) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(18) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(19) To distinguish the various types, we designated the 90 kd types from CBA and AKR mice C6A1 and C6A2, respectively, and the corresponding 100 kd types C6B1 and C6B2, respectively.
(20) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
Ephemera
Definition:
(n.) A fever of one day's continuance only.
(n.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
(pl. ) of Ephemeron
Example Sentences:
(1) Steven Hughes says that Talking Man is Steve Wilson: "And I wish he'd stop Lawrenson using 'sad', as a pejorative term, when 'Lawro' talks about all the ephemera that surrounds football - like statistics and such.
(2) The susceptibility levels of other indicator species such as Agrion, Hydropsyche, Brachycentrus, Ephemera, etc.
(3) The phone-hacking trial has thrown up many nibblettes of celebrity ephemera, but perhaps the most extraordinary latest reveal is that Her Majesty is a stickler for her snacks .
(4) The website is now a wormhole, a place in which it is possible to lose yourself in the beautiful but useless ephemera of a single existence.
(5) Standing in front of the first of two "glamscapes" of memorabilia and pop-culture ephemera, I am confronted by things I had hoped never to be reminded of again.
(6) A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects , a new book by lifelong supporter John Dewhirst, appears not much more promising than a compulsive collection of memorabilia – but it is much more than the sum of its badges, pennants and other ephemera which the author admits his wife and three daughters would eagerly de-clutter tomorrow.
(7) NAD dependent malate dehydrogenases of three trematode species, Notocotylus attenuatus, N. ephemera and N. imbricatus, have been investigated by electrophoresis.
(8) In this locality, specifically not determined Rhabdochona larvae were recorded from the mayfly nymphs Ephemera danica (0.4%), Ecdyonurus aurantiacus (7%), and Caenis macrura (10%).
(9) Only the first of those applies to the ruthlessly forward-looking Akira, which hits the ground running as it assembles its science-fiction apocalypse from memories of the second world war, immortalising sensory ephemera in the beats of its glorious animation.
(10) This is the biggest rescue operation since the credit crunch began – but it probably won't be the last" A lot from the Lehman Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera" sale at Christie's of London in September 2010, on the second anniversary of the investment bank's bankruptcy.
(11) Co-owner Ana Luandina publishes the Concrete Observer for her guests, a pamphlet of useful and unusual Porto ephemera.
(12) An explosion of newspapers, pamphlets, books, serials, advertising and ephemera was the result.
(13) Her work juxtaposes historical ephemera with a comprehensive portrait of mid-20th century black life.
(14) In accordance with the notice on the tree - 'fans are requested to pay their respects by leaving only small tokens or flowers' - the stone is surrounded by all manner of tiny ephemera.
(15) This life history pattern seems to be mainly due to the availability of infected ephemeropteran intermediate hosts during all seasons, in this case the nymphs of Ephemera danica, a species noted for its two-year development.
(16) So those of us engaged in this strange spectator-sport are driven to reading stock-market analysts' reports and other ephemera, which is the technological equivalent of consulting the entrails of recently beheaded chickens.
(17) Throughout the 1960s, London Magazine (Ross dropped the definite article in 1966) was an exemplary success, alert to a time of artistic fluidity yet never losing sight of its civilised principles; indeed, its editorial quirks - strange pieces on sporting subjects or exotic places, and an apparently inexhaustible supply of minor writers' interlocking memoirs among them - helpfully kept the magazine anchored beyond the fluffy ephemera of the decade.
(18) 'For the past 20 years I had been compiling information about the whereabouts of manuscripts, photographs, cartoons and lots of Wilde's ephemera.
(19) First, that more and more ephemera seems to be kept online – accidentally or otherwise.
(20) It’s a prosaic and familiar set of rooms, still furnished with the classroom ephemera – an overhead projector, a pot plant, some wall hangings – that only serve to emphasise the extraordinary and inexplicable nature of what happened here.