(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.
Salience
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
(n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) We interpreted these results within an attributional framework that emphasizes the salience of upsetting events within a social network.
(2) Nine factor dimensions were found to meet the dual criteria of statistical salience and clinical meaningfulness.
(3) The task was either of high or low salience (prominence).
(4) The amount of variability found in the labeling of speech contrasts may be dependent on cue salience, which will be determined by the speech pattern complexity of the stimuli and by the vowel environment.
(5) These consistent order effects were not due to the initial salience of the 2 expressions but, instead, appeared to reflect differential rates of habituation to happy vs. fear expressions.
(6) The salience of immigration is reinforced by a separate question in which "curbing immigration" comes top of varied populist policies as the "single action politicians could take to bolster your faith in politics", with 26% picking that priority, as against 19% who prefer tax cuts and 15% who prioritise a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.
(7) Experiment 1 confirmed earlier results in showing that the presence of intra-maze cues failed to overshadow learning about extra-maze cues, in spite of the former's apparently greater salience.
(8) It was argued that the British children tended to sound out the items before making a choice in the lexical decision task, which gave salience to phonological rather than visual information, resulting in increased errors to the pseudohomophones.
(9) It appears that for normal subjects, the salience or associability of the response cues may largely determine the influence of stimuli presented during instrumental conditioning.
(10) Small incision on the boundary between the sensory and the motor cortex of a dog changed the saliency not only of the tactile but also of the auditory conditioned stimuli, eliciting the preoperatively acquired alimentary instrumental response.
(11) This essay reviews data that support these observations, and evaluates three traditional explanations for them--including the perceptual salience of color for children, experience and learning in the child, and cognitive development--against a fourth new possibility.
(12) These results indicate that the presence of both taste and odor cues in target nutrients may contribute importantly to their salience.
(13) Family affective responses, especially negative responses, have proven of particular salience in studies of major psychiatric disorders.
(14) The results showed that the pre-assessed salience of the relevant dimensions affected matrix solution in that more accurate performance was associated with those problems with both relevant dimensions relatively high in salience than those with one high and one low.
(15) The magnitude of the deficit underscores the salience of emotional impairment in schizophrenia, and its relation to cognitive dysfunction in this disorder merits further scrutiny.
(16) Our findings suggest both contextual and cultural influences on the relative salience of the different components of EE, a theme worth pursuing.
(17) Studies 3 and 4 ruled out stimulus salience and a familiar word strategy as interpretations of these findings.
(18) The resultant response distributions, displayed as brightness maps, give a vivid impression of the relative saliency of each feature square, both for the individual targets and for all of them combined.
(19) REM dream content was scored for categories suggesting the predominant influence of the left hemisphere, e.g., good ego functioning, verbalization, or the right hemisphere, e.g., music, spatial salience, bizarreness.
(20) In Study 1, given that liberals value tolerance more than conservatives, it was hypothesized that with mortality salience, dislike of dissimilar others would increase among conservatives but decrease among liberals.