(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.
Predilection
Definition:
(n.) A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predilection of localization of epidermoid and small cell carcinomas in the upper lobes suggests a possible relationship to tobacco smoke inhalation as these regions have been shown to be more affected by the smoke.
(2) A striking predilection was noted for recurrent lesions to be located in the internal carotid artery near the origin, but still within the confines, of the original endarterectomy site and suture line.
(3) There was no gender predilection and the average age at diagnosis was 41 years.
(4) In the pediatric age group, this malformation is notable because of the marked sex predilection in males (70%) and an unequal topographic incidence in the circle of Willis, where carotid artery (39.3%) and anterior communicating artery lesions (30%) predominate.
(5) If the same mechanisms apply in humans they could be important in determining the HLA-DR haplotype associations and the predilection of rheumatoid arthritis for females.
(6) Beyond Donovan of course, the surprise is not so much Klinsmann's well established predilection for throwing youth into testing situations, but the critical mass of inexperience he has gone with.
(7) Ankyloglossia, three times as common in males, was the one trait to exhibit a significant predilection by gender.
(8) It mostly affects children of under 8 years old without special sexual predilection.
(9) Both organisms are opportunistic pathogens with a predilection for patients with foreign bodies in place.
(10) Three types of small cardiac lesions were described and illustrated: (1) focal type of papillary muscle fibrosis, evidently a healed infarct of the papillary muscle present in 13% of autopsies, is a histologically characteristic lesion associated with coronary artery disease and healed myocardial infarction, (2) diffuse type of papillary muscle fibrosis, probably an aging change present in almost half of the autopsies, is associated with sclerosis of the arteries in the papillary muscle, is identifiable histologically, and apparently is not associated with any cardiac abnormality, and (3) focal cardiac myocytolysis, a unique histologic lesion, usually multifocal without predilection for any area of the heart, is associated with ischemic heard disease, death due to cancer complicated by nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis and microthrombi in small cardiac arteries as well as with other diseases.
(11) We found that foods such as snails and eggs have a strong predilection for the bronchial tree as the shock organ.
(12) We have clarified the predilection sites of intracerebral hemorrhage and the advancing direction of the hematoma by studying autopsy cases.
(13) The TH+ amacrines were deleted randomly from the retinas without any peripheral-central predilection.
(14) The predilection of rectal stricture and its proposed precursor, salmonella ulcerative proctitis, for the middle third of the rectum was attributed to a normally precarious arterial supply which renders the rectum unusually susceptible to ischemic injury and decreases its reparative capacity.
(15) Only cats had a sex difference in the occurrence of nasal neoplasms, with a male predilection.
(16) Mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary syndrome (SS) are malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, characterized by the proliferation of helper type T lymphocytes with a predilection for the skin.
(17) Two hundred human breasts removed for clinical cancer by radical mastectomy were analyzed to determine whether apocrine metaplasia and apocrine cysts have predilective sites in the four mammary quadrants.
(18) Predilectional areas also have lower fold indices and higher RWR in younger subjects prior to any intimal thickening development.
(19) Most of the primary tumors (80%) were visible by bronchoscopy, which showed predilection of trachea for cylindromas, left-sided for mucoepidermoid carcinomas and right-sided for carcinoids.
(20) These unusual tumors have a predilection to involve the facial nerve, usually at the geniculate ganglion, internal auditory canal, or middle ear.