What's the difference between discriminator and monopolistic?
Discriminator
Definition:
(n.) One who discriminates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
(3) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(4) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(5) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(6) To determine the diagnostic and discriminative value of these subisoenzymes in polymyositis, we analyzed CK and its MM subisoenzyme forms in serum samples from 22 patients with myositis and from 23 controls.
(7) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(8) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(9) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
(10) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
(11) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
(12) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
(13) Therefore, a hormonal regulatory element can discriminate among closely related transcription start sites.
(14) Kup is a separate K+ uptake system with relatively little discrimination in the transport of the cations K+, Rb+, and Cs+.
(15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(16) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(17) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
(18) Results indicated that participants discriminated the target behavior on video but effects did not generalize to the work setting for 2 participants until they rehearsed the behavior.
(19) Discrimination was possible among these four groups on the basis of the Mahalanobis' generalized distance.
(20) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
Monopolistic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a monopolist.
Example Sentences:
(1) But singular concern with the consequences of monopolistic control by the profession is no substitute for analysis of the dynamics among demand, production, and supply of surgery.
(2) This paper reviews the major trends in financing reform, emphasizing their impact on those characteristics of the market for health services that economists have viewed as monopolistic, and discusses the implications of structural change for the allied health professions.
(3) Once more unto the valley of the kings, then, as another Silicon monopolist issues a decree, in this case to the indescribably junior entity that is Norway.
(4) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
(5) He also blamed monopolistic capitalism, arguing that free-market philosophers and advocates of "a moral market place", such as the 18th-century economist Adam Smith, had always warned against anti-competitive banks.
(6) So it's really, in my opinion, the government of the United States protecting an outdated monopolistic business model that doesn't work in the age of the internet and that's what it all boils down to.
(7) "The reality is that Sky owns very few of the channels it broadcasts and many of the stations have minute audiences – especially compared to the state monopolists at the BBC.
(8) Ever since Ed Miliband forced electricity and gas profiteering into political focus by pledging a price freeze , the monopolists have outdone themselves.
(9) He believed in privatising lighthouses, opposed regulating taxis, thought pollution was a price worth paying for profit, wanted to abolish the BBC and didn't think private companies could ever be monopolistic – you might not call him extreme but the label ideological would surely be applicable.
(10) Monopolists and dominant firms, like Microsoft, can actually suppress innovation.
(11) Google’s ownership of video site YouTube already gives it control of the only other major destination for gamers wanting to watch their favourite hobby, and Forbes’ Ryan Mac says that the company was concerned that could lead to it being accused of monopolistic actions.
(12) Britain, they thought, was ready for a centre-left politics that decried the failings of markets and stood up to monopolistic big business, without entirely abandoning commitments to budget discipline and private enterprise.
(13) Using the monopolistic model, a statistical test of the hypothesis of "no induced demand" is constructed, and fails to reject it.
(14) And European officials have already expressed concerns about monopolistic, US-based marketplaces setting the terms of exchange for their own digital firms.
(15) The article concludes with some therapist and group interventions that have a significant effect in lessening a group member's monopolistic behavior.
(16) I think the three most hated words on the internet right now are ‘Please wait, loading ... ’ “Unless internet users unite in defence of net neutrality, we could be seeing those dreaded ‘loading’ wheels a lot more often on some of our favourite websites, while monopolistic companies get to decide which content gets seen by the most people.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Several other large internet companies are expected to back the day of action.
(17) A succession of monopolists would lead, in this view, to higher standards of living in the long run.
(18) The debate about Google and music tends to be dominated by the biggest voices on both sides: people who think Google has an evil, over-arching plan to erode copyright and screw the creative industries, and people who see those industries as copyright monopolists trampling over the free internet in order to protect their (outdated) business models.
(19) "They have done fantastic things for the book industry ... but there's no doubt they are very, very powerful now and in fact they are getting close to being in a monopolistic situation," she said.
(20) I think the three most hated words on the internet right now are ‘Please wait, loading ... ’ Unless internet users unite in defense of net neutrality, we could be seeing those dreaded ‘loading’ wheels a lot more often on some of our favorite websites, while monopolistic companies get to decide which content gets seen by the most people.” Several other large internet companies are expected to back the day of action, which is being coordinated by Silicon Valley lobby group Engine.