(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.
Zodiac
Definition:
(n.) An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16¡ or 18¡ broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac.
(n.) A figure representing the signs, symbols, and constellations of the zodiac.
(n.) A girdle; a belt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
(2) The inner solar system is filled with dust between the planets, called the zodiacal cloud, which starts out at the asteroid belt and slowly drifts towards the sun.
(3) The images’ meanings are not always clear and Boyko is in little rush to explain, but the names of his parents – Alexander and Irina – can be made out along with the Aquarius zodiac sign and, for whatever reason, Dracula.
(4) The Chinese characters which mean "one mind," eagles, dragons, some of 12 zodiacal animals, flowers, and flowers and butterflies or birds were also frequent.
(5) She does not make things easy for herself: she has organised her 800-page epic according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.
(6) The golden heads of zodiac animals, a reference to a famous set that decorated a fountain in an imperial palace outside Beijing until they were looted by Anglo-French troops during the opium wars, will stand keeping watch in the enormous dining room, which is still used by the family on grand occasions.
(7) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(8) This brief note deals with the development of alternative perspectives on the provocative, and as yet unexplained result of an earlier study in which groups of people born under different astrological zodiac signs were found to differ markedly in their scores on the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) scale described as a measure of "Femininity."
(9) Photograph: Sony Pictures Classics Truth review: Blue Jasmine in the 60 Minutes newsroom, with a twist Read more Zodiac screenwriter James Vanderbilt’s directorial debut about the Rathergate scandal that ended the careers of veteran CBS newsman Dan Rather (played by Robert Redford) and 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes (Cate Blanchett) has been eclipsed by Spotlight , this year’s other journalistic thriller.
(10) Ai Weiwei's snake from his circle of animals zodiac heads.
(11) At 35 minutes, watching it was bizarre and exhausting, but its real tone leaps off the printed page in CSPAN’s all-caps transcript : it reads like a Zodiac letter .
(12) Some were related to drug abuse, criminality of gangs, or contained magic symbolism or personal data such as zodiac signs and initials (about 4% each).
(13) It is more likely to be due to observance of Hinoe-Uma (Elder Fire-Horse), which comes round every sixty years by zodiac almanac.
(14) The 40-foot Zodiac called the BS SHEEN that I donated to Mr [Sea Shepherd leader Paul] Watson’s tireless and heroic efforts, has been shamefully seized.
(15) Zodiac is a serial-killer movie where – spoiler alert, kids – they never find the culprit.
(16) The statistical analysis did not reveal any correlation between signs of the zodiac and personality.
(17) Across the world, other would-be saviours are taking advantage of the Chinese zodiac to press home the need for changes in consumption and development patterns.
(18) Though Fincher recoils at the thought of lumping Zuckerberg in with the loner sociopaths that populate much of his previous work – Seven , Fight Club , Panic Room , Zodiac – he steered Jesse Eisenberg , playing the lead, towards maximum opacity by making references to Robert De Niro's character in Taxi Driver.
(19) We investigated whether personality traits measured by means of the differentiated "Freiburger personality inventory" (FPI) could in any way be correlated to the signs of the zodiac under which the young men were born.
(20) There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in the human body; zodiac signs usually change on the 23rd of the month; that crazy bomber dude in the film Airport even sat in seat 23.