(n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡.
Example Sentences:
(1) Age-adjusted cancer incidence was not elevated in the lower deciles of serum uric acid level.
(2) Tables at the back of the budget Red Book have been carefully constructed to show the impact of direct tax, indirect tax, and benefit and tax credit changes on each decile.
(3) (The UK has for households what amounts to a flat tax system other than for the poorest tenth of households who pay a higher proportion of their income in tax than any other decile.)
(4) The median income for a single adult in the fifth decile is £17,600, but for a couple with two children it is £44,200, which may take them into the 40% tax bracket, helping to explain why so many families on average incomes feel they are in the "squeezed middle".
(5) Children who tend to track in the lowest and highest deciles for HDL cholesterol may also mature to become adults respectively at increased and reduced CHD risk.
(6) Study patients were in the top decile for ambulatory visits, and bad elevated scores for anxiety, depression, and somatization.
(7) Sixteen kindreds were ascertained through probands clinically determined to have primary hypoalphalipoproteinemia, characterized by bottom decile high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), but otherwise normolipidemic.
(8) However, an open-ended scale coupled with transformation of reported ratings into a decile scale virtually eliminated the ceiling effect, thus producing consistently linear functions and maximizing test-retest reliability.
(9) Each decile of posttest probability was compared to the actual prevalence of CAD in that decile.
(10) The report suggests that even after the introduction of universal credit, families in the poorest income decile will be 6% worse off in 2014–15 than they would have been had no changes been made to the tax and benefit system.
(11) Compared with the general twin population, the tenth-decile group contained significantly fewer primiparas (P = .0023).
(12) The relative risk of those located in the upper decile of the estimated risk as compared to the bottom decile was 8.2.
(13) The frequency of dementia climbed with each decile affecting 15% of those less than 75 years, 39% of those 75 to 84, and 47% of those over age 85.
(14) With repeat determinations of the HDL-C levels 10 years later, the levels of the subjects in the low decile group with the S1M1 haplotype had regressed toward the population mean, while the regression was much less substantial for the S2M1 group.
(15) A second survey conducted in 304 men of the original sample 5 years later confirmed that haptoglobin was related to FEV1 (r = -0.21; P less than 0.001) and that wheezing was significantly related to hypohaptoglobinaemia (lower decile; P = 0.04).
(16) A detailed comparison was performed of the mortality patterns of "thin" (decile 1 of Quetelet's index) and "average" weight (deciles 4 and 5) cohort members who were age 40-79 years and free of illness at the beginning of follow-up.
(17) The TD50 is converted into an inverse log scale, a decile scale, and then adjusted by weighting factors that describe other parameters of carcinogenic activity.
(18) However, the entire increase is accounted for by the elderly in the top income decile.
(19) A quarter of all deaths from coronary heart disease related to cholesterol occurred among men with concentrations above the top decile, but 55% occurred among men with concentrations in the middle three fifths of the distribution; this figure of 55% could be reduced only by a policy aimed at lowering concentrations in the whole population.
(20) One hundred schoolchildren aged 11-14 years and representing the top, middle and bottom deciles of the blood pressure range completed a crossover protocol requiring them to raise and lower their sodium intake for alternate periods of 4 weeks.
Planet
Definition:
(n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
(n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(3) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(4) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(5) For the second, this means identifying greener consumption opportunities that result in a competitive advantage while improving the planet’s natural capital.
(6) Beyond capitalism and socialism: could a new economic approach save the planet?
(7) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(8) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
(9) "The forces of capitalism are squeezing out anything that doesn't focus on extracting as much surplus value as it can from people and the planet.
(10) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
(11) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
(12) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(13) Both groups are served by about 17,000 restaurants, most of them proud of their contribution to what the city believes is the highest-quality and most diverse cuisine on the planet.
(14) It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
(15) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(16) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(17) One would assume that green groups would want to make absolutely sure that the money they have raised in the name of saving the planet is not being invested in the companies whose business model requires cooking said planet, and which have been sabotaging all attempts at serious climate action for more than two decades.
(18) The chancellor was full of jokes at Labour’s expense yesterday: gags about Wallace and Gromit, Emily Thornberry, the arid Red Planet.
(19) There we conclude that growth is indeed an “enemy of the planet” – and of its people.
(20) Friends of the Earth's executive director, Andy Atkins, said: "We can't continue to ignore the stark warnings of the catastrophic consequences of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people across the planet.