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Falsification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
  • (n.) Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
  • (n.) The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
  • (2) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
  • (3) But as with the December vote, independent election monitors and opposition activists presented evidence of widespread falsifications, including ballot stuffing and "carousel voting" – packing vans with voters and bussing them to several polling sites to cast numerous votes.
  • (4) Once incongruent persistence is suspected, the possibility of parental falsification of symptoms must be faced.
  • (5) Jean-Claude Ghislain, director of evaluation of medical devices at AFSSAPS, has said: "There was a falsification of documentation, which obviously made audits very difficult."
  • (6) As increased isopropanol and acetone levels are discussed as alcoholism markers, a falsification of congener analysis after skin disinfection, e.g.
  • (7) If you approve as a member of a supervisory board financial accounts which you know that 2 million are not accrued you have possibly done a falsification of a document.
  • (8) Over a dozen opposition leaders, including former presidential candidates, have been prosecuted for protesting against falsification of the election results.
  • (9) The French foreign minister at the time of the 1994 massacres, Alain Juppé, said Kagame's comments were a "falsification of history".
  • (10) This paper delineates three major types of communicative bipersonal fields: Type A, the symbolic field of illusion and play; Type B, the field of action in discharge and projective identification; and Type C, the static field characterized by impenetrable barriers, falsifications, destruction of meaning, and a rupture of the link between patient and therapist or analyst.
  • (11) Potential false negatives or falsification of positives are discussed.
  • (12) Using active anterior and posterior rhinomanometry there are possible several falsifications.
  • (13) There was also a scandal in 1999 over the falsification of quality assurance data but the worst incident at Sellafield, then-called Windscale, came in 1957 when a fire broke out which resulted in significant quantities of radioactive material being released into the environment.
  • (14) In case of suspected falsification of the Kentjur powder by other Zingiberaceae rhizome powders or their starches it is difficult to differentiate.
  • (15) Cancer patients considered most at risk from alleged falsification of appointment and treatment times by the hospital managing their care were only told of the crisis in letters sent by courier on Monday – the day before a devastating report from the national standards regulator was published.
  • (16) A re-activation of treated farm or laboratory animals which is set up too early might produce reduction of efficiency or falsification of experimental results.
  • (17) Russians continued to register cases of falsification through the night and into Monday.
  • (18) Gorbachev added that authorities "must admit that there have been numerous falsifications and ballot stuffing".
  • (19) Although such kinetic models are likely to be oversimplifications of the behavior of a large macromolecule, these models may provide some insight into the mechanisms that control the gating of the channel, and are subject to falsification by new data.
  • (20) The raw material is the major limitation: because of the variability of drugs and because of economic factors which include the risk of falsifications.

Falsify


Definition:

  • (a.) To make false; to represent falsely.
  • (a.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
  • (a.) To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
  • (a.) To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
  • (a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
  • (a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
  • (a.) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
  • (a.) To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
  • (v. i.) To tell lies; to violate the truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
  • (2) "To falsify returns once is once too many – to falsify 252 times represents a pattern of behaviour which should lead to a full review," Dorrell said.
  • (3) Then there were attempts to falsify votes," she said.
  • (4) Unusual features included the illness chosen, the father as the parent falsifying illness, his failure to pursue unnecessary investigations and treatment, and the ease with which he relinquished the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
  • (5) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
  • (6) Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed were accused of aiding Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, and of falsifying news reports in order to undermine Egyptian national security.
  • (7) These models generate falsifiable predictions about the pattern of risk in relatives of affected individuals.
  • (8) Wood was brought before the employment tribunal after a third volunteer told PHE, the body that designed the screening process, that Wood had falsified Cafferkey’s temperature on the form she had to fill out on arrival at Heathrow.
  • (9) Last week, immigration minister Jason Kenney announced that 3,100 people would have their Canadian citizenship revoked for hiring immigration consultants to falsify their documents.
  • (10) We conclude that global retests should be preferred to selective ones so that the perimetric results are not falsified.
  • (11) In the runup to the election, analysts predicted that falsifying votes cast from home (citizens can request electoral workers to make home visits) would be the most likely method of cheating, but the percentage of such votes was reportedly small.
  • (12) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
  • (13) Educators in health-related fields are particularly sensitive to academic misconduct because undergraduate students who falsify academic work in such fields can go on to endanger the health and well being of the very people they are meant to assist.
  • (14) But news that two of the passengers on the flight were travelling on passports stolen in Thailand – one belonging to Italian Luigi Maraldi, who lost it last August when he left it as collateral for a motorbike rented in Phuket, and the other to Austrian Christian Kozel, who reported his lost in the same area some 18 months earlier – has focused attention on the country's booming trade in stolen and falsified passports.
  • (15) Two experiments on whispered and mouthed lists, with or without simultaneous broadband noise, falsified expectations derived from the theory of precategorical acoustic storage.
  • (16) They say this falsifies that Australopithecus sediba is the ancestor of Homo.
  • (17) Doctors were allegedly recorded admitting they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the illegal abortions.
  • (18) Preoperative application of a bromocriptine therapy may falsify the results too.
  • (19) Illicit-drug users may attempt to falsify results by in vitro adulteration of specimens.
  • (20) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.

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