(1) The standard error of prediction for each equation is slightly less than that for predicting WAIS IQ from the NART.
(2) Inclusion of NART estimated IQs in the analyses resulted in significantly greater discrimination than was achieved by WAIS IQs alone.
(3) However, within the sample with schizophrenia, NART estimated pre-morbid IQ was significantly higher than currently measured intellectual abilities.
(4) This tape was then 'scored' for accuracy of pronunciation by 10 experienced clinical psychologists who use the NART in their routine clinical practice.
(5) The Vocabulary performance of the depressed group was significantly poorer than controls but there was no significant difference in NART performance.
(6) The danger in using the NART for this purpose is that it yields an invalid estimate if a client's performance on the test has suffered impairment.
(7) Although the NART has been shown to hold in dementia, depression and head injury, reports to date have inferred premorbid IQs with no actual data on premorbid functioning.
(8) Fifteen normal elderly control subjects were administered the WAIS and the NART.
(9) For most subjects in the community the NART was found acceptable as a measure of premorbid intelligence.
(10) The National Adult Reading Test (NART: Nelson, 1982) has become the standard means of estimating premorbid intelligence.
(11) This study undertook a double cross-validation of the NART on a neurologically normal sample (N = 104) and on a clinically relevant sample (49 aged subjects).
(12) NART was found to be strongly related to current level of cognitive function as measured by the Mini Mental State Examination and CAMCOG-the neuropsychological battery of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders in the Elderly.
(13) Total NART scores predicted in this way were highly significantly correlated with the actual NART score for all groups.
(14) In addition to the NART, a battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to 18 AD and 20 elderly control subjects at yearly intervals over 3 years.
(15) When demographic variability between the groups was controlled for, there were no group differences in terms of NART performance.
(16) The validity of the NART in estimating premorbid ability in Alcoholic Korsakoff Syndrome (AKS) is examined in the present study.
(17) There was no significant difference in NART performance between control subjects and the alcoholic dementia, DAT, MID, and CHI groups.
(18) Associations between the NART and other cognitive measures yielded few significant results.
(19) NART scores were significantly correlated with dementia severity in AD subjects at final testing only, suggesting that the NART is sensitive to dementia severity only at the later stages of the disease.
(20) A highly significant correlation between the NART and VF was obtained indicating that premorbid ability should be taken into account when interpreting VF performance.
Tart
Definition:
(v. t.) Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.
(v. t.) Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.
(n.) A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
Example Sentences:
(1) TARS-1 and TART-1 but not TARL-2 were transplantable into newborn syngeneic rats and nude mice.
(2) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(3) Now it is time to add the sweet heart to your jam tart.
(4) This is a Bakewell tart, but with coconut frangipane and lemon curd instead of the usual sponge and raspberry jam.
(5) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
(6) As the temperature of the tarts increases a race will start between the sag of melting fat and the drying of the structure-forming gluten network.
(7) Try the tartelette de chocolate e avelã (hazelnut and chocolate tart, £2), or the classic Portuguese pastel de nata (custard tart, same price).
(8) The recipe below is for 10 classic shortcrust pastry tarts but it can easily be modified.
(9) It turned out to be the worst, as it did for Troyano, whose tarts were also overdone and left Hollywood momentarily lost for words.
(10) From The Great British Bake Off: How to Bake (BBC Books, RRP £20) Mary Berry's tarte au citron Mary Berry's tarte au citron.
(11) Some outlets are supplied with supermarket castoffs, non-essential items such as bakewell tarts that haven’t sold, unusual flavours of yoghurt (lemon and coconut) that no one wants to buy.
(12) Take the train to Lisbon for custard tarts, rickety trams and the fantastic Oceanarium ( oceanario.pt ).
(13) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(14) And they felt that baking said much about Britain and its regional quiddities, from Dundee cakes to bara brith to Bakewell tarts.
(15) Sip a pot of its Galway Cream Tea (€6.95) from antique bone china cups while also munching on melt-in-the-mouth feta cheese tart or gluten-free sweet treats such as beetroot and chocolate cake.
(16) You can throw tarts at the Queen of Hearts, help the Caterpillar smoke his hookah pipe, make Alice grow as big as a house and then shrink again.
(17) To create our shortcrust jam tarts, cut pastry circles that are a couple of centimetres bigger than the holes in the baking tray.
(18) He said the paper had a proper investigative role and had “many undiluted positives” despite its reputation as a “tarts and vicars” paper.
(19) "You little tart shells," says Paul to Ruby as if he didn't know how that would sound in the edit.
(20) Three HTLV-I infected rat cell lines (TARS-1, TART-1, TARL-2) did not express the HT462 antigen, although cells of these lines expressed other HTLV-I related antigens.