(n.) Appearance of truth or reality; probability; verisimilitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(2) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(3) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(4) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(5) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(6) Behavioral variables, including interreinforcement interval and drug self-administration history, appear to be important determinants of whether or not reinforcement will be demonstrated, particularly among the benzodiazepines; but the range of conditions under which behavioral and pharmacological variables interact to promote or lessen the likelihood of self-administration of these drugs remains to be determined experimentally.
(7) Unfortunately for the governor, he could win both states and still face the overwhelming likelihood of failure if he doesn't take Ohio, where the poll found Obama out front 51-43.
(8) The crucial point in all likelihood is the nature of this heme-binding protein.
(9) Using cumulative nursing GPAs, the likelihood of predicting success on NCLEX-RN increased at the end of each academic year.
(10) It was found that labelling the picture with a sentence containing a specific verb substantially increased the likelihood that the specific picture corresponding to that verb would subsequently be falsely recognized.
(11) MIDAZOLAM IS SUPERIOR TO DIAZEPAM IN CERTAIN WAYS: it has a more rapid onset; produces greater anterograde amnesia, less postoperative drowsiness, less venous irritation and less likelihood of thrombophlebitis development.
(12) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
(13) Epidemiologists need to conduct studies to determine if there is an increased likelihood of developing cancer in betel chewing pregnant women and OC users due to increased sensitivity of their lymphocytes to genetic damage compared with nonchewing pregnant women and OC users.
(14) In the spinalized preparation, steady-state and nonsteady-state responses have an equal likelihood of emerging from the initial cycles of a paw-shake response, suggesting that regular coupling of joint oscillations is not planned by pattern-generating networks within lumbosacral segments.
(15) The issue of fees can affect clients' evaluation of the provider as well as the likelihood of using the service being offered.
(16) Scientists have disagreed about the likelihood of a successful clone, but several governments, including the UK, have banned the reproductive cloning of human beings.
(17) His call comes after senior police admitted there was a need for guidance on a consistent approach across the country to the policing of the protests because of the likelihood of further exploration sites being given the go-ahead.
(18) Greater attention to these factors and use of a larger dose of tetracycline (greater than or equal to 1 g) may increase the likelihood of a successful pleural symphysis.
(19) The results suggest that this relationship contributed to changes in health care utilization, including reductions in use of emergency rooms, specialists, and nonphysician providers and some increase in the likelihood of obtaining care from a primary care physician.
(20) Practically speaking, this entails, in each case, finding the form of therapy that is acceptable to the patient and that provides the greatest health benefits with the least likelihood of adverse affects.
Likeliness
Definition:
(n.) Likelihood; probability.
(n.) Suitableness; agreeableness.
Example Sentences:
(1) A young girl in South Sudan is three times likelier to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to finish primary school, said the Unesco report.
(2) The more the Scots push for a referendum on independence, the likelier it is they will continue to lose influence at Westminster.
(3) Mourinho is likelier to face another fine rather than a ban given off-field offences generally prompt off-field sanctions.
(4) Based on these studies the likeliness of a role for quinolinic acid in the etiology of HD is evaluated.
(5) Jermain Defoe would be a valuable addition in attack but QPR seems a likelier destination for the former Tottenham striker, so Leicester are looking at.
(6) This seemed all the likelier minutes later when John McDonnell, the new shadow chancellor , wandered in and took a seat on the other side of Eagle.
(7) Nor does the Prism article specifically refer to the finding that drones are 10 times likelier to kill civilians than manned aircraft are.
(8) The likelier outcome is that a victorious Putin would have many friends in Europe, and that the sanctions on Russia would be allowed to lapse.
(9) With Mata having a poor game and Rooney constantly misplacing or mistiming his passes, United were becoming becalmed in midfield in the late summer sunshine, and Adnan Januzaj seemed a likelier choice to inject more urgency and invention.
(10) In the 'private' sector, 69 percent of the services were delivered by GPs and 23 percent by psychiatrists were more likely to have had 'public' sector activity than were those seen only by GPs; also once in the 'public' sector, they were likelier to have had in patient as well as outpatient treatment.
(11) They fought back from a dreadful start to boss the second half of the first half, equalise early in the second period and look the likelier team to win until Kane completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot and Jeff Schlupp put through his own goal after Kasper Schmeichel had blocked from Christian Eriksen.
(12) Great Barrier Reef bleaching made 175 times likelier by human-caused climate change, say scientists Read more Underlying the finding that reefs will continue to survive is the assumption that agreements made at Paris to keep global warming to “well below 2C” are successful.
(13) For example, a female leader in danger is much likelier to face pressure from her family, or even from male colleagues, to withdraw from activism.
(14) Before the programme, only 6.5% of girls reported being self-employed; afterwards, they were 32% likelier to be working.
(15) My body needs to shut down and heal up.” It seems as if a loan spell at a Premier League club, and a permanent return to England in January, is likelier than another season in Toronto.
(16) Women in Ghana are 70 times more likely to die in childbirth than women in Britain, and children are 13 times likelier to die before the age of five.
(17) The younger the age at first birth, the likelier that the first marriage will dissolve.
(18) New data has revealed unsafe levels of radiation outside the 12-mile exclusion zone, increasing the likeliness that entire towns will remain unfit for habitation.
(19) The likeliness of formation of a hydantoin-related compound in the aniline-adulterated oil is evidenced and its role as possible toxic agent in TOS is proposed.
(20) Attention is paid to the likeliness of isolating aberant strains of S. gallinarum with deviations from the morphology of colonies and their antigenic and biochemical characteristic typical of the species.