(1) Luce's choice theory was used to analyze subjects' responses.
(2) In both applications, a GRT model accounted for the identification data better than Luce's (1963) biased-choice model.
(3) In 1954 the BBFC banned the Marlon Brando biker flick The Wild One outright (it was eventually released here in 1968), while the following year Clare Booth Luce, as US ambassador to Italy, intervened to prevent The Blackboard Jungle being shown in competition at Venice.
(4) Luce's choice theory provided the psychophysical basis for investigating the ability of cerebral-palsied children to detect passive movement of the elbow joint.
(5) In 1987 her arts minister, Richard Luce, announced that "the only test of our ability to succeed is whether we can attract enough customers."
(6) The second stage involves both template matching of the transformed test stimulus with each of the stored internal representations of the characters within the set and response selection, which is assumed to conform to the unbiased choice model of Luce (1963).
(7) A difficult discrimination context produced greater complexity effects than an easy discrimination context, consistent with Folk and Luce (1987).
(8) Also, Cardiff City sacked the French midfielder Kevin Sainte-Luce after he was found guilty, but not jailed, for assaulting two women.
(9) Another official noted that the FCO minister Richard Luce suggested "we should try to prevent the press from getting wind of such training".
(10) Luce ends with a cautious endorsement of Barack Obama : [T]his is no time to gamble.
(11) The experiment of category judgments of horizontal line lengths was performed in three conditions of stimulus presentation sequence, in order to examine whether the sequential dependencies of this type might be explained with the attention band theory which Green & Luce (1974) proposed.
(12) To follow the success of Call the Midwife on Sunday evening, Harris has recently optioned Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries.
(13) Using special enzyme purifications, Sumper and Luce presented evidence that self-replicating RNA not present ab initio can grow out of 'template-free' incorporation mixtures.
(14) Dr Luce reviews recent changes in the organization and delivery of critical care and argues that the utilization and quality of critical care units can be improved through a combination of strategies.
(15) Both the Luce choice model and the informed guessing model (a new model having a simple and elegant process interpretation) provided excellent fits to the data.
(16) Carrington, who resigned after the invasion with the two other FCO ministers, Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce, wrote to John Nott, the defence secretary, three times early in 1982 trying to persuade him to reverse the decision to withdraw the survey ship HMS Endurance from the south Atlantic.
(17) Acknowledging that the nature of the intensive care environment makes applying ethical principles difficult, Luce urges physicians to carry out their obligations to serve the interests of their patients.
(18) Three extended versions of the Bradley-Terry-Luce model are discussed and used to assess scale values for the criteria as well as for order effects.
(19) Luce applies five principles of medical ethics -- beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, disclosure, and social justice -- to issues that often arise in critical care medicine.
(20) Her co-author, Dr Stephanie Luce, called the reversal “a promising sign” for New York’s workers, and added “the data show once again that union membership greatly improves workers’ wages.” Another piece of evidence suggesting that the outlook for workers is changing overall: an economic measure called labor’s share of income is spiking upwards.
Luxe
Definition:
(n.) Luxury.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity was localized at the surface membrane of the mouse C-1300 neuroblastoma by incubation of a confluent tissue culture monolayer grown on Lux-Permanox cultureware with 6-chloropurine ribonucleoside (CPR).
(2) Strains with transposon-generated lux::lacZ gene fusions were used to analyze control of the transcription of these regions.
(3) For 1-4 weeks after surgery they were exposed to either 1000 lux for 24 hr or 80 lux for 48 hr.
(4) Flash stimuli with the maximum illuminance, 30,000 lux, were given at increasing levels of illuminance in 0.6 log U steps for 13 levels of intensity.
(5) The lux genes required for expression of luminescence have been cloned from a terrestrial bacterium, Xenorhabdus luminescens, and the nucleotide sequences of the luxA and luxB genes coding for the alpha and beta subunits of luciferase determined.
(6) To assess whether developmental state, as opposed to species, was a factor determining the differences in vulnerability to injury, hearts from immature rats and adult rabbits were perfused with various concentrations of rose bengal (250-2500 nmol.litre-1) with the intensity of illumination (1400-6600 Lux) adjusted to account for the size of the heart.
(7) A simple method based upon the use of a Tn5 derivative, Tn5-Lux, has been devised for the introduction and stable expression of the character of bioluminescence in a variety of gram-negative bacteria.
(8) In humans, the light intensity must probably exceed 2000 lux to be optimal.
(9) Ethylenediamine-di(o-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid) did not affect luciferase induction in E. coli strains with wild-type iron assimilation (ED8654) or impaired iron assimilation (RW193) bearing pJE202 (a plasmid with functional V. fischeri lux genes), suggesting that the genes responsible for the iron effect are missing or substituted in these clones.
(10) Bromohydrins (12, 13, and 14), which were oxidatively damaged products of thymidine nucleotides, were repaired by the action of sunlight (2700 lux) or heat via a radical mechanism to regenerate the original nucleotides (8,9, and 10).
(11) In humans only bright light (2500 lux) appears to be an effective circadian zeitgeber.
(12) In the second part, caries was simulated by grooves of increasing depth in aluminum blocks of a thickness equivalent in radiopacity to enamel and the detectability assessed beneath differing thicknesses of three representative composite resins, P-30, Brilliant Lux and Occlusin.
(13) The rightward operon contains luxI, which together with luxR and the 218 base pairs separating the two operons comprises the primary regulatory circuit, and the five structural genes, luxC, luxD, luxA, luxB and luxE, which are required for the bioluminescence activity.
(14) The genes required for bioluminescence (the lux genes) are organized in two divergently transcribed operons (luxR-luxICDABEG).
(15) The tests were performed between 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., with light (700-1400 lux) and in the dark (1.4-2.8 lux) and behavior was recorded by the time sampling technique.
(16) The protocol consisted of a baseline control night (customary sleep schedule) followed by three shortened nights with a rising at 05.00 and a 2 h exposure to either dim light (50 lux; one week) or bright light (2000 lux; other week).
(17) Up to 12-14 weeks of age, the .11 lux intensity was superior to the other treatments.
(18) Under LD 20:4, the intensity of L was decreased to 1 lux for 1 hr (D pulse).
(19) At low levels of illumination (30 lux), this effect was similar to that seen in anesthetized animals but was diminished under higher ambient lighting conditions.
(20) The transcription of the V. fischeri lux genes also requires a regulatory protein, (luxR), cAMP and CRP.