(1) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(2) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
(3) These results suggest that DA and NA, when injected into the MSN, heighten the functional level of the hippocampus.
(4) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
(5) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
(6) This increased cell flow down the early stages of the red cell pathway in CML suggests that heightened proliferation and differentiation of primitive hemopoietic cells may be a more general phenomenon than previously suspected in this disease.
(7) Measures of effect of the training found the following: a significant increase in knowledge scores, although the trainees came into the program with relatively high scores; a heightened awareness and increased positive attitudes toward aging; high ratings of performance on a functionally oriented comprehensive health assessment; and augmented geriatric curriculum and clinical training in their home PA programs.
(8) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
(9) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
(10) A huge security operation is under way across the country, with 90,000 police, army and security staff responding to the heightened threat level.
(11) Serial measurements of fibroblast proliferation-stimulating-activity in samples of BAL fluid obtained from serial examinations in two patients exhibited heightened pretreatment activity that returned to the normal range following corticosteroid therapy.
(12) The presence of cardiovascular hyperreactivity together with the absence of noncardiovascular hyperreactivity in HT indicates heightened SNS-activity specific to the cardiovascular system and not part of generalized SNS-arousal.
(13) There may also be modest positive effects of such new awards in the form of heightened popular esteem for science and interest in it.
(14) The aggression-heightening effects of alcohol were seen during the high-rate interactions in the initial phase of the confrontation and particularly during the lower level of fighting later on.
(15) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(16) We conclude that if the role of physicians is to aid and protect patients against disease or experimentation on humans, then he or she must maintain heightened political awareness in order to deal with social crises before they overwhelm any response.
(17) The heightened autoimmune reactivity being detectable during the preclinical period, lasting months to years, has been proved by antibodies directed against cytoplasmic islet cell antigens (ICA), beta cell surface antigens (ICSA), insulin (IAA), and with a lower frequency against non-islet cell antigens.
(18) The rising survival rate is due to heightened awareness of this injury, which should be suspected in all patients who have sustained high-energy trauma.
(19) With a major new attack on American soil falling in the last week which the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism , however, the president will speak on Sunday night in a climate of heightened fear and in the face of growing pressure to demonstrate results.
(20) The finding may imply a non-endocrine hormonal process leading to heightened local TNF responses.
Nirvana
Definition:
(n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
Example Sentences:
(1) His first, in fact, since just after the release of 1991's Loveless, along with Nirvana's Nevermind the most influential album of the 1990s.
(2) Still, with the many different stairways charting looping courses around the buffeted white peaks of the galleries, this rooftop landscape will be a kids’ nirvana for hide and seek.
(3) So Big Machine signings such as the Cadillac Three – marketed as the "Nashville Nirvana" – made good on promises to tour early and often.
(4) Her native cycling habitat may be the relative bike nirvana of Copenhagen but Anne Hedensted Steffensen , Denmark's ambassador to the UK, claims to nonetheless enjoy braving the roads of her current home city.
(5) Nor would membership of the EEA achieve the migrant-free nirvana that some advocates of withdrawal fantasise about.
(6) We are not in a state of nirvana on women’s rights at any stretch of the imagination.
(7) The X-Files is to Anderson as an unasked-for hit single is to a painfully cool rock band – think Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.
(8) It’s also worth remembering Nirvana’s spectral cover of The Man Who Sold the World , immortalised on their Unplugged Live in New York performance recorded five months before Kurt Cobain’s death, which indicated exactly how much alternative American music owed to Bowie.
(9) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
(10) The Beatles, who won Best New Artist at the show in 1965, are the 2014 winners of the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award on the night, while McCartney has also been nominated for Best Music Film for concert movie Live Kisses and Best Rock Song with Cut Me Some Slack , his collaboration with the surviving members of Nirvana.
(11) We are treating it as if it’s cultural – we don’t want to offend people – and that is wrong.” Pointing out that numbers of teenage girls disappear every summer from British schools, Sanghera said that Karma Nirvana had recently written to every school in West Yorkshire inviting them to a free educational event, but that only two schools turned up.
(12) I'm not going to pretend that there's some nirvana of two separate worlds, relating to each other on the basis of total transparency and ethical perfection.
(13) Coupled with my vast repertoire of recently acquired medical knowledge, this seemed like professional nirvana.
(14) This is the nirvana that Cameron believes will cause re-shoring because our energy prices will be so low.
(15) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
(16) Download this app and on your lunchbreak, instead of doing what you usually do – curling up in the staff room next to the radiator in the hope of a short nap – make a few clicks and you might reach nirvana.
(17) People on the right tend to pin all Labour's problems on Miliband, and mock him as a toxic mixture of caution, confusion and woolly-minded north London socialism; on the left, there are regular calls for him to slough off the New Labour inheritance, be "bold", and lead us all into some new social-democratic nirvana.
(18) Behind this was a hazy notion of rolling back time to an Ottoman nirvana of what might have been if Ataturk and the Young Turks – neither much troubled with democracy – had not existed.
(19) But for a small global community of hackers and entrepreneurs, this is a technological nirvana – a vibrant, multi-coloured landscape of possibility, opportunity and creative exploration.
(20) Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) Ok so I have unreleased wu, Beatles, 2pac, nirvana, radiohead, Hendrix, brand new, smiths, Elliot smith, Ramones... What do you want first?