What's the difference between recency and recent?

Recency


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither duration nor recency of OC use had a protective effect against peptic ulcer.
  • (2) The results of all three studies support the position that reminding provides a direct basis for later judgments of the relative recency of events.
  • (3) On the temporal recency task, the alcoholics were impaired when they were asked unexpectedly to judge how recently these stimuli had been presented.
  • (4) P3 target stimulus amplitude was reduced significantly for the subjects who had not eaten relative to those who had eaten, whereas peak P3 latency was only moderately affected by the recency of food consumption over task conditions.
  • (5) When the interval between List 2 and the test was shortened, recency effects were found for part-word cues for both cued recall and production instructions.
  • (6) The auditory advantage for recall of recency items has been explained in terms of (1) the contributions of precategorical acoustic storage (PAS), (2) an advantage of changing-state over static stimuli, and (3) an advantage of primary-linguistic coding.
  • (7) Like human judgments of recency, accuracy varied inversely with the lag and directly with the temporal separation of the objects in the probe.
  • (8) The results showed that the rehearsal training had an overall facilitatory effect on recall and that this effect was more pronounced for signs than for words, especially in the recency portion of the serial position curve.
  • (9) A similar trend emerged in recency of Pap smear, with 14% of older controls and 52% of the younger group reporting a cervical smear within 3 years before the interview.
  • (10) Results indicated that speech redundancy can be circumvented cognitively, nasality was more salient (different) than voicing, and a recency effect was found.
  • (11) The effect of manipulating these variables was such that sometimes no recency effect was obtained, implying that their state is sometimes critical for the effect.
  • (12) Previous results showing recency with ASL stimuli in normal subjects were not replicated.
  • (13) The validity of DIS-CM (Chinese modified version of Diagnostic Interview Schedule) was examined by analyzing lifetime prevalence of each age group, age at onset, and recency of illness.
  • (14) 2) There was a normal suffix effect or attenuation of the recency effect when the digits were followed by an another irrelevant speech suffix, the "8".
  • (15) The main finding is that schizophrenic subjects show reduced primacy and middle position performance, but are able to match the recency recall of controls.
  • (16) As expected, semantic tasks generally led to greater final recall than nonsemantic tasks, with semantic tasks even producing positive recency on the delayed test.
  • (17) We have performed a retrospective study of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting for postinfarction angina in an effort to determine the influence of recency of myocardial infarction and unstable angina on operative mortality.
  • (18) The paper concludes with a discussion of a possible interpretation of the recency effect as a emergent property of all types of memory system, including verbal short-term memory.
  • (19) CHI patients demonstrated both a recency and primacy effect along with improvement over repeated trials (positive slope learning curve).
  • (20) Compared with AD patients, PD patients were disproportionately impaired in recency discrimination relative to content recognition.

Recent


Definition:

  • (a.) Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (2) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
  • (3) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (4) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
  • (5) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (6) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (7) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (8) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (9) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
  • (10) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (11) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (12) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (13) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
  • (14) We recently demonstrated that functional change in SSI was possible simply by replacing the amino acid residue at the reactive P1 site (methionine 73) of SSI.
  • (15) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (16) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (17) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
  • (18) Furthermore, recent investigations into the pharmacokinetics of lithium salts are dealt with.
  • (19) The review provides an update of drug-induced pulmonary disorders, focusing on newer agents whose effects on the lung have been studied recently.
  • (20) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.

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