(1) KEMB and progress in general performance within the rehabilitation programme--especially in the more severely disabled patients--are found to correlate much closer then is the case for the various performance tests administered routinely for outcome prediction.
(2) Vocational therapists' ratings and KEMB findings permit the conclusion that the less severely disabled patients tend to hold unrealistically high objectives.
(3) The KEMB (Konstanzer Erfolgs-Misserfolgs-Batterie--Constancy success-failure battery) was administered in addition.
(4) For this latter group, the KEMB achievement motivation findings show hardly any relation with the achievement motivation ratings given, but, rather, with specific performance tests used in organic brain damage and with duration of the condition.
Kerb
Definition:
(n.) See Curb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Suddenly, several lanes of cars and buses are zipping past, but Calvo pays no heed – we are on a smooth, green-tarmacked bike lane, separated from motor traffic by both a raised kerb and a waist-high fence.
(2) Then, in March, London's Kerb street food markets approached us and it's been full-on since.
(3) ‘The theory is that if walkers and drivers occupy the same space they’ll behave more responsibly.’ Photograph: Olivia Woodhouse Its big idea, which originated with Moylan, was to create a "shared space" whereby pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles all occupy the same surface, without kerbs or barriers to separate them.
(4) She believes a suitable new one would cost more than £30,000 and have neither all the functions of her original chair nor meet her mobility requirements, which include travelling on London Underground, going up five-inch kerbs and the ability to go up and down stairs.
(5) Other Off The Kerb clients include Jo Brand, Rich Hall, Phill Jupitus and Sean Lock.
(6) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian It is not illegal to sell sex in Britain, but activities associated with prostitution – such as operating a brothel, soliciting and kerb-crawling – are outlawed.
(7) I stepped off the kerb and walked towards the passenger side of his car and as I did I saw a shotgun lying across the seat pointing towards me.
(8) He said: “I heard a wheel definitely hit a kerb, quite a loud crunch noise, I looked up and saw a car clearly hitting people as it came towards me.
(9) Their quality can surely be gauged by being the only people in the country who had not heard that Savile dated mortuary corpses, kerb-crawled in a camper van and was an enthusiastic nick-sniffer.
(10) The lack of kerbs is good for people in wheelchairs, but can be disconcerting for blind people, as a result of which Guide Dogs took the borough to court, which must have been an uncomfortable experience for the politicians.
(11) Segregation – separating bikes by a physical barrier like a raised kerb or fence – is something of a holy grail for campaigners, who argue it makes cycling accessible to people of all ages, allowing them to trundle along at slow speeds in everyday clothes.
(12) It happens all the time so I’m used to it - Wolverhampton (Male) An HGV pulled out from a side street and turned right, cutting me up and forcing me to stop at the kerb … [Felt] like he did it on purpose as I was ‘only a cyclist’ so it didn’t matter if he cut me up.
(13) Four women in the Bournemouth area contacted officers with allegations of rape, sexual assault and kerb-crawling that have been linked to Worboys.
(14) He said: “I heard a wheel definitely hit a kerb, quite a loud crunch noise.
(15) Paid-for consensual sex is currently legal in Northern Ireland though activities such as kerb crawling, brothel keeping and pimping are against the law.
(16) How to slow down traffic: ditch kerbs, keep potholes, plant trees Read more Tracy Jessop, Norfolk’s assistant director for highways, said the council had been removing some central white lines for more than a decade in places where there was local support.
(17) Selling sex is not illegal in the UK, but certain associated activities - soliciting, kerb crawling and running a brothel are.
(18) I don’t want this, I have the abilities to work, why are they taking my job away?” Former detective superintendent Alan Caton, who led Ipswich’s response to the murders of five women who worked as prostitutes in 2006, emphasised a different approach, that police had successfully operated a “zero tolerance” approach to sex work after the murders – cracking down on kerb crawlers, while not prosecuting women.
(19) Ross is his highest profile client, but Cresswell promotes a roster of talent with his company Off the Kerb that includes Lee Evans, Jack Dee and Mark Lamarr.
(20) Several protesters smashed kerb stones to throw at police, while others threw stones and shouted abuse at a wall of advancing officers.