(n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body.
(v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications.
(v. t.) To attack sideways.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the on-frequency SAM tone had a modulation depth of 63%, some listeners performed optimally when the flanking SAM tones also exhibited a modulation depth of 63%, whereas others performed best when the flankers had modulation depths of 100%.
(2) The problem is that rugby is a winter sport, played in stodgy conditions up north that don’t really allow for the development of faster, lighter genuine open-side flankers who can match the likes of Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Francois Louw and Michael Hooper.
(3) There was a 50-Hz masker band centered on the 1250-Hz tonal signal, and four 50-Hz flanker bands centered at 850, 1050, 1450, and 1650 Hz.
(4) The results showed that: (1) the asymmetry was not related to the familiarity of the symbol targets or to the prime-target interval; (2) when the classification involved familiar and unfamiliar symbols, the asymmetry remained (i.e., there was less interference associated with the unfamiliar symbol targets), but there was now significant response competition associated with both symbol categories; and (3) with a mixed-category task (i.e., letters and symbols assigned to both responses), the symbol targets continued to be less interfered with by both letter and symbol incompatible flankers.
(5) Specifically, the effect might be produced because the paradigm requires subjects to (1) attend exclusively to stimuli within a very small visual angle, (2) maintain a long-term attentional focus on a constant display location, (3) focus attention on an empty display location, (4) exclude onset-transient flankers from semantic processing, or (5) ignore some of the few stimuli in an impoverished visual field.
(6) Coupled with previous research, these findings converge in establishing that both failures to maintain attention on the target location and the semantic congruity of target and flankers modulate the size of the effects from irrelevant stimuli.
(7) However, when the target location was precued, no effect of the semantic congruity of target and flankers was found.
(8) McCaw, who has won 148 caps, was taken off one minute from the end to a standing ovation from a crowd who thought they would not see him in action again, but the 34-year-old flanker said he may be back for more.
(9) He loved George Smith, the Australian flanker, and believed that, like his hero, he could compensate for a lack of height.
(10) For 80 ('valid') trials, flankers and targets were consistent in the response cued (pressing a button with either left or right hand); on 8 ('invalid') trials they conflicted.
(11) These results indicate, that the flankers activated their associated response channel while display evaluation was still going on, and that response facilitation and competition occurred.
(12) Automatic semantic activation was assessed in a version of the flanker task, in which nominally irrelevant words were presented above and below a target word.
(13) Invited to play a more roving role while Chris Masoe, Juan Smith, Ali Williams and Bakkies Botha took care of the ruck-shop, the exiled flanker still topped the tackle count and thundered around like a man with a number of timely points to prove.
(14) In this study, we evaluated whether uncertainty about target location and category overlap between the target and the flankers played a role in recent findings (Miller, 1987) of semantic interference of irrelevant stimuli.
(15) Toulon-based Giteau, the reigning European player of the year, and his Heineken Cup-winning team-mate Mitchell and champion flanker Smith, currently also in France, are the biggest winners from the shift in policy.
(16) In contrast, large CMRs required long fringes on both the masker and flanker bands.
(17) Response competition occurred when targets were flanked by context stimuli associated with the opposite response, but this effect diminished when the target was delayed relative to the flankers.
(18) Two experiments demonstrated distinct effects of response compatibility and semantic congruity between flankers and target.
(19) In fact, visual angle is the only one of the task features that clearly has a strong influence on the size of the flanker compatibility effect.
(20) By fringing the masker and flanker bands separately and in combination, it was revealed that the temporal declines of masking were primarily attributable to the fringing of the flanker bands.
Fortification
Definition:
(n.) The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
(n.) That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(2) It is concluded that vitamin-D deficiency in Asian immigrants could be substantially reduced by fortification of chupatty flour with vitamin D.
(3) Accuracy, measured by comparison with fortification values, averaged 95% and ranged from 79 to 103%.
(4) In Terezín itself, I saw for myself the buildings, roads and fortifications shown in the artists' works.
(5) We conducted a randomized double-blind trial of a cow's milk infant formula with increased iron fortification in order to confirm its safety and to measure its effects on iron status and immune function.
(6) Accordingly, such fortification should be used in selected situations only, rather than as a routine nursery policy.
(7) Adequate exposure to summer sunlight is the essential means to ample supply, but oral intake augmented by both fortification and supplementation is necessary to maintain baseline stores.
(8) Results for commercial preparations obtained by the proposed procedure demonstrate excellent precision and accuracy with RSD values for replicate analysis ranging from 0.11 to 0.74% and recoveries via fortification from 99.6 to 100.1%.
(9) Fortification of wheat flour by 0.3% lysine resulted in better growth of rats when fed at 6% protein level.
(10) For each fortification level, the means of recovery yield were in the range 56-107%, and were independent of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon congener specificity and the operator's capability.
(11) Fortification of commercial blood meal with isoleucine did not improve much its quality.
(12) Fortification levels ranged from 0.02 to 1.2 ppm for alpha-BHC, lindane, cis- and trans-chlordane, octachlor epoxide, o,p'- and p,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDE, p,p'-TDE, hexachlorobenzene, heptachlor epoxide, dieldrin, endrin, methoxychlor, mirex, and toxaphene.
(13) In the trust’s book, Syria: Media Citadels between East and West , Julia Gonnella describes how the sixth-century fortification failed to become a place of long-term refuge and settlement because of a lack of clean water.
(14) To combat vitamin deficiencies in populations whose dietary staple is maize, the fortification of maize meal with riboflavin and nicotinamide has been recommended.
(15) Following ugly scenes on the Serbian-Hungarian border on Wednesday when Hungarian security forces used tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets on desperate people pressed up against Budapest’s new razor-wire border fortifications, the focus shifted on Thursday to Croatia.
(16) The study included fortification of tissue by each laboratory and analysis of fat samples taken from treated heifers which had endogenous levels of 0, 10, and 20 ppb melengestrol acetate.
(17) These infants received Fe mainly from fortification Fe with beikost (75-86%) and less than 10% met the recommended intake of 1 mg.kg-1.d-1; whereas 80-85% of the infants fed the Fe-fortified formula did.
(18) There was no evidence that vitamin fortification of the modified medium had any significant effect on the growth rate of test organism.
(19) Samples consisted of 3 Great Lakes channel catfish homogenates containing different levels of bioincurred 2,3,7,8-TCDD; 1 of these was prepared in duplicate and another was prepared both with and without standard 2,3,7,8-TCDD fortification for a total of 5 samples per set.
(20) A targeted, double-blind controlled iron fortification trial using Fe(111)-EDTA in masala (curry powder) was directed towards an Fe-deficient Indian population for 2 y.