(1) 16, 1419 (1976)] has been thought to imply neural mechanisms with unlimited constancy, but these researchers permitted differential adaptation to the brighter and dimmer targets, which were seen haploscopically (by different eyes).
(2) Ceramics can withstand natural light, unlike painting and other art works that have to be preserved in dimmer rooms.
(3) Within a certain range of ambient illumination b-waves elicited by red (695 nm) test flashes against dimmer background lights were smaller in size than against brighter ones.
(4) Stock traders shrugged off the Fed's dimmer outlook and focused on the prospect of continued stimulus.
(5) Four operations were repetitively applied to this positive pattern so that it moved fractionally to the right, grew dimmer, moved back to the left, and grew brighter again.
(6) Responses to dimmer stimuli are determined entirely by the rods.3.
(7) A steady light which hyperpolarizes the cone membrane by the same amount as high Ca2+ has an equal effect on the amplitude of responses to bright flashes but has an entirely different action on response kinetics and on the amplitude of responses to dimmer flashes.
(8) Animals raised in 800-lx cyclic light have a significant increase in the retinal activities of the three glutathione enzymes over activities measured in animals raised in the two dimmer regimes.
(9) Subjects exposed to 1000 lux ambient light maintained significantly higher levels of alertness across the 8-hour shift than did subjects exposed to the dimmer lighting conditions.
(10) When Macmillan and her colleagues at the Institute of Education compared IQs, they found today's younger cohort of professionals was, on average, slightly dimmer than the previous, poorer generation.
(11) In Experiment 1, which involved a discriminative reaction time (RT) task, chromatic and white stimuli of the same luminance were presented on a dimmer achromatic background.
(12) Also, titration with DTNB indicates that the enzyme is a much more asymmetric dimmer in the pyridoxamine-P conformation than in the pyridoxal-P conformation.
(13) Sending love to her family, friends, and community as we all struggle to make sense of the senseless in a world that is dimmer without her light.” Others praised her activist work and her creativity, saying they could hardly believe Louisiana had lost “ such a bright light ”.
(14) Nearly everywhere in the visual field, the visibility threshold with the Dicon instrument seems equivalent to that obtained with projection perimeters, but in the most sensitive retinal areas we found the threshold stimulus (Is) to be sometimes dimmer than the "background" (Ib), which surrounds the stimulus, making a negative differential threshold (delta L = Is - Ib).
(15) The prospects appear even dimmer in light of the Commonwealth bank ending its advisory role over financing the Carmichael project.
(16) "Sea walls have the potential to save lives wherever they are built, provided the tsunami does not exceed the simulated height and runup pressures," said Dimmer.
(17) They might not work properly with dimmers yet, but they are generally smaller, brighter and softer on the eye than they used to be.
(18) During rivalry, the same steep branch of the RT-luminance function appeared, but shifted as though the probe was about 0.25 log units dimmer.
(19) Steady or noise current injection during sinusoidal light stimulation showed that (a) the decrease in the spike threshold at a dimmer mean illuminance was due to the increase in the noise variance: the noise had facilitatory effects on the spike initiation; and (b) the change in the mean potential level had little effect on the spike threshold.
(20) Lucia’s retreats allow you to take more drastic action to calm the body and mind: a full-scale withdrawal from real life, or as one book I picked up put it: “turn on your dimmer switch.” It worked for me.
Vary
Definition:
(v. t.) To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature of a thing; to vary a posture or an attitude; to vary one's dress or opinions.
(v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.
(v. t.) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
(v. t.) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See Variation, 4.
(v. i.) To alter, or be altered, in any manner; to suffer a partial change; to become different; to be modified; as, colors vary in different lights.
(v. i.) To differ, or be different; to be unlike or diverse; as, the laws of France vary from those of England.
(v. i.) To alter or change in succession; to alternate; as, one mathematical quantity varies inversely as another.
(v. i.) To deviate; to depart; to swerve; -- followed by from; as, to vary from the law, or from reason.
(v. i.) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension; as, men vary in opinion.
(n.) Alteration; change.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Ethanol and L-ethionine induce acute steatosis without necrosis, whereas azaserine, carbon tetrachloride, and D-galactosamine are known to produce steatosis with varying degrees of hepatic necrosis.
(3) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(4) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(5) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(6) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(7) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(8) Change of steps in achieved just by varying the reaction conditions without any product purification.
(9) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(10) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(11) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(12) The pH of ST solutions varied with the mode of oxygenation as follows: 7.9-8.2 in Groups I and IV; 8.7-8.9 in Groups II and V; 7.1-7.4 in Groups III and VI.
(13) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(15) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(16) The frequency of oesophageal cancer varies among the native and immigrant populations in different countries.
(17) In the first experiment ovariectomized female hamsters were administered varying dosages of progesterone (P), dihydrotestosterone (DHT) or CI-628 at the same time (concurrently) as estrogen (EB) or 48 hr after EB (sequentially).
(18) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
(19) Products formed during electrooxidation were monitored as the electrode potential was varied.
(20) A total of 63 patients (95%) showed varying degrees of hyperostosis involving the cribiform plate, planum sphenoidale, or tuberculum sellae (including the chiasmatic sulcus).