(n.) A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-six female students in either their first or fourth (i.e, final) semester of the occupational therapy curriculum were assessed with the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale (ATDP) (Yukor, Block, & Younng, 1966).
(2) "We would have taken him home and made him miss a semester to get this looked at," his family told the panel's investigators.
(3) Record reviews completed at the conclusion of each semester from December 1973 to December 1976 showed a statistically significant increase in diaphragm acceptors.
(4) The sample consisted of 340 1st or 2nd semester college freshmen (58.5% males and 41.5% females) entering a required health education course at a midwestern college.
(5) Evaluation of the teaching program on caries and periodontal prophylaxis for students in the first preclinical semester in the dental school shows that after four evaluation steps with a total of 159 pro-bands the final test was answered to more than 80%, that it may be expected that about 65% of the knowledge is memorized after one and a half years, and that teaching a patient how to clean his teeth may be regarded as promising with the students having behaved correctly with regard to more than 70% of the most important criteria.
(6) "I was in the process of getting all my pre-reqs done and then I had to take off a semester.
(7) Moreover, the lower his A-Trait anxiety score at the time of admission, the greater his likelihood of earning a higher first semester GPA.
(8) Subjects were 112 freshman females enrolled in a midwestern university during their first semester.
(9) Beyond the control measures, factors that may interfere in the application of those measures were also studied, the diverse phases of field operations, the work methodology and results obtained in the first semester of 1991.
(10) The results of calorie balance studies were compared with the roper data of FS infants in I trimester and II semester of life, which were described in our previous paper.
(11) Students in these programs are required to take three to six semester hours of computer literacy classes.
(12) Ss were college freshman who were not enrolled in a foreign language course or had not previously taken more than one semester of a foreign language.
(13) Three groups were compared over grades as follows: (a) an at-risk experimental group of low-socioeconomic status (SES) students for whom teachers implemented classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) beginning with the second semester of first grade continuing through Grade 3; (b) an equivalent at-risk control group; and (c) a non-risk comparison group of students of average- to high-SES.
(14) This issue is not so clear-cut,” says Kelvin Rodrigues, a second-semester medical student at UFPel who is critical of the evaluation committee, even if he supports expelling those who commit blatant racial fraud.
(15) The prevalence of anemia in the first trimesters (3.6%) was significantly smaller than that found in the second (20.9%) and third semesters (32.1%).
(16) Rational Beliefs Inventory, and the Reasons for Living Inventory at the beginning of the semester.
(17) The median correlation coefficients between the three ACT-PEP tests and the semester grade point averages ranged from .36 to .56.
(18) The number of abnormal records was referred to the three periods of the first year of life: first and second trimester, and the second semester of the first year of life, and also to treatment.
(19) Analysis with chi square (p less than .05) compared pre-semester responses (no.
(20) The LSI was administered during the first semester of professional studies.
Turm
Definition:
(n.) A troop; a company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Claude Turmes, vice chair of the Green Group of MEPs, said: "It is important that we ensure ambitious and coherent binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions, renewables and energy savings.
(2) Luxembourg MEP Claude Turmes, who denied that the leaked documents came from his office, said: "Britain is leading the attempt to undermine the climate change directive.
(3) Claude Turmes, the Green MEP who was the European parliament draftsman for the original renewable energy directive, warned that the UK government's stance would imperil efforts to tackle climate change.
(4) Claude Turmes, a Green MEP who helped negotiate the original efficiency package, said the fear of bad headlines had stalled the measures.
(5) Claude Turmes, the Luxembourg Green MEP who led the negotiations for the European parliament, said he had "mixed feelings" about the biofuels factor.
(6) Claude Turmes, a leading Green in the European parliament, told the Guardian: "We think these plans for feed-in tariffs for nuclear are state aid for nuclear power, which would not be allowed.
(7) Ariel Brunner, the head of EU policy for Birdlife , a conservation organisation disputed Turmes and de Jaeger's arguments head on.
(8) Unlike the situation in some other rodents, maternal blood draining from the trophospongial layer was always contained in channels lined by a layer of squamous cells which, in turm, was separated from the trophospongial cells by a basal lamina.
(9) The air quality directive really is a good package of legislation intended to improve the air that we all breathe.” “It is clear that Timmermans wants to kill the packages but we still have a week left to organise maximum pressure and ensure that stupid decisions are not taken,” the Green MEP Claude Turmes said.
(10) But Filip de Jaeger, the secretary general of the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries echoed many of Turmes points.
(11) Claude Turmes, the vice-chair of the Green Party in the European Parliament , was instrumental in negotiating the original Renewable Energy Directive, which included biomass.
(12) Ecodesign measures are one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing emissions and have been strongly supported by successive UK governments, including David Cameron’s, Turmes added.
(13) "We hear all the time that government is the problem but it turms out we really need it in lots of different ways."
(14) The question of the origin of the potential changes is discussed and it is proposed that the lasting hyperpolarization results from an effect on the passive permeabilities to Na+, K+ and Cl- ions inducing in turm a secondary readjustment (stimulation) of the Na+ active transport while the depolarization at high pressures reflects a direct inhibition of the Na+ pump.
(15) Claude Turmes, green energy spokesperson, said: "Shale gas is not the silver bullet for Europe's energy policy but rather a dangerous Trojan horse.