(n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.
(n.) Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(2) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(3) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(4) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(5) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(6) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(7) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(8) Effects of OT injection and OT application were independent.
(9) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(10) However, empty shells can also form independently of intact virions.
(11) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
(12) Survival was independent of the type of clinical presentation and protocol employed but was correlated with the stage (P less than 0.0005), symptoms (P less than 0.025), bulky disease (P less than 0.025) and bone marrow involvement (P less than 0.025).
(13) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(14) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(15) In particular, inflammatory reaction was significantly more frequent and severe in ischemic groups than in controls, independent of the degree of coronary stenosis.
(16) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(17) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
(18) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(19) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(20) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
Plagiarism
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of plagiarizing.
(n.) That which plagiarized.
Example Sentences:
(1) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
(2) 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.
(3) Fresh evidence of Independent journalist Johann Hari's habit of alleged plagiarism has emerged from a lengthy interview with Afghan women's rights activist Malalai Joya in July 2009.
(4) This quasi-science, which regards nation-states as living entities and was one of the sources of Nazism, was the subject of a book he published in 1968, and which was attacked by specialists outside Chile for comprehensive plagiarism.
(5) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(6) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
(7) Whelan – who was one of the first bloggers to accuse Hari of plagiarism, and has since found other examples – concludes Hari is "taking other people's interviews and passing them off as his own".
(8) Recent charges of plagiarism have not been limited to Mexico .
(9) The decision, coupled with a ruling by New York district court Judge J Paul Oetken in December against a separate claim of plagiarism by the American writer Eve Pomerance , author of two unfilmed screenplays about the Victorian scandal, means Effie is now able to be released.
(10) A s a writing teacher at Boston University I can usually detect plagiarism.
(11) Simon Kelner, the editor-in-chief of the Independent, described the online plagiarism row over star columnist Johann Hari as "politically motivated" and "fabricated anger" at lunchtime on Wednesday.
(12) Thompson had been accused of plagiarism by the American writer Eve Pomerance, author of two unfilmed screenplays about the Victorian scandal titled The King of the Golden River and The Secret Trials of Effie Gray.
(13) There was also less copying, plagiarism and disruptive behaviour.
(14) Tokyo 2020 Olympics committee rejects plagiarism claims over logo Read more “We should make a structure that will emotionally move people all over the world,” the prime minister said.
(15) Plagiarism feuds Johnny Cash v Gordon Jenkins: Cash was forced to pay composer Gordon Jenkins $75,000 for using lyrics and melody from Jenkins’ 1953 track Crescent City Blues as the basis for his own 1955 song, Folsom Prison Blues Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams v Marvin Gaye: a jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s family $7.4m in 2015 after he ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had copied their father’s music to create their hit Blurred Lines George Harrison v Ronnie Mack: George Harrison was found guilty of “subconscious plagiarism” of Ronnie Mack’s He’s So Fine for his song My Sweet Lord.
(16) Japan’s hapless preparations for the 2020 Olympics have suffered another embarrassment after organisers decided to scrap the Games’ official logo amid accusations of plagiarism against designer Kenjiro Sano.
(17) But, as an educator, there are all sorts of parallels with plagiarism that I’ve dealt with in my own classroom.
(18) No one at this stage had said there were problems of authorship or plagiarism with the thesis.
(19) As recently as last week, however, Japanese officials rejected claims that Sano was guilty of plagiarism , noting that Debie’s design was not a registered trademark.
(20) Cheeky that, because Boris is both super-hack and politician, one whose media ethics got tangled with a spot of plagiarism in his youth and got him dismissed by the Murdoch-owned Times.