Sentence examples for principal contrast from inspiring English sources

The principal contrast is between flat or nearly constant energy prices and time-varying prices that reflect more closely the marginal costs of energy and capacity.

We present a clinical autofluorescence imaging study to assess the depth of the principal contrast mechanisms within the bronchial tissue comparing a narrowband (superficial) and broadband (penetrating) violet excitation.

A close inspection of Table 1 and Figure 2 suggests that at the principal contrast for emotional enhancement (Lag 8), accuracy for the neutral condition appears to worsen, which suggests that the emotional enhancement effect may be an artifact of the decline in accuracy when presented with neutral distractors rather than an increase in emotional accuracy per se.

At the between-participant (group) level, we specified general linear models to test (in sensor space and source space) our principal contrast between the 2 types of S1 sequence: predictable versus scrambled (i.e., the main effect of sequence type).

Principal contrasts were between those events that received correct responses (i.e. hits and correct rejections).

Primary aims of the fMRI analysis were to identify regions common to all three groups for principal contrasts of interest, and to identify areas demonstrating increased or reduced activity in the PTSD group relative to the control or depressed groups.

Principal contrasts of interest were (i) for the three hit conditions (neutral, negative, positive) vs. correct rejections (old > new effects), (ii) between a collapsed emotional hit condition (weighted combination of positive and negative hits) and neutral hits (valence-independent effects), and (iii) between positive, negative and neutral hits separately (valence-specific effects).

The singing of these young principals contrasted with the performance by the towering bass-baritone Eric Owens, singing his first Amonasro, the Ethiopian king and Aida's father.

The minimum principal stress contrast is, respectively, taken as 4, 7 and 10 MPa, with other parameters keeping constant.

Nicolas Slonimsky, the historian and composer to whom Varèse dedicated "Ionisation," showed that the piece adhered to conventional sonata form, with two principal themes, contrasting subjects and sections of development and recapitulation.

The principal approaches contrasting formal and informal do not recognise the informal as a differentiated process bearing various degrees of diversification; they maintain the equivalence of informality and marginality.