(n.) One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.
Example Sentences:
(1) These motives were satisfactorily realised, according to the 'stayers'; and 'leavers' scored less favourably, but still at a high level.
(2) Sometimes, loading for endurance in skater-stayers produces rather essential disturbances in structure of muscle fibers up to their necrosis.
(3) The distributions of haemoglobin, erythrocyte count and haematocrit were significantly higher in colt stayers compared to the other three groups.
(4) Eighty-two per cent of them declared that they were, in general, (very) satisfied with their work; these included 94 per cent of the 'stayers' and 63 per cent of the 'leavers'.
(5) Students who had abandoned their original preference for family medicine (defectors) were compared with students who had maintained an interest in family medicine (stayers).
(6) Few who use home- and community-based long-term care would otherwise have been long-stayers in nursing homes.
(7) In fillies these values were also significantly higher in stayers compared to sprinters.
(8) This study also identified a subgroup of "potential defector" students (within the stayer cohort) who maintained an interest in family practice but evidenced concerns similar to the defector students.
(9) At baseline drop-outs were more likely to have lower educational qualifications than those who participated in both the baseline and follow-up studies (stayers) and included significantly more smokers than non-smokers.
(10) The same picture was also seen in the other features studied; the 'stayers' were very satisfied with their working conditions and the future possibilities of the group practice, while the 'leavers' reacted less positively, but, on average, not negatively.
(11) Coronary risk factors of newcomers were not different from that of the stayers at follow-up except for slightly, but not significantly, higher smoking rates in newcomers.
(12) The relationship between employee turnover and performance was measured for 144 leavers and 144 stayers across 32 positions in a large institution for mentally retarded people.
(13) Racing Victoria later confirmed the English-trained stayer had undergone a successful operation to stabilise a fractured fetlock.
(14) Eosinophil counts were significantly higher in the stayer groups compared to the sprinters.
(15) The permanent stayers differed from the two other nursing home sub-groups, and from community residents, in that they tended to be older and more functionally and mentally impaired.
(16) Results of blood counts have been analysed in three-year-old racehorses in training comprising 77 colt stayers, 27 colt sprinters, 61 filly stayers and 35 filly sprinters.
(17) These tests assessed (1) differences between dropouts and stayers in terms of pretest indices of primary outcome variables (substance use), (2) differences in change scores for dropouts and stayers, (3) differences in rates of attrition among experimental conditions, and (4) differences in pretest indices for dropouts among conditions.
(18) The discrete-time mover-stayer model (Blumen, Kogan, and McCarthy, 1955, The Industrial Mobility of Labor as a Probability Process, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press) is a useful model for studying changes over time in heterogeneous populations.
(19) Seven variables were found to be significantly overrepresented among the long stayers, including treatment with electroconvulsive therapy, medical consultations, underemployment, dementia, disposition to a place other than home, absence of alcohol or drug abuse, and presence of psychosis without affective symptoms.
(20) The short term stayers and those who died following admission to a nursing home differed from respondents who did not enter nursing homes--primarily in terms of prior living arrangements and levels of social support.
Strayer
Definition:
(n.) One who strays; a wanderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biological response modifier r(I)n.r(C12-U)n, referred to here as mismatched double-stranded (ds) RNA, was examined for antihuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) activity in vitro because of its known antiviral activity and ability to induce interferon (IFN) in other biological systems [Carter, W. A., Strayer, D. R., Hubbell, H. R. & Brodsky, I.
(2) The authors have demonstrated, by the use of metal markers and radiographic control at operation, that adequate release cannot be achieved by severance of the calcaneal tendon alone, and that in order to ensure relaxation of the gastrocnemius muscle, the operation of choice is gastrocnemius recession by the method of Strayer, coupled with lengthening of the calcaneal tendon to deal with such degree of the deformity as may be attributable to shortening of the soleus.
(3) Malignant rabbit fibroma virus (MV) is a recombinant poxvirus derived from Shope fibroma virus (SFV) and rabbit myxoma virus (D. S. Strayer, E. Skaletsky, G. F. Cabirac, P. A.
(4) The sequence for the BamHI "C" fragment of MV is reported elsewhere (Strayer et al., 1991).