(1) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
(2) In the 18 asymptomatic diamond assorters, electrophysiological studies revealed an ulnar neuropathy in two (again in the hand used for holding the eye-glass).
(3) In assortative mating systems modifiers favoring reduced assortment propensities tend to increase.
(4) On the other hand, in the "Ms" (as in other "panmixed" populations) positive assortative mating among hereditary-predisposed persons is a more significant factor influencing family transmission of EFP, since the correlation between probands and their spouses is rpp = 0.31 (p less than 0.001) in the "Ms", as compared to rpp = 0.19 (p less than 0.1) in the "Rs".
(5) The Price equation provides a natural framework within which to examine certain kinds of non-additive allelic effects, recombination and assortative mating.
(6) Assortative mating is not found and thus cannot explain this effect.
(7) Third, marital assortment was not of sufficient magnitude to account for these common environment effects.
(8) The owner of Biogenesis, the now-closed Florida anti-aging clinic , said in an interview with CBS TV show "60 Minutes" that the 38-year-old sportsman paid him $12,000 per month for an assortment of banned drugs including testosterone and human growth hormone.
(9) Assortative mating was present and environmental factors common to siblings did not make a significant contribution to the phenotypic variance.
(10) The plasma cortisol (PC) level at 08.00 a.m. was assessed in 250 unselected psychiatric inpatients suffering from various disorders, assorted in 8 diagnostic groups.
(11) The initial, intact cellular products of a fusion cross are prototrophic heterokaryons which frequently assort single parental nuclei into monokaryotic blastospores containing biparental cytoplasms.
(12) Linkage analysis using polymorphic restriction sites along the X chromosome in eight SS and one AA family localized the F-cell production (FCP) locus to Xp22.2, with a maximum lod score (logarithm of odds of linkage v independent assortment) of 4.6 at a recombination fraction of 0.04.
(13) Staff battled the rays with an assortment of big umbrellas and pot plants, before covering the entire 57-storey glass wall with non-reflective film – the likely solution in London.
(14) Inbreeding coefficient was estimated for Adyg population and its structure analysed: a random component contributes mostly to the inbreeding coefficient (Fst = 0.00991), non-random component of the inbreeding coefficient being Fis = 0.010009, which testifies to negative marital assortativity among Adygs.
(15) Subtle lighting gives a magical beauty to the assorted ruins below, the Colosseum looming in the background.
(16) Freeman was awarded an MBE in 1998 and over the years picked up an assortment of prestigious gongs for his radio work, including the Sony awards radio personality of the year in 1987, the Radio Academy's outstanding contribution to UK music radio award in 1988, and a special Sony award in May 2000 commemorating 40 years of service to broadcasting.
(17) A significant negative assortative mating pattern was found.
(18) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(19) The significant assortative mating for the sensation-seeking motive in (married) American students reported by Farley and Davis was significantly cross validated on American (N = 160) and German (N = 160) samples randomly selected from two comparable cities in the Federal German Republic and the United States.
(20) The combined data show that there is very highly significant assortative mating, but only of intermediates.
Distorted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Distort
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(3) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(4) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
(5) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(6) However, fractional addressing introduces distortion.
(7) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(8) This raises questions about police integrity and News International's power to distort procedure in a serious criminal matter.
(9) However, all these characteristics can be distorted if measured by means of a variable-proportion procedure, in which the amount of one primary is held constant while the amount of the other is varied in order to measure threshold.
(10) This could distort the relation between height and forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) as age increases.
(11) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(12) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
(13) The data derived have demonstrated the impairment of the function of the indicated system in the test subjects, associated with sexual behavior impairment in the form of exhibitionism which may form the biological basis for distortion of sexual self-consciousness.
(14) The nogalose and aminoglucose sugars lie in the minor and major grooves, respectively, of the distorted B-DNA double helix.
(15) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
(16) The authors suggest the use of minimal HP filtering so that phase-shift distortion is minimized and a larger response amplitude can be recorded.
(17) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(18) Therapeutic application of drugs containing propylene glycol 1.2 as a solvent may distort the results of forensic chemical detection of ethylene glycol from its oxidation products.
(19) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
(20) Synchronization of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions to a cubic distortion frequency fs = 2f1-f2 has been studied.