(a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results, BM-Eo are naive and seem to be a good indicator for eosinophilotaxis and its modulation.
(2) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
(3) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(4) One group of rats was made immunocompetent towards P. aeruginosa by intraperitoneal injection of phenol-killed P. aeruginosa while a second group remained naive to this organism.
(5) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
(6) It is at present unclear whether this discrepancy is due to the preferential clonal selection of a pre-existing subpopulation of naive B cells that express variable regions altered via nucleotide replacement, or whether the process of nucleotide replacement occurs only during the antigen-dependent stages of B cell differentiation.
(7) In naive cows, strain 433.31 induced less exudation of plasma into the milk, shedding of bacteria, macroscopic alteration, and a lower somatic cell count (SCC) than did the reference strain.
(8) Those transmitted orally to naive hamsters developed in the normal way.
(9) We also found that the frequency of self-reactive but not alloreactive IL-2-producing T cells in the spleens of infected mice was 3- to 10-fold higher than that in naive mice.
(10) IgE helper activity by naive T cells was inhibited by IL-2.
(11) Primed Ts populations that were alloantigen restimulated for 8 hr adsorbed TsDF in a cell dose-dependent fashion and produced TsF in response to that adsorption, whereas alloantigen-stimulated naive cells or primed but nonrestimulated cells neither responded to nor bound TsDF.
(12) PKC was partially purified from the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from naive, pseudoconditioned, and conditioned rabbits 24 hr after the rabbits were well conditioned.
(13) Basal serum amino acids (including central monoamine precursors), central monoamines, and hormones were studied in schizophrenic patients (drug-naive; n = 20; drug-withdrawn for 3 or more days, n = 67; neuroleptic-treated, n = 23) and healthy subjects (n = 90) to answer the following questions: (1) Do neuroleptic-withdrawn and neuroleptic-naive patients differ on these serum measures?
(14) In contrast, rat erythrocyte-primed spleen cells suppressed both a primary 2,4,6 trinitrophenyl (TNP) response and anti-erythrocyte autoantibody production (but not anti-rat erythrocyte antibodies) upon transfer to naive recipients and challenge with TNP-rat erythrocytes.
(15) Animals still immune 6 weeks after immunization were found to have mucin profiles which did not differ significantly from those of freshly immunized animals, whereas animals susceptible to re-infection 12 weeks after immunization had mucin profiles more closely resembling those seen in naive controls.
(16) The cerebellar membrane GABA receptor complex was also studied with binding experiments using naive AT and ANT rats.
(17) These observations also suggest that the Leu8- and DR+ T cells with increased adhesion molecules might preferentially migrate into inflammatory tissues, and that naive T cells are being further converted to to memory T cells by in vivo stimulation within the tissues.
(18) Asked whether she could promise customers that such an attack would never happen again, Harding said: “No, that would be naive.
(19) Mean arterial blood pressure in dives was unchanged from pre-dive levels in both naive and trained dabbling ducks.
(20) In naive Cartesianism this assertion starts out from the assumption that illness may develop solely from physical causes.
Unrealistic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of its demands are wildly unrealistic, such as the reintroduction of direct rule and the suspension of devolution.
(2) However, this volume of blood is an unrealistic amount to take from the frequently febrile pediatric patient.
(3) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
(4) Or is this new low just as unrealistic as the original high?
(5) The simplest models make a variety of unrealistic assumptions and an outline is presented of how the assumptions of fingerprint band population frequency equality and mutation rate constancy can be relaxed to produce a more realistic and powerful model.
(6) Labour said it would not respond to the threat posed by Ukip by supporting unrealistic targets for net migration or proposing radical changes to the free movement of workers which would probably be rejected by the rest of the EU.
(7) Tony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals.
(8) Furthermore, a careful selection of the facts to be documented must be established, because a "complete clinical documentation" is unrealistic.
(9) It’s not complicated and it’s not an unrealistic wish list.
(10) Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.
(11) But he concluded: "You've been evasive, repetitive and unrealistic."
(12) It is a totally unrealistic, pessimistic vision about what this country can achieve."
(13) Our main finding is that most addicts have a strong interest in training and employment services, but their expectations about the impact of such services is often unrealistic.
(14) But the scale needed, the expense and the potential unintended consequences are so great that it is widely considered unrealistic.
(15) Because this is often unrealistic, the only other way to keep these patients free of disease is by total dental extraction.
(16) This implies also the tendency that the average food intake estimated through FFQs can yield unrealistically high values for items consumed frequently.
(17) Unrealistic aim The executive does not dispute that the magazine division holds appeal for mass-market publishers such as IPC, Bauer and National Magazines, however, all of which could save significant sums through back office synergies.
(18) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded a European monitoring mission in Ukraine, but conceded it would be “quite unrealistic” for the Russians to allow such a mission into Crimea .
(19) Urinary incontinence is a common occurrence in long term care and, given the client population, continence is often an unrealistic expectation.
(20) The latter calculation was lower than the ESD in three of the five instances examined, which seems unrealistic.