After a pleasant weeklong test drive of the sporty, top-of-the-line Sentra SE, however, I wondered if more would be enough in the intensely competitive small-car market.
Service and quality-control initiatives include more English-Spanish training for store workers, mystery shoppers assigned to put pleasant service to the test, and an "e-learning" program to update employees on new products and services more quickly.
Its lemon-lime flavor "was the lightest and most pleasant" of all those tested, and Dr. Shulman liked how it "remained light as the liquid got warmer" during a ride, instead of becoming saltier, as the Nuun did.
Three types of mixtures were tested: 1) pleasant odorant mixed with a pleasant odorant (L-carvone and linalool); 2) unpleasant odorant mixed with an unpleasant odorant (valeric acid and isovaleric acid); and, finally, 3) pleasant odorant mixed with an unpleasant odorant (L-carvone mixed with valeric acid, linalool mixed with isovaleric acid, and phenylethyl alcohol mixed with Butaoinc acid).
During taste reactivity tests, however, IL-1β treated rats displayed significantly poorer ingestive reactions to pleasant taste stimuli than did animals of the control group.
And while writing a will may be about as pleasant as undergoing a medical test, it is a chore that may be just as important, experts say.
Because mean baseline startle response differed by a factor of 10 between individuals, z-scores standardized to the control condition within each subject and test session for pleasant and unpleasant images, and positive and negative anticipation were used in the analyses (magnitude of each startle − mean magnitude of control startles)/standard deviation of magnitude control startles.
If the great eight is completed Sunday, Saturday's race will be remembered as the most pleasant of surprises, Phelps finally tested in an individual event and getting it done the hardest of ways.
She seemed pleasant enough but could be testing me.
To illustrate this finding, we used a median split to divide participants into two groups: the more optimistic (n = 8) and the more pessimistic (n = 7), with pessimistic participants reporting significantly more pleasant relief (one-tailed t-test, p = 0.035).
