(n.) A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
(n.) A copy of a book or writing.
(a.) Exemplary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Encephalitis lethargica is presented as an exemplaric neuropsychiatric illness.
(2) Two individuals with severe mental retardation, employed by a janitorial supply company, were taught to use self-instruction in combination with multiple exemplar training to solve work-related problems.
(3) Implications for the contact hypothesis, category-exemplar relations, and belief stability are discussed.
(4) For their exemplar role, physicians and teachers are on the front line of antismoking action: convincing them to stop smoking is, thus, an obvious priority.
(5) Generalization and maintenance of trained sentence types to novel exemplars and novel stimulus conditions served as dependent measures.
(6) Results of the study suggest that the CCNs surveyed were not fulfilling their roles as health exemplars.
(7) The results of Experiments 1 and 2 provide clear support for this prediction in contradistinction to predictions from probability matching, exemplar retrieval, or simple prototype learning models.
(8) Multiple exemplars may be necessary for other criteria.
(9) The production frequency of exemplars for 16 categories was obtained from institutionalized mentally retarded adults and compared with those of nonretarded children, adolescents, and adults and with typicality ratings given by the same retarded subjects previously.
(10) It is argued that natural selection was for Darwin a paradigmatic case of a natural law of change -- an exemplar of what Ghiselin (1969) has called selective retention laws.
(11) The items included normal adult foods and exemplars of different adult rejection categories: disgust (e.g.
(12) Specific MHF exemplars, the problem-solutions, were constructed from extant scientific literature; two models of health guiding MHF research were generated from these exemplars.
(13) In addition to membership in the same category, preoperational subjects required that both exemplars be typical before categorizing them together on the Sample-Match Task.
(14) Pathfinder was New Labour at its worst, an exemplar of its authoritarianism, its arrogant assumption that the core vote can be screwed over indefinitely, and its blind faith in the market.
(15) Differential-approach tendencies of individual incubator-hatched chickens and Japanese quail were assayed using one exemplar of each of the species maternal calls in a simultaneous-choice paradigm.
(16) The findings are interpreted within the framework of a general array model that yields both exemplar-similarity and feature-frequency models as special cases and provides quantitative accounts of the course of learning in each of the categorization tasks studied.
(17) Infants 7 to 8.5 months of age were tested for their discrimination of timbre or sound quality differences in the context of variable exemplars.
(18) Until there is genuine political leadership on this issue the system will remain failing.” The prime minister courted what he called the “visionary” Kids Company during his mission to detoxify the Tory party while in opposition, and cited it in his infamous “hug a hoodie” speech in 2006 as an exemplar of the type of public service he wanted to see – one which concentrated on “emotional quality” rather than hitting bureaucratic targets.
(19) The effectiveness of the category-specific retrieval cue was a function of its physical similarity to the individual exemplars encountered during training, not testing.
(20) If we did this, many of our current policies simply could not continue – mandatory detention, turnbacks without proper screening, offshore processing without rigorous oversight and durable solutions in place.” McAdam said, historically, Australia had had one of the best refugee status determination systems in the world, and could be an exemplar again.
Forefinger
Definition:
(n.) The finger next to the thumb; the index.
Example Sentences:
(1) For this purpose, the fastest possible self-paced single isometric forefinger extensions and the fastest alternating forefinger movements were tested.
(2) In 34 subjects (29 subjects vibrations exposed and 5 controls), the variations of seric levels of endothelin (Et) after Cold Test were investigated, while vasomotor modifications were monitored and recorded by forefinger volumetric pulsoplethismography.
(3) Subjects maintained a steady force level between their thumb and forefinger for 30 s. The force level varied from weak (0.2 kg) to strong contractions (7 kg).
(4) At different moments, I notice him throw his arms wide, as if someone had scored a goal and use both forefingers to add double emphasis to his points.
(5) Blindfolded subjects clasped the opposite surfaces of an object with the same frontal profile as the visual figure between thumb and forefinger and moved the latter together from end to end across the object.
(6) The most affected finger is the ring-finger, the least affected one is the forefinger.
(7) During the investigation of somatosensory evoked cortical potentials arising from a complex vibro-tactile stimulus to the forefingers, an abnormal lack of lateralisation of response was found in 10 out of 21 schizophrenic patients.
(8) The temporal and spatial structures organization varied in the different tasks: (1) Simultaneous agonistic performance (forefinger flexion on both sides), (2) simultaneous antagonistic performance (e.g.
(9) The points of attachment are thumb, forefinger, and middle finger.
(10) Monkeys were trained to exert a maintained isometric pinch with the thumb and forefinger.
(11) A disk (coin) turned end over end between thumb and forefinger feels longer to the turning hand.
(12) As a result of this combination of movements, the forefinger pad was placed directly onto the object.
(13) The second study showed that manual biases induced by visual roll motion are not overcome using a thumb-and-forefinger (pyramidal) motor strategy, and may not be equivalent to the "giant hand" illusion that is believed to reflect the predominance of the vestibulospinal (extrapyramidal) motor pathways during extreme spatial disorientation.
(14) Among 350 inhabitants of two villages, 31 (8.9%) cleaned their teeth using table salt and charcoal applied to their forefinger or a Melastoma brush.
(15) The stoppage of movement observed in young individuals in the MP articulation of the forefinger occurs under the effect of trauma, - under normal articular conditions, - on strongly flexed finger, under the effect of powerful ulnar duction.
(16) Prints were taken every 2.5 min from the left middle and forefinger, and skin conductance level (SCL), number of spontaneous fluctuations (SF) and heart rate (HR) were recorded for the corresponding intervals.
(17) In eight healthy individuals, the skin fold between the thumb and the forefinger was treated with 0.05% clobetasol propionate ointment under a hydrocolloid occlusive dressing.
(18) The second had arthritis of the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint of the right forefinger after shutting his finger in the door of his car.
(19) A 41-year-old man, who had lived in Kawasaki city, was seen in April 1988 because of sores on the dorsum of left forefinger which had been present for one month.
(20) Compared to (1) and (2), conditions (3) and (4) included a temporal delay between the performance of the two forefingers; compared to (1) and (3), conditions (2) and (4) required the subjects to perform movements of opposite directions with their two forefingers.