(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.
Nias
Definition:
(n.) A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NIa-like protein of plum pox virus is a protease with high sequence specificity that is autocatalytically released from the viral polyprotein.
(2) Development and present stand of treatment of NIA are described.
(3) NCIB 11015, Achromobacter xylosoxidans GIFU 543); II, denitrifying bacteria in which cytochrome c' has not been found (Alcaligenes faecalis IAM 1015, Bacillus firmus NIAS 237, Pseudomonas stutzeri ATCC 17641); III, non-denitrifying bacterium containing cytochrome c' (A. xylosoxidans GIFU 1055).
(4) These results were consistent for NIa protein sequences placed at a foreign TEV cleavage site or in unrelated proteins.
(5) Positive results were correlated with the occurrence of neonatal isohemolytic anemia (NIA) in calves and were used to predict the occurrence of NIA.
(6) Two domains within NIa, one between amino acid residues 1 to 11 (signal domain I) and the other between residues 43 to 72 (signal domain II), were found to function additively for efficient localization of fusion proteins to the nucleus, although either region independently could facilitate a low level of translocation.
(7) Virions expressing the pgI also emerged after serial in vitro passages of the wild-type PRV strain NIA-5 which initially expressed wild-type pgI.
(8) The proteolytic activities at different cleavage sites of several deletion and point mutations of NIa protein have been analysed.
(9) Tour begins 22 November, NIA, Birmingham, thenia.co.uk Black Sabbath Still without original drummer Bill Ward, but with their first US No 1 album (the Rick Rubin-produced 13), the undisputed godfathers of metal play a handful of UK shows.
(10) GL-AIa reacted strongly with beta-glucosyl-Yariv antigen, GL-NIa reacted weakly, whereas GL-NIb and GL-AIb showed no reaction with the antigen.
(11) Intermediate virulent virus 2.4N3A, a mutant strain derived from NIA-3, caused less necrosis of the mucosa and did not reach axons of olfactory nerves until 72 h after inoculation.
(12) Zone C has been defined as the cortical region projecting to the nucleus interpositus anterior (NIA) and posterior (NIP).
(13) The use of probes which permitted translation through as few as 15 nucleotide residues beyond the sequences encoding the proposed carboxyl terminus of NIa resulted in normal processing.
(14) Among various nitrate reductase-deficient mutants, an apoprotein gene mutant (nia.
(15) The unique short (Us) region of the pseudorabies virus (PRV) genome, which displays high transcriptional activity during the late phase of infection and has been found to code for glycoproteins, is partially deleted in the genomes of three vaccine strains (A57, Norden, and NIA-4).
(16) The remaining 80% of the administered dose of NIA or NAM disappeared from rumen liquor without being washed out.
(17) Precipitation of 125I-labeled VPg with anti-tobacco etch virus 49K nuclear inclusion protein antiserum (which reacts with the NIa nuclear inclusion protein of TVMV) indicated that the TVMV VPg is immunologically related to NIa.
(18) But one might have imagined Corbyn would have used the opportunity to send one of the really big power players of the new shadow cabinet – his transport spokeswoman Lilian Greenwood, say, or Nia Griffith, who has the Wales portfolio – rather than his lowly shadow chancellor.
(19) The hindlimb region of RNm receives input from anteriomedial NIA and medial NIP.
(20) To investigate nocturnal leg movement activity and other polysomnographic features in patients with neuroleptic-induced akathisia (NIA), all-night polysomnography was performed in nine patients with NIA and compared with nine healthy individuals and eight unmedicated patients with depression.