(1) Other hosts of the event, which is being held at a secret location understood to be a five-star hotel in central London, include Dwight Poler, the managing director of the European arm of Bain Capital, the private equity house founded by Romney, and Eric Varvel, the chief executive of Credit Suisse's investment banking arm.
Poser
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) She looks panicky for a moment, at the prospect of a particularly tricky financial poser...
(2) Levy, W. Heller, M. Banich, and L. Burton (1983, Brain and Cognition, 2, 404-419) and involved judging which of two chimeric faces appeared happier, in which the two chimeras were mirror images of each other and each chimera consisted of a smiling half-face joined at the midline to a neutral half-face of the same poser.
(3) The clinical diagnosis was based on criteria established by Poser et al.
(4) Using the Poser criteria, 23 patients were diagnosed as having definite MS and one patient as probable MS. Cerebrospinal fluid biochemistry upgraded the categorisation from probable to definite MS in 16 of these 24 patients (66%).
(5) That was the question posed to Jagland following the announcement - the question-poser suggested that Spain and Ireland might be somewhat miffed at the decision too.
(6) The results of the recording of the Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR) in 32 patient with "definite" multiple sclerosis (MS) according to Poser et al.
(7) The natural history and the evolution of the concept of Schilder's diffuse sclerosis have been described by Poser and van Bogaert in 1956 and there is really not much to add to their analysis.
(8) Results from magnetic resonance imaging, evoked potentials and cerebrospinal fluid investigations were used to reclassify 13 of 15 patients with clinically "possible" or "probable" multiple sclerosis to a higher level using Poser's criteria.
(9) After this study we consider the convenience to have both MR and EP positive to give a patient the diagnostic of clinically definite with paraclinic support (category 1.b of Poser).
(10) The patients with new lesions fulfil the criteria for clinically probable MS (Poser et al., 1983).
(11) This study examined both perceiver and poser asymmetries in processing facial emotion.
(12) But if this year's poser for the MPC is to know how much electronic money to push into the economy, next year's may be how to effect an exit strategy.
(13) We then used the results to categorize the patients according to the Poser criteria of multiple sclerosis.
(14) Posers were requested to produce happy and sad emotional expressions, deliberately accentuated on the left and right sides of the face.
(15) In patients with a probable diagnosis (according to Poser) abnormalities were present in 41.6%, when the diagnosis was certain, in 90.3%.
(16) Trans people transition in order to be the gender we feel inside and, while there may come a time when posers will appropriate trendy trans culture for profit, right now, there’s no advantage to transitioning when you’re not trans.
(17) Previous research has suggested that in face-to-face contexts perceivers are biased to judge the side of the poser's face to their left as more similar to the full face than the side to their right.
(18) and the sociological poser of "the benefit of the community."
(19) In an attempt to establish the efficacy of the most recent diagnostic tests--magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and multimodal evoked potentials (EP), 28 patients with clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS) (1.a Poser's categories) were studied.
(20) In this study a population of 50 persons suffering clinically definite MS (Poser's criteria) and 50 healthy controls matched with the patients in sex, age and cultural level were submitted to a neuropsychological test battery (NPTB).