(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.
Lias
Definition:
(n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because immune senescence most profoundly affects T lymphocyte functions, we suspected that LIA production would decline with age.
(2) Synthesis was shown to occur in the corpus cardiacum by in vitro incorporation of tritium-labelled Trp into Lia-AKH.
(3) In two of seven seroconversion panels tested, LIA HIV detected the presence of HIV antibodies before WB did.
(4) Calcium chloride stimulated insulin effect on PILA, did not affect its action on SZ or PZ, and antagonized its effect on LIA.
(5) As the RCPA is more sensitive, it can be used to test for the presence of HCV in sera which are classified indeterminate by the LIA.
(6) Component B was obtained from preparation LIA-0191 by the method of counter-current distribution and recrystalization from methanol.
(7) We evaluated a two-site immunoluminometric assay (AFP LIA-mat Byk Sangtec) for the determination of alpha-foetoprotein (AFP).
(8) In HIA the risk of N. meningitidis carriage was much lower in non-carriers than carriers of N. lactamica, with an odds ratio of 0.19 (95% CI 0.08-0.47, P = 0.0003); in LIA this association (odds ratio 0.51, P = 0.05) was much weaker.
(9) You experience them in a different way.” Saul, as Lias is talking: “What?
(10) Spleen cells from nude mice are incapable of inducing LIA, while mitomycin-C and irradiated lymphocytes can initiate but not maintain the reaction.
(11) levoris, strain LIA 0868 producing levorin and levoristatin was studied.
(12) In alloxanized rabbits, LIA was decreased by calcium chloride.
(13) I thought, God they must really like terrible German dance music.” Lias saw no live music when he was growing up, other than the occasional pub session with local folk musicians.
(14) The absence of discomfort for the patients may be a decisive factor to choose the monitoring method and LIA procedure may represent a valid alternative to RIA.
(15) An excellent agreement was found between LIA-mat T4 results (y) and the consensus means (x) of the laboratories participating in the national interlaboratory survey (y = 3.79 + 1.02 x, r = 0.98).
(16) Thermodynamic parameters for formation of HA, LiA, and NaA in 80% methanol-water and on DMPC vesicles are reported.
(17) Novel homogeneous methods of luminescent immunoassay (LIA) for (1) antibodies to insulin, (2) insulin and (3) antibodies to trinitrophenyl group are proposed on the basis of regulatory facilities of the enhanced chemiluminescent reaction.
(18) Phenformin significantly lowered PILA, LIA and PZ but raised SZ.
(19) hachijoense, strain LIA-0052 stored for 10 years in a dry state and in the state of a resting culture were studied.
(20) As angiogenic factors promote tumor development we investigated if SCS from tumor-bearing and tumor-resected mice contain factors capable of evoking a LIA response.