(n.) Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
(n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
(v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
(v. i.) To be bewildered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(2) These impairments were seen in animals of both sexes, a finding which challenges the view that only females prenatally treated with nicotine show deficits in maze learning.
(3) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
(4) The Learning behavior on a water maze was observed in Wistar-JCL rats which were 10 weeks of age at the beginning of tests.
(5) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
(6) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(7) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
(8) In the radial maze task, both VE(-) and VE(+) animals required as many trials to reach the learning criterion as control animals.
(9) Spatial working memory was examined in an 8-arm radial water maze task 6 weeks after bulbectomy.
(10) Grafts taken from older (E21) donors did produce a short-lasting improvement in the T-maze alternation performance, replicating the previous report.
(11) Further studies are needed to clarify the reasons of the marked age-related difference in the effects of DSP-4 on the performance of water maze task in rats.
(12) Experimental data are presented on the formation and retention during 24 hours of a motor alimentary conditioned reflex (MCR) in a T-maze, in rats 4--5 months and 1,5--2 months old.
(13) Prior to analysis the spatial learning ability of the aged rats was assessed in the Morris' water maze test.
(14) Bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) in the rat cause deficits in the water maze, a spatial memory paradigm.
(15) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
(16) The animals were tested for learning ability in a Morris water maze task starting 6 or 12 weeks post-COLCH.
(17) Chronic exposure of rats to low levels of halothane during development, a treatment which retards synaptogenesis, was found to cause a long-term impairment of choice accuracy in the radial-arm maze.
(18) A simple T-maze was utilized to evaluate the aversive effects of exposure to three levels of static magnetic field (0, 1.5, and 4 T).
(19) Radial arm maze observations were made on offspring rats during a total of 30 trials, and we made the following findings: 1) The number of trials required for fulfilling learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups relative to the controls; that is, F-DEL and F-NURS were slow in learning.
(20) These data suggest that doses of NMDA receptor channel antagonists sufficient to disrupt hippocampal long-term potentiation and radial arm maze performance will also disrupt delayed conditional discrimination.
Rubicon
Definition:
(n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(2) He said he accepted the principle of independent regulation, arguing that the current system "is badly broken and it has let down victims" – but insisted that any proposal to underpin a new regulator with a law, as proposed by Leveson, would "cross the Rubicon" of state intervention into press freedom.
(3) On 1 August Palmer told Guardian Australia his senators were firmly against any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(4) The prime minister has said a press law would be "crossing the Rubicon" but it is understood that a "dab of statute" which would underpin a royal charter and ban the privy council from amending any charter would be acceptable to Associated, News International and the Telegraph.
(5) Glasenberg, says one person who knows how much he anguished over the decision to take Glencore public, is well aware that he "has crossed the Rubicon".
(6) He believes the prime minister's main reservation, his "Rubicon", has been addressed.
(7) It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Caesar’s crossing of that petty stream, the Rubicon, is a fact of history, whereas the crossing of the Rubicon by millions of other people before or since interests nobody at all.” The speeches we believe to be most decisive can come only from those speeches we have heard about.
(8) He was taken to Govan police station, the base for Operation Rubicon, the inquiry set up to investigate alleged perjury at the trial.
(9) In 1986 he made perhaps his biggest blunder, his infamous "Rubicon" speech.
(10) Tony Yates, a professor of economics at Birmingham University and a former Bank insider, says: “Once they’ve crossed the Rubicon of doing it, what would be to stop the political clamour for using QE to pay for something else?
(11) I have three concerns: First, a change in the law to permit assisted suicide would cross a fundamental legal and ethical Rubicon.
(12) Ehab Badawy claims that Egypt has "crossed the democratic rubicon" in the recent presidential election ( Letters, 3 June ).
(13) iPad Great Little War Game 2 (£1.99) Developer Rubicon Development has won a wide following with its little and big war games.
(14) Palmer said Australia’s health system was much more efficient than the one in the US, and the PUP senators were united in their opposition to any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(15) We will take deep breaths and cross the Rubicon with you, or at least the Firth of Forth.
(16) It may be that [the government has] crossed a Rubicon and decided that [mass] data-gathering exercises are something [it] should try out – but you can't have it under the existing regime."
(17) Diluted soil samples (Rubicon fine sand, Entic Haplorthods [pH 5.9]) were plated on soil extract-glucose agar containing radioactive 65Zn.
(18) We’ve made it into the final and crossed the Rubicon.
(19) He was not, he said, willing to pass that Rubicon .
(20) What caught the headlines was Cameron's call for an in-out referendum on renegotiated terms – apparently a Rubicon.