(v. t.) To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon.
(v. t.) To set a high value on; to prize; to regard with reverence, respect, or friendship.
(v. i.) To form an estimate; to have regard to the value; to consider.
(v. t.) Estimation; opinion of merit or value; hence, valuation; reckoning; price.
(v. t.) High estimation or value; great regard; favorable opinion, founded on supposed worth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
(2) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(3) An employee's career advancement, professional development, monetary remuneration and self-esteem often may depend upon the final outcome of the process.
(4) The example of psychosocial stress (coping with the diagnosis, self esteem, life crises etc.)
(5) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
(6) Although there continue to be methodologic problems in outcome evaluation research of multidisciplinary treatment of sexual dysfunction, follow-up studies generally indicate improvements in sexual functioning, satisfaction, and self-esteem.
(7) The study investigated relationships among demographics, self esteem, health locus of control, health promotion behaviors, perceived health and functional health ratings in 179 older men and women from 65 to 99 years.
(8) The overall model of significant predictor variables accounted for 66% of the variance in general self-esteem.
(9) At the 2nd stage, as the self-esteem lowered and negative attitude of other schoolchildren arose, the neurotic disorders emerged alongside with prevalent depressive reactions and fear of getting bad marks and being an object of ridicule at school.
(10) 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.
(11) A longitudinal design was employed to test the main and stress-moderating effects of young adolescents' perceived family environment (Family Environment Scales; FES; Moos & Moos, 1981) on their depression, anxiety, and self-esteem.
(12) There may also be modest positive effects of such new awards in the form of heightened popular esteem for science and interest in it.
(13) This encouraging finding is inconsistent with earlier findings of low self-esteem.
(14) The higher their sense of coherence, self-esteem, mental health and life satisfaction, the more subjects expected to accomplish their projects, the more frequently they described task-related projects, the less negative affect they reported, and the less frequently they described self-related projects.
(15) A total of 77 families with an adolescent member completed the Family Ritual Questionnaire, and the adolescents completed a measure of self-esteem.
(16) In a sign of the low esteem the celebrity wing of Hacked Off is held in cabinet circles the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, referred to Hugh Grant as "the leader of the opposition Lord Grant of Rodeo Drive".
(17) Some members of highly esteemed European medical institutes, particularly Professor Smith of Germany in 1191 stated that the most important moment of the creation of the human being was the actual assembly of chromosomes at nidation.
(18) As well, self-esteem scores for quadriplegic subjects were significantly higher than scores for the paraplegic subjects.
(19) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(20) Results revealed that higher burnout scores were significantly correlated with a number of standard and special MMPI scales measuring low self-esteem, feelings of inadequacy, dysphoria and obsessive worry, passivity, social anxiety, and withdrawal from others.
Odor
Definition:
(n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
(2) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(3) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(4) Foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) were trained with 2 successively presented targets differing in color or odor, one of which always contained a 5-microliters drop of 50% sucrose solution and the other, a 5-microliters drop of 20% sucrose solution.
(5) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
(6) For the roof, different odorants produced different activity patterns, which had profiles not simply described as regions of maximal and minimal responsiveness.
(7) Hamsters with TNx retained their ability to detect odors, but demonstrated reduced attraction to vaginal odors as compared with unoperated animals.
(8) Chemosensory cilia of olfactory receptor neurons contain an adenylate cyclase which is stimulated by high concentrations of odorants.
(9) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
(10) The cyclic adenosine nucleotide pathway is turned off by kinase A activity, whereas the inositol trisphosphate cascade is terminated by kinase C. The data support the concept that desensitization of odorant responses involves phosphorylation of key elements in the transduction cascade.
(11) Like its counterparts from frog and rat, the ciliary enzyme was stimulated by guanine nucleotides, by forskolin, and by a variety of odorants in the presence of GTP.
(12) The level of the DA metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) increases only in pups receiving both odor and tactile stimulation and peaks at about 200% of baseline.
(13) In Experiment 1, an odor was presented 90 s before, during, or 90 s after a taste to independent groups.
(14) Examination of illustrative case reports demonstrates that the qualitative features of the Odorant Confusion Matrix offer additional insights to support etiologic diagnoses of disturbances in sense of smell.
(15) At 2.5 L min-1 both groups were able to track the buildup of odor intensity during infusion and its decline after infusion.
(16) Experiments 2 and 3 investigated whether desensitized animals could behaviorally detect and discriminate odors.
(17) No differences have been observed about aspect, odor, pH and volume of ejaculate.
(18) Determining specific ligand-receptor relationships is an extremely challenging task given the diversity of odorants able to be perceived and the potentially large size of the family of receptors.
(19) This review discusses the state of knowledge in odor memory within the framework of mainstream memory research.
(20) When heart rate is used as the index of conditioning, rat pups younger than 15 days of age do not display an odor-shock association.