Canadians and Russians are both blessed with lands that are simply irreproduciblein beauty and life, and if would be to our enduring shame if we despoiled this wantonly.
irreproducible in American English
(iˌriprəˈduːsəbəl, -ˈdjuː-)
adjective
not reproducible
Derived forms
irreproducibility
noun
Word origin
[1865–70; ir-2 + reproducible]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: batting average, goulash, racism, steamroller, tick-tack-toe
Examples of 'irreproducible' in a sentence
irreproducible
Here we report the experience and offer the explanation underlying these apparently irreproducible results.
Dario Coletti, Sergio Adamo, Viviana Moresi 2017, 'Of faeces and sweat. How much a mouse is willing to run: having a hard time measuringspontaneous physical activity in different mouse sub-strains', European Journal of Translational Myologyhttp://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/article/view/6483. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Many protocols end up with conjugates with unpredictable and irreproducible conjugation ratios.
Ioana M. Abbas, Timm Schwaar, Frank Bienwald, Michael G. Weller 2017, 'Predictable Peptide Conjugation Ratios by Activation of Proteins with SuccinimidylIodoacetate (SIA)', Methods and Protocolshttps://www.mdpi.com/2409-9279/1/1/2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, two major drawbacks have been irreproducible results and excessive staining precipitates.
John Ogunsola, Richard Antia 2018, 'Adaptation of the agyrophil technique for nucleolar organizer regions to canine peripheralblood smears', Open Veterinary Journalhttp://www.openveterinaryjournal.com/OVJ-2018-01-01%20J.%20Ogunsola%20and%20R.%20Antia.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These adaptation dynamics were accompanied by a non-specific and irreproducible genome-wide transcriptionalresponse.
Yair Katzir, Elad Stolovicki, Shay Stern, Erez Braun 2012, 'Cellular plasticity enables adaptation to unforeseen cell-cycle rewiring challenges.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3445480?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This may lead to misleading or irreproducible experimental data.
Diana Moreira, Nuno Santarém, Inês Loureiro, Joana Tavares, Ana Marta Silva, Ana MarinaAmorim, Ali Ouaissi, Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva, Ricardo Silvestre 2012, 'Impact of continuous axenic cultivation in Leishmania infantum virulence.', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseaseshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3265455?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
As a result, electrostatic phenomena are often irreproducible and uncontrolled, causing serious practical problems.
Rubia F. Gouveia, Telma R. D. Ducati, Thiago A. L. Burgo, Camila A. Rezende, JulianaS. Bernardes, Fernando Galembeck 2010, 'Eletrização de dielétricos: novas propostas para resolver velhos problemas Electrostaticcharging of dielectrics: new approaches to solve persisting problems', Química Novahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422010001000019. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
More antibody validation protocols would identify non-specific reagents – a major source of irreproducible research – with the inclusion of negative controls.
Will Olds, Jason Li 2016, 'siRNA knockdown validation 101: Incorporating negative controls in antibody research[version 1; referees: 2 approved]', F1000Researchhttp://f1000research.com/articles/5-308/v1. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We review why degrading p-values into ‘significant' and ‘nonsignificant' contributes to making studies irreproducible, or to making them seem irreproducible.
Valentin Amrhein, Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt, Tobias Roth 2017, 'The earth is flat (p > 0.05): significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicableresearch', PeerJhttps://peerj.com/articles/3544.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Manual processing may introduce subjective, irreproducible decisions into the data processing work flow, reducing consistency in processing between surveys.
Lisa-Marie Katarina Harrison, Martin James Cox, Martin James Cox, Georg eSkaret, RoberteHarcourt 2015, 'The R package EchoviewR for automated processing of active acoustic data using Echoview',Frontiers in Marine Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2015.00015/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The solar wind serves as a laboratory for investigating magnetohydrodynamic turbulence under conditions irreproducible on the terra firma.
V. Krishan, S. M. Mahajan 2005, 'Modeling of short scale turbulence in the solar wind', Nonlinear Processes in Geophysicshttp://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/12/75/2005/npg-12-75-2005.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)