(n.) A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
(n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
(n.) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
(n.) A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
(a.) Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
(a.) Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
(adv.) In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
(v. t.) To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
(2) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(3) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(4) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(5) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(6) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(7) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
(8) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(9) The greater use of health services for female children probably accounts for the female-biased sex ratio among the Mukogodo.
(10) The possibility that selective bias or unmeasured environmental differences might explain the difference in BP between the two groups is discussed.
(11) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(12) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
(13) This suggests that monitoring heart rate during limited portions of the day will provide a biased estimate of overall heart rate.
(14) Analogous biases and solutions apply to other sampling problems in health services research.
(15) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
(16) A model was investigated which simulated choices one may have between disease classification tests, to determine how the required sample size and bias in the estimates of the risk ratio and risk difference varied between tests.
(17) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(18) We confirm that sera from patients on intravenous therapy with lidocaine exhibit a positive bias in results for creatinine but that lidocaine itself does not interfere.
(19) We discuss advantages and disadvantages of total randomization, of Zelen-type randomization procedures, of Efron-type procedures vs more classical blocking procedures to control the balance between groups, and of Simon-Pocock-type procedures vs more classical stratification for controlling possible biases in prognostic factors.
(20) (4) R(XY)(t,tau) is a biased estimator of the shape of h(t), generally over-estimating both its time to peak and its rise time.
Crosswise
Definition:
(adv.) In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resulting from old cleaning ceremonies and preventing or treating uncanny effects in children, it was been usual to lick forehead of newborn and children crosswise.
(2) This method described gives relief only when vitreous strands traverse the whole bulbus crosswise.
(3) The Laplacian operator in electroencephalographic measurements consists of a mathematical combination of the responses from a number of electrodes (e.g., five in a crosswise montage).
(4) The crosswise arrangement of the blastomeres in the rabbit at the 4-cell stage is a consequence of a 90 degree rotation of the polar axis in one hemisphere of the egg.
(5) Numerous nerve bundles of variable size were coiled around the anastomosing channels, and occasional bundles ran crosswise over the U-shaped bent vessels.
(6) Barium eluates of the liver and of the brain restored the effect of 3', 5'-AMP eliminated by BaSO4, crosswise and equally.
(7) It was demonstrated that the pattern of cleavage in the rabbit differs from that in the sea urchin, because the blastomeres at the 4-cell stage are arranged crosswise in the former, while they are situated next to each other in the latter.
(8) In crosswise mixed incubation experiments with isolated combined VLD and LDL and total lipoprotein depleted plasma from a control subject and a patient with fish eye disease, respectively, esterification of free cholesterol occurred.
(9) Spleen cells showed a markedly high level of activity 7 days after the reconstitution, followed by a decline, whereas the activity of bone marrow cells was very low on day 7 and increased crosswise.
(10) Helical fibres in crosswise arrangement rather than isolated sphincters are recordable from the pyloric region.
(11) Phage phiKZ has unique characteristics of particle (a large size of the head and the presence in the head of a structure which is visible on electron micrographs as crosswise striated substance).
(12) 2) Imaging of the right-ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) for evaluation of RVOT obstruction, including a crosswise imaging of aortic valve.
(13) The modification of the operation consists in additional longitudinal osteotomy of the sternum, suturing of the manubrium to the sternum shaft, non-suturing of the rib cartilages after resection, filling of the through-like groove in the reposited sternum with the fragments of the resected rib cartilages, and immobilization of the fragments of the longitudinally osteotomized sternum that are inserted crosswise with several (usually three) Kirschner wires, based on the thorax.
(14) For this purpose, a crosswise cut slice approximately 100 microns thick was cut off at the middle level of the root, which permitted comparative quantification of the instrumented area of the buccal and lingual canals.
(15) According to the muscle extent a variable number of electrodes are inserted crosswise the fibers.
(16) The reason for this is presumably the lack of biostability, the tendency of the fibres to fracture crosswise, and the much lower concentration of fibres in the critical length-diameter range.
(17) At the level of the second cell and crosswise to the building slighter temperature differences were observed and the temperature was higher.
(18) Physicochemical characterisation, precipitation, using polyclonal antisera, and crosswise neutralisation of lysis reaction were likely to suggest occurrence of immunological relationship reactions as well as differences between organ lysozymes, on the one hand, and intestinal lysozymes, on the other.
(19) A new type of nephrostomy is described with the following main characteristics: it uses a small multiperforated Silastic tube; its crosswise location allows perfect drainage of all of the calyces and the pelvis; it does not become obstructed nor move from its position; and it causes minimum traumatization of the renal parenchyma.
(20) The surface layer of the cuticle is crosswise and lengthwise ridged.