(a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
(a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.
Example Sentences:
(1) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(2) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
(3) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
(4) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
(5) Examples include growth trajectories, morphological shapes, and norms of reaction.
(6) This study was designed to assess whether the influences of affect, utility, norm, and habit on intention to seek care promptly for a breast cancer symptom were conditional upon race.
(7) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(8) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
(9) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
(10) In 30 patients, the structure and function of the reproductive organs was within age norm.
(11) On the basis of detected wide species variety of microorganisms potentially dominating by their biotope numerical limits of the norm were determined only for the microbial groups of the accompanying microflora.
(12) Overall, both groups scored higher than the norm and showed a more optimal personality development than has been observed in earlier studies of this kind.
(13) Its average values are significantly lower up to the 6th month post treatment discontinuation and closrm, with only 13 above the norm.
(14) The biological tolerability was excellent without any variation of the biological norm values (47 parameters).
(15) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(16) An interactive effect between drug testing and subjective norms on attitudes toward a company was also significant.
(17) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(18) In the athletic population the maximal aerobic power increased across ages 10 to 14, whereas, the values for the less active norms decreased with age.
(19) This, in turn, would provide the cover to push through aspects of the Trump agenda that require a further suspension of core democratic norms – such as his pledge to deny entry to all Muslims (not only those from selected countries), his Twitter threat to bring in “the feds” to quell street violence in Chicago, or his obvious desire to place restrictions on the press.
(20) Prolonged breast feeding should be encouraged, child health improved, and research conducted on the traditions, norms, customs, and taboos of target populations.
Norma
Definition:
(n.) A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard.
(n.) A mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.
(n.) A templet or gauge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile some residents feel that Norma 26 , a policy meant to incentivise the construction of much-needed low-income housing, is actually driving gentrification.
(2) His approach was to view BBC2 as a channel of serendipity: a place where you might chance upon a nice surprise, such as the history series World War Two: Behind Closed Doors, Simon Schama's The American Future: A History, and, most recently, Norma Percy's acclaimed series Iran and the West.
(3) Severe macroorchism (1.8-4.5 times more, then anthropometric norma for this years) was found at 5 males in first group (10%), and in 8 males in second group (8%).
(4) Four of these seven also had hypocomplementemia, and this hypocomplementemia was characterized by decreased serum CH50, C3 beta1A or C3-C9 but norma serum C1, C4 and C2 by hemolytic assay.
(5) Then the Daily Telegraph reported this week that the DPP, Lloyd Babb, had “come under fire” after recently advising Norma’s family that his office’s position on charging the men was the same as in 2012.
(6) Norma said she had driven from Plano, near Dallas, to look after the 83-year-old, who suffered a cut and bruising.
(7) Margaret Attwater said her son, then 36, whose “on-again, off-again” relationship with Norma carried over about nine months, was “brought up not to hit women”.
(8) Norma Hulme, a 72-year-old from Northenden, says the prime minister would probably get chased away if he returned to the area.
(9) Margaret Attwater recalls her son being “in shock” in the aftermath of Norma’s death.
(10) Norma Raynes and colleagues describe a Department of Health-sponsored study which investigated the quality of care delivered in four key sectors of community residential care.
(11) Barnes rejected Attwater and Maris’s claims that Norma did not cry out in pain, that she remained conscious after the sex and only later collapsed after going for a swim to wash the blood from her legs.
(12) The best answer probably lies in something his wife says minutes earlier – again, a sentiment likely shared by Norma’s family: “It’s been a nightmare for years.
(13) That seems simple enough, but Norma King of High Barnet wrote five times asking Abbey to close her account.
(14) She stayed here for weeks on end.” Margaret Attwater says she tried to talk Norma into seeing a doctor about her drinking, which was constant.
(15) Algunos residentes opinan que la Norma 26, una política pública diseñada para incentivar la construcción de viviendas muy necesitadas para personas de bajos recursos, está de hecho promoviendo el aburguesamiento.
(16) An inquest in November 2014 found Norma bled to death after a sexual encounter with Attwater and his friend Paul Maris on an overnight camping trip on Ten Mile Beach, half an hour’s drive from Maclean.
(17) The courts might not hold him responsible for the calamity that took place on the beach in the early hours after Australia Day in 2011, but others would attempt to take matters into their own hands, provoked by the circumstances around the death of the woman who can only be legally identified as “Norma”.
(18) Neither Norma’s dismayed family nor police were satisfied with the DPP’s dropping the case and immediately pressed for the inquest.
(19) A sex act performed by Attwater in the back of Maris’s 4WD ruptured an artery inside Norma.
(20) Norma Torres had prepared the paperwork and was ready to apply.