(n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
(n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.
(n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(3) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(4) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(5) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
(6) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
(7) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(8) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(9) In doing so they are often supported by their parents who as well assume an ambivalent attitude towards therapy.
(10) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
(11) The attitude towards drug trials was negative in 79% of the personnel, in contrast to 71% positive in three Swedish mental hospitals.
(12) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(13) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
(14) None of the male students' sexual behaviors were related strongly to parent sexual attitudes.
(15) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
(16) Furthermore, relatives in the activation group showed a more positive attitude to the care than those in the comparison group.
(17) It was possible to achieve this very clear result although a strong aversion to animal experiments and a critical attitude toward biological research exist in Switzerland, as well as in other European countries.
(18) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(19) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(20) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
Trait
Definition:
(v.) A stroke; a touch.
(v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(2) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
(3) There was no significant heterotic effect for any trait measured.
(4) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(5) The group studied scored within the normal range on the traits assessed by the EPQ, STAIX, and STAI.
(6) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
(7) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(8) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(9) It thus appears to determine all the traits associated with M protein.
(10) It may be assumed that this trait in the evaluation of mimics is due to a constitutional and morbid process.
(11) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
(12) The disorder illustrates the problem of variable expressivity of a trait which makes it difficult to predict the risk of having an affected child when only one feature of a syndrome is present in a relative of a fully affected patient.
(13) We interpret our results as bearing on state and trait issues in chronic schizophrenics.
(14) This gives us the foundations to consider the method of evaluation of phenetic distances between natural groups of animals for the set of non-metric threshold skeletal traits more suitable for detection of genetical differentiation of wild populations.
(15) The authors present a schema for conceptualizing psychiatric illness in terms of state and trait disorders.
(16) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
(17) When the effect of apo E polymorphism on serum lipid traits was estimated in boys and girls separately, variation at the apo E gene locus explained 10.4, 13.3, 13.3, and 13.5% of the phenotypic variance in serum total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apo B, and HDL-E levels, respectively, in boys, while in girls only the effect on HDL-E levels (19.3%) reached statistical significance.
(18) We found that the mean G-6PD values were statistically reduced in G-6PD heterozygous females; on the contrary the measurement of true G-6PD activity alone is not a good tool for discriminating heterozygous subjects with and without thalassemic trait.
(19) The following sources of evidence are discussed in order to examine the component parts-in terms of primary traits-of Eysenck's psychoticism scale, which he refers to as a 'superfactor' but which is here viewed as a composite or complex of primary traits.
(20) Although the clinical students compared to preclinical students attributed more positive personality traits to psychiatrists, students interested in taking up careers in psychiatry were few in both groups.