A lamp illuminated the apparatus, and a white shelf, 50 cm from the top of the apparatus, created a ceiling on which a video camera was mounted to record trials.
But people here do not want to create a ceiling of maximum possible punishment for people who commit the worst of the worst crimes.
Whereas this technology is now fully mature and capable of routinely yielding reads > 800 bp long, its reliance on capillary electrophoresis created a ceiling for the volume and speed of sequences that can be generated inexpensively by this approach [ 3].
Students could have been hesitant to select statements with extreme adjectives (strongly agree/disagree) on the Likert scale (Pollack et al. 1990), creating a ceiling effect by decreasing the number of individuals with high MATE scores.
Of those nine percent who did not increase their ER scores, nearly all were already endorsing ER explanations at almost maximal levels, creating a ceiling effect.
The high baseline scores of our study patients, however, may create a ceiling effect that inhibits observation of long-term changes; in essence, improvements to quality of life may not be as measurable when quality of life is already near the upper scale limits.
Wintertime thermal inversions in narrow mountain valleys create a ceiling effect, increasing concentration of small particulate matter (PM2.5).
The overall high mean adherence may have created a ceiling effect, limiting the scope of the intervention to show a positive effect.
When at dusk the strings of lights that fell down at a 45-degree angle all came on at once, creating a kind of ceiling through which to see the sky, it was hard to say the alley was not beautiful.
Mr. Menin, a partner in the law firm of Levine, Plotkin & Menin, which represents people in the music, fashion and movie businesses, as well as executives in employment negotiations, even consulted with a sound engineer because he was considering creating a vaulted ceiling to enhance the sound of the piano.
The manoeuvre would violate the intent of Congress in creating a debt ceiling (daft though that is).
