Sentence examples for sham activities from inspiring English sources
Butler not only reveals the increasingly sham activities that passed for arms inspection before all pretense of monitoring Iraq ended with American and British bombing in December 1998; he also chronicles his run-ins with Iraqi officials, particularly Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who repeatedly made an issue of Butler's rough, outspoken manner.
For this study, the intervention used sham activities (reading and light touch), but did not require the practitioner to actually engage in another productive activity (e.g., checking a pulse, taking a history) during LKM.
In Sham, SK activity was elevated at each time point studied.
In a repeated measures design we assessed the impact of anodal tDCS (1mA, 2mA, sham) on gamma activity in the left DLPFC at three time-points post-stimulation (0 min, 20 min, 40 min).
Compared to sham animals, mitochondrial activity was markedly impaired in metformin intoxication.
The plateau activity in UUO kidneys was relatively low (~40% of sham kidney's peak activity) as early as day1 post surgery, demonstrating that uptake of 99mTc-MAG3 is rapidly reduced in UUO kidneys.
β2KO mice had a non-significant trend to increased p65 activity in sham compared with FVB (P = 0.17, data not shown), while p65 activity increased significantly (20%) more in FVB than in β2KO mice from sham to MCAO.
Flies demonstrated elevated levels of NF-κB activation in both infected without treatment and infected with antibiotics groups in the first 24 h and sustained elevation of NF-κB activity up to 72 h in infected with antibiotics flies, while activity in sham group was not upregulated after pricking (*p < 0.05).
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) provides a unique opportunity to study causal relationships between activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and executive functioning, by modulating brain activity in SHAM controlled designs.
I imagined what my father and his friends did as a poor copy of the real activity, a sham: Negro golf.
