(1) Moreover, not all investigators have ensured that schizophrenic subjects belong to that group which does show deviant speech structures.
(2) Questionnaire responses from upper-status junior and senior high school students show the importance of perceived parental pressure in understanding adolescent self-esteem and deviant behavior.
(3) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
(4) It was assumed that a deviant stimulus can elicit a MMN only when the neuronal representation of the previous standard stimulus still exists.
(5) Previous experiments with picture sorting and matching tasks have shown aphasics to give more deviant responses than controls when decisions require the identification of single features of concepts, whereas their responses are close to normal whenever decisions have to be based on the relative overlap of broad associative fields.
(6) Therefore, the girls in the present study might be either more psychiatrically disturbed or have more deviant personalities than the boys, which might explain why our hypothesis about a lower thrombocyte MAO activity in the adolescents with externalizing symptoms (group I) was verified only in the girls.
(7) Several of them appeared to be sexually deviant, although they did not meet DSM-III-R criteria for a diagnosis of paraphilia.
(8) This study was conducted to determine whether deviant-speaking children can understand their own speech productions when these productions are presented to them from an external source (tape recorder).
(9) We conclude that immune privilege is extended to histoincompatible developing retinal transplants placed in the AC of the eye, and that these allografts induce a deviant systemic immune response characterized by impaired expression of delayed hypersensitivity and generation of splenic suppressor cells.
(10) The present study examined the vigilance performance of 16 behaviorally deviant and 16 nodeviant children and suggested that the vigilance paradigm might serve as a basis for a standardized test of continuous attention in children.
(11) For deviant kel values of a one-compartment model, the most accurate recovery of ko occurred with the area function method and nonlinear least-squares regression, followed by the Wagner-Nelson and moment analysis methods.
(12) The deviant stimuli elicited in addition to N100m a second deflection, MMNm, peaking at about 200 msec.
(13) However, the stress associated with maternally toxic doses can be expected to result in associated, often transient, fetal abnormalities that may not be the result of deviant organogenesis.
(14) The testosterone level in deviant males was about five times higher than that of normal displaying males.
(15) Ahmadinejad's unwavering support for Mashaei, who is accused of running a "deviant current", has cost him a great deal of influence over Iranian politics and has put him at adds with Khamenei.
(16) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
(17) application of 1-5HTP represents a practicable strategy for investigating biochemical hypotheses as to serotonin mediated normal and deviant human behaviour, especially in affective disorders.
(18) The aggressive teenagers differed from the non-aggressive subjects firstly in their alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, and secondly with respect to other deviant behaviour, such as stealing, running away from home or violent victimization.
(19) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
(20) This work identified an important attitude of Nigerians namely that behaviour is controlled from outside including deviant behaviour.
Expectation
Definition:
(n.) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
(n.) That which is expected or looked for.
(n.) The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.
(n.) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.
(n.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
(2) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(3) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(4) Compound Z has the properties expected of an oxidized MPT precursor.
(5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(6) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(7) Moreover, one may expect satisfactory results in most cases.
(8) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(9) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(10) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(11) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(13) The presence of the expected C19 neutral and C18 phenolic steroids was confirmed.
(14) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(15) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(16) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(17) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
(18) Contrary to expectations, low SES was not associated with greater levels of hyperglycemia or grades of retinopathy.
(19) In these conditions, glucose uptake was sensitive and correlated to the expected membrane potentials.
(20) This fact suggested that TCTFP may be metabolized intensively by glutathione (GSH) conjugation and therefore, like hexachlorobutadiene, would be expected to be nephrotoxic.