(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.
Paragon
Definition:
(n.) A companion; a match; an equal.
(n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition.
(n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence.
(n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
(v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
(v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival.
(v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass.
(v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison.
Example Sentences:
(1) We compare a "second-generation" immunoenzymometric assay (Tandem-E CKMB II) for creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) MB with its electrophoretic (Beckman Paragon system) determination.
(2) Paragon's chief executive, Nigel Terrington, said the £200m facility from Macquarie would now be used to grant new loans and then as the facility was used up, the mortgages would be packaged up and sold off in the securitisation market that dried up in the credit crunch.
(3) He said he thought government had to do more to make it easier for people to go green in their daily lives, and admitted that he was not a paragon of virtue in his personal life, even if he was trying to use his car less.
(4) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
(5) The return of Paragon was welcomed by mortgage broker Ray Boulger of John Charcol who said there was pent up demand for such lending from professional landlords, particularly since Lloyds Banking Group pulled back from the market this month.
(6) Paragon said provisions for loans at risk of non-payment more than halved to £3.5m from £7.5m a year earlier as new cases of loan arrears fell and customers made payments that were overdue.
(7) In contrast, Duncan has been praised as the paragon of selfless basketball, sacrificing his numbers for the good of the team.
(8) The overall CV was less than 20% for all methods and isoenzymes, except for LD-4 and LD-5 by the Beckman Paragon, Helena LD-VIS, Gel LDH, Gel PC, and Iso Dot, Gelman LDH Isozyme, and Sebia Hydragel assays, for which it was greater than 20%.
(9) An application of the method was demonstrated by measuring contact angles for saline-containing 0 to 2% bovine serum albumin or bovine submaxillary mucin on Silafocon-A (Polycon II), Pasifocon C (Paragon EW), and polymethyl methacrylate (generic PMMA and Paragon 18) lenses.
(10) "Told with exquisite ill-temper," was the verdict of John Osborne, not exactly a paragon of good grace himself, on How's That For Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?
(11) Paragon, one of the biggest lenders to landlords in the UK, said its “pipeline” of buy-to-let loans has more than doubled in recent months .
(12) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
(13) Paragon increased lending to private landlords by almost two-thirds in the first half of the specialist mortgage lender’s financial year as the buy-to-let boom continued.
(14) The Beckman Paragon alkaline gel electrophoresis system was evaluated for utility in identification and quantitation of glycosylated hemoglobin in the clinical laboratory setting.
(15) We could imagine this paragon of whiteness, soft-spoken and soft around the middle, as a rational actor, spending months after the shooting to carefully prepare for his grand-jury testimony, to repeat his performance in front of George Stephanopoulos for a television interview.
(16) The source of what has been called a “swell” of “circumstantial evidence” is the CIA, an agency which has been known to interfere with an election or two itself, and isn’t really a paragon of honesty.
(17) For several decades X-ray diffraction studies have been the paragon of biological structure studies at atomic resolution.
(18) Fluorosilicone-acrylate polymer lenses adsorb and release the most preservative, while polymethylmethacrylate lenses (Paragon Optical Inc, Mesa, Ariz) adsorb and release the least.
(19) Paragon said that the number of borrowers in arrears has continued to fall, and those more than three months behind represented 0.86% of the total order book.
(20) Perhaps as a result, Uber is by no means the only paragon of the sharing economy to face legal pressure.