The second form of adaptation (which we call adaptive scaling) is less conventional, with increases and decreases in neural firing above and below baseline remaining constant across a range of actual differences between the quantities of predicted and actual reward [Tobler et al., 2005].
So, for example, if I ask how an excise tax will affect the price of coffee, I start by asking how that tax would affect the excess supply of coffee — the difference between the quantity of coffee demanded and the quantity supplied — holding the price constant; then I ask how much the price of coffee has to fall to eliminate that excess supply.
"There is a difference between the quantity of money you have and the way you use it.
Both for the 1 µL and the 2 µL droplets, there was a significant difference between the quantity of water and quinine droplets imbibed (1 µL droplets: Wilcoxon sign ranks test; Z = 2.52, p<0.05; 2 µL droplets: Z = 2.52, p<0.05).
After controlling for the characteristics of patients, the difference between the quantities consumed in the two hospital types would be a good estimation of the inducement in the private hospital.
The differences in the quantities of the lipids between OE cerumen and cerumen of healthy dogs were statistically analysed by t-test followed by the Mann Whitney test as post-hoc test.
Our study has shown that there is very little difference between the quantity and quality of chloroplast DNA sequenced by Illumina shotgun sequencing compared with 454 sequencing of enriched chloroplast DNA.
There was also an observation of differences between groups in the quantities of hypertonic saline needed to maintain a stable pain level over time, indicating that the met/met group needed less hypertonic saline.
There were statistically significant differences between groups in the quantities of FFP, FFP PRBC, platelets, and crystalloids administered, as well as the initial diastolic blood pressure.
One growing difference concerns the quantity of data coming from government departments and other bodies.
