(1) These findings disconfirm the hypothesis that unaware learning and drug-induced amnesic learning are analogous.
(2) Results from the present experiment did not support Shapiro's 1981 findings that systematic desensitization was more credible than Rational-Emotive Therapy, which disconfirms the expectancy-arousal hypothesis, but the basis for this remains unclear.
(3) Although the results supported one a priori hypothesis, they disconfirmed two others and yielded an unpredicted but theoretically interesting abductor covariate.
(4) Employing a family interaction paradigm, the psychodynamic development of personality (Consensus Spouse-Rorschach, CSR), mutuality in interpersonal perception (Interpersonal Perception Method), and feedback mechanisms in communication (the Confirmation-Disconfirmation Coding System) were investigated.
(5) Thus, our results disconfirm the generally held deficit model.
(6) Excessively powerful assumptions of innateness may not be subject to empirical disconfirmation, however.
(7) Finally, the overall results disconfirmed hypothesis 3, i.e., assisted escape failed to differentiate groups any better than unassisted escape regardless of whether circlers were or were not included in the analyses.
(8) Their communication was analyzed by a newly developed revised edition of the Confirmation and Disconfirmation Coding System, CONDIS-R. Studies of intrarater agreement and split-half estimates supported the reliability of CONDIS-R.
(9) A more powerful experiment was carried out and these additional predictions were disconfirmed, although the polarity-specific effect did emerge.
(10) The demonstration that graphosyllabic factors affect spelling performance disconfirms the hypothesis that graphemic representations consist simply of linearly ordered sets of graphemes.
(11) These findings were disconfirmed in two experiments in which the VVIQ was used and vivid pictures were presented in the memory tasks.
(12) Although cognitive therapy avoids giving reassurance by "ruling out" feared diseases, patients are encouraged to take actions to disconfirm their worst fears.
(13) The utility of the sufficiency principle for understanding motivation for elaborative processing and the relevance of the findings to understanding the processing and judgmental effects of expectancy disconfirmation are discussed.
(14) Communication was analysed in terms of continuous feedback processes, using the new computerized method, Confirmation-Disconfirmation Coding System (CONDIS).
(15) Disparity limits for fusion were unaffected by variations of as much as a log unit in contrast, luminance gradient or phase of the frequency components, disconfirming the luminance gradient hypothesis.
(16) The results suggest that the old schema is ultimately reinstated if disconfirmations are few and far between.
(17) Efficacy expectations and differential attributions for failure were suggested as possible explanations for the results, however further research will be necessary to confirm or disconfirm these hypotheses.
(18) The hypothesis that enmeshment is a composite pattern of high Proximity and weak Hierarchy was disconfirmed.
(19) In Experiment 3, large reductions in target contrast, which have the effect of decreasing disparity sensitivity, did not alter fusion limits, disconfirming the idea that fusion limits estimated with discriminative procedures represent disparity-detection thresholds.
(20) Also alpha 1 power was larger immediately after disconfirming feedback than after confirming feedback.
Tend
Definition:
(v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
(v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
(v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
(v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To await; to expect.
(a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
(a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(4) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(5) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(6) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(7) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(8) Fibrinolysis tended to be depressed in resting ANO patients.
(9) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
(10) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
(11) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(12) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
(13) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
(14) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(15) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
(16) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(17) The more the OKT8+ and B1+ lymphocytes infiltrated, the longer the survival (rate obtained) whereas, the infiltration of some kinds of plasma cells tended to have a negative correlation with the prognosis of the case.
(18) This fact is due to the characteristic of IgE which tends to fix itself to basophil membrane.
(19) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(20) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.