(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.
Unlikelihood
Definition:
(n.) Absence of likelihood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The US state department stressed that Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the one-week deadline and unlikelihood of Assad turning over Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
(2) Despite the a priori unlikelihood of useful information developing from studies in any of these areas, such investigations are being pursued, and the results are proving to be stimulating.
(3) A stronger proposal would have thus acknowledged the unlikelihood of a politically inclusive transition process, and asked how Egypt's economy could be resuscitated in light of this reality.
(4) First, the markets might be going belly-up at the uncertainty about forming a new government and the unlikelihood of a strong one.
(5) The overwhelming unlikelihood of that leads me to conclude that he was murdered.” Galloway said he did not believe that president Assad or the deputy foreign minister were responsible for the murder.
(6) The findings are discussed in the light of cationic activations of glycosyltransferases generally, of the porous nature of the Golgi membrane, and of the unlikelihood of bivalent metal ions being the physiological activators of galactosyltransferase.
(7) The unlikelihood of predominantly HLA-associated control of viral antibody response was discussed.
(8) Positions on both sides have been hardening since the government called off negotiations last week, citing the unlikelihood of a constructive outcome given their sharp differences.
(9) The second major advantage of clozapine is its paucity of acute neurological effects and its apparent unlikelihood to produce tardive dyskinesia.
(10) The unlikelihood of its being produced by autolytic enzymes is discussed.
(11) The approach does not compromise definitive surgery (external or internal hemipelvectomy) in the unlikelihood that the lesion is found to be malignant.
(12) In view of the unlikelihood of regulation that is both sensitive and effective in containing costs, the author proposes that we rely primarily on consumer incentives to reform the system.
(13) Scientific data indicate the unlikelihood of smallpox recurring once it has been eradicated from the human population, although further confirmatory studies are continuing.
(14) Claudius's justifications probably went along the lines of: his seasoned political astuteness versus his nephew's lack of experience; the Norwegian threat requiring a safe pair of hands; the unlikelihood of Gertrude having more children, meaning that Hamlet's inheritance was only being postponed, as he would almost certainly be Claudius's eventual heir.
(15) The unlikelihood of an important proliferative signal triggered by IL2 was confirmed in a semisolid clonogenic assay, which failed to document an increased colony growth in the 26 samples studied.
(16) Despite reports of condom failure with clients, widespread condom use among these women suggests the unlikelihood of significant heterosexual spread of HIV.
(17) This would imply resignation to the unlikelihood of moral development.
(18) The patients' clinical courses and the unlikelihood of coincidence of contracting both diseases suggested to us a causal relationship.
(19) The antihypertensive effect appeared to be restricted to compounds with oxidation rates within a narrow range, indicating the unlikelihood of increasing the duration of the pharmacologic effect by stabilisation of the dihydropyridine system.
(20) Thursday is the next opportunity to have a diplomatic discussion and I think it is safe to lean into the unlikelihood of making announcements before Thursday," said Jen Psaki, the state department's chief spokesperson, when asked about possible new sanctions.