0 a person or thing that prevents something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected:
What is needed is a return-tobaseline extinction condition in which a disruptor is added, such as a concurrent competing alternative.
His method is recommended whenever a disruptor is likely to affect stimulus control as well as response rate.
Moreover, any attempt to write an equation relating behavioral mass to the contingency ratio, which is dimensionless, must introduce a scaling constant having units of the disruptor.
One extreme example is of polar bears absorbing endocrine disruptors that are so far away from where they were released into the environment.
On two occasions the inspector asked the police to help in removing disruptors, and the police did so.
We are taking a leading role in international activities to evaluate the risks of such endocrine disruptors.
Endocrine disruptors can disturb normal development, causing physical and behavioural abnormalities—including reduced intellectual capacity and social adaptability.
There is concern that steroid hormones may act as endocrine disruptors.
