What's the difference between embeddedness and fixity?
Embeddedness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These data support a hypothesis that the perception of social embeddedness rather than the actual availability of social supports mediates reactions to stressful life events.
(2) It is a sense of "selfsameness and continuity in time" and of embeddedness in the "environment" (Erikson 1959, 1968).
(3) The purpose of this study was to examine the independent and interactive relationships of measures of network embeddedness and perceived social support with mental and physical health measures from responses of a sample of 271 community-dwelling elderly women.
(4) Furthermore, stating that a DSC was present in the time interval tl0tn implies stating that all experiences were abnormal in some way during the interval--when the word "experience" is taken in the broad sense, including William James' "fringe" and "embeddedness" in the stream of consciousness.
(5) This paper critically analyses the historical embeddedness and ideological functions of the concept of community as it is used in South Africa by representatives of the state and its opponents.
(6) The occupational therapist is part of the social support system and can work with the parents to enlarge their feelings of social embeddedness and support.
(7) The suggestion is that some studies fail to take into account the two factors of embeddedness (role of complex noun phrase within the sentence) and focus (role of head noun in the relative clause).
(8) One consequence of the embeddedness of frame systems is that global frames may function as "semantic pattern detectors," so that the perceptual knowledge in them could be used for relatively automatic pattern recognition and comprehension.
(9) The paper examines some conceptual issues underlying the method: the psychosocial functions of narratives, their structure, their embeddedness in interview responses, their linguistic macrofunctions and the concept of core narrative.
(10) It stresses the negotiated, constructed nature of "reality,"the historical embeddedness and unique quality of action as it unfolds, and the importance of negotiation making use of multiple perspectives.
(11) This interpretation of the female genital experience provides a psychoanalytic framework for the object embeddedness long observed as part of the feminine character.
(12) Elderly women with low perceived family support had poorer psychological well-being regardless of perceived support from friends or network embeddedness.
(13) Response time varied directly with the amount of noise and with embeddedness, and inversely with age, producing analogous response planes along the age dimension.
(14) Quantitative social isolation was measured as the co-occurrence of low network embeddedness with family and with friends.
(15) A promising new "ecumenical" movement in psychiatry attempts to synthesize the two great intellectual traditions, psychoanalysis and neurobiology, so that we may avoid splitting the care of the patient into the partial domains of biotherapy that lacks the understanding of mental interrelations and purely psychological psychotherapy that lacks an appreciation of the embeddedness of mental processes in brain function.
(16) Lower class was associated with weaker social support (embeddedness), which was related to distress, supporting the resource deterrent hypothesis.
Fixity
Definition:
(n.) Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
(n.) Coherence of parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) A history of pain, hardness, and fixity, found in 30-50% of parotid cancers, were significant indicators of malignancy.
(2) Lesions observed in the small bowel included fixity of bowel loops, thickening of the wall, coarsening of the mucosal pattern and strictures.
(3) Rectal endosonographic estimation of rectal cancer depth of invasion is an accurate measure of tumour penetration and may help distinguish between fixation due to inflammatory tissue and tumour fixity.
(4) Or it could be an excuse for division, intrigue and the sort of ideological fixity that makes the voters nervous of the Tories in confined spaces.
(5) skin tumors occurring over the breast may be clinically mistaken for breast carcinoma owing to their fixity to the skin.
(6) The indispensable distance between a fictional model and the fixity of a model (such as the electroencephalographic trace) becomes a fertile source when other paths are prudently explored and in the reduction of the illusion that one model can possibly overlap the other.
(7) The fixity of the therapeutic demand of the transsexual renders it refractory to psychotherapeutic analysis, which always tries to reveal an other demand behind the explicit demand.
(8) We therefore measured the activity of four peptidases in 50 specimens of tumour and normal colonic wall from patients with a rectal or sigmoid carcinoma, and correlated this with the stage, differentiation, fixity of the tumour and presence of venous invasion, determined histologically.
(9) It is stressed in one case the particular fixity of the maternal phantasmatic world and in the other the modifiability which can be influenced, in the latter case, by the conscious fantasies and the relationship with her own family and her own child.
(10) A quantitative method was proposed to evaluate with greater sensitivity the intensity of delusional conviction and its fixity over time.
(11) Also, operators postures are often incorrect, making problems related to their own fixity worse.
(12) Observations during operation such as palpable lymph nodes, fixity to adjacent organs, and tumor spill were related to a diminished tumor-free survival.
(13) The Ho's N-staging is superior to the other N-stage classifications, because once the Ho's N-stage has been determined, other nodal characteristics including nodal size, multiplicity, laterality, and fixity, are prognostically insignificant.
(14) There were two special characteristics: fixity in time, and the ability to produce the pain on palpation of the region around the aorta.
(15) Analyzed parameters were nodal stage, size, site and fixity, and location of primary.
(16) The posterior larynx was the site of a major inflammation with fixity of the arytenoids.
(17) Questions concerning the issues of fixity and intensity of delusions are raised and a proposal is made for attempting to operationalize these concepts using a 'personal questionnaire' method.
(18) The regional outcome is influenced by clinical features such as nodal size, multiplicity and fixity.
(19) Mobility versus fixity was defined in terms of more or less frequent changes of rod positions and choice of a high or a low proportion of nongeometrical positions in the RFT-Free.
(20) The measurement in a pilot study of the fixity and intensity of the beliefs of two patients using this method is described and the results reported.