Sentences with phrase «bias for»

Besides a negative bias for perceived social participation, ambiguous facial emotional expressions may play an important role in the disturbed relatedness in patients with BPD.

A randomized controlled trial comparing I - PCIT to both a control group and standard PCIT would provide further confidence in these findings and would be important to address a potential self - selection bias for parents choosing an intensive treatment.

Only one was a national sample, and this was research by telephone survey (Donnelly & Finkelhor, 1992), and while Janet Johnston's clinical sample was included, it was discounted by Bauserman (it clearly contra - indicated joint custody) as, apparently, unreliable because of a selection bias for conflict.

Attentional bias for valenced stimuli as a function of personality in the dot - probe task.

This study aims: (a) to examine whether poverty predicts changes in behavior problems between 1.5 and 8 years of age; (b) to estimate potential selection bias for the observed associations.

Attention bias for angry faces in children with social phobia.

Neither participants nor treatment providers (therapists) can be kept blind to the intervention condition in studies of this nature, therefore, we anticipate a rating of high risk of bias for this criterion in advance.

I came to the law with a bias for only doing what was in the best interest of children, and believe me that is not the focus of most divorce lawyers.

Further, mortality salience has been shown to increase weapon bias for members of an out - group, lending further support to the idea that it may be related to aggressive or defensive responses, though this finding was true for both sexes (Bradley and Kennison 2012).

Recent behavioural evidence indicates that individuals carrying the S allele exhibit stronger attentional bias for negative words (Beevers et al. 2007) and pictures (Osinsky et al. 2008), whereas individuals carrying the L allele demonstrate a stronger attentional bias towards positive pictures and away from negative pictures (Fox et al. 2009).

But I'm bias for a great reason.

The emphasis does away with the presumed bias for moms.

Nonprofits that have a 501 (c) 3 tax status can be well positioned to help with GOTV activities, as long as they are nonpartisan ones and have no evidence of bias for a particular candidate or political party.

Abilities in handling multiple priorities, with a bias for action and a genuine interest in professional development.

Aside from my technical competencies I have a bias for action, a strong work ethic and an unbiased view of situations.

Interpersonal and effective communication, courageous yet have a strong bias for action and a drive for speed, enthusiastic attitude with ability to inspire and motivate others, analytical and strategical thinking in addition to high level of accountability.

A «bias for action» and the ability to implement a variety of initiatives including Organizational Development, Change Management, and Coaching.

Ideal Companies: Any company that values employee ownership, close customer relationships, autonomy, entrepreneruship and has a bias for action.

The Just Recruitment Group are currently recruiting for an Engineering Technician with an Electronics bias for their client based in Colchester, Essex.

A good cover letter will set a positive bias for you, boosting both your resume and your chances of getting the interview.

Exercised a bias for action mentality; making timely decisions after carefully calculating risk during distressed loads

A cover letter sets the stage for your resume and sets a bias for you — either positive or negative.

It's still compact, but I'll admit to having a bias for slightly smaller - screened devices and wish that it maintained the 4.5 - inch screen size of its first generation.

I agree that the «4» rating is very low maybe 6.5 or 7 but giving 4 is way much lower and maybe bias for the company and the phone itself.

Over a 10 - year period, I have a personal bias for equity investments.

Overall it seemed to be a pretty balanced budget with no bias for populist measures that drain the economy in the long term.

Tim Corcoran ably summarized the feelings of many consultants and professional speakers with a recent blog post which includes this excerpt: «Major conferences often have a bias for in - house professionals as presenters.

There are lawyers in Canada and the U.K. that have raised charges of bias for other reasons relating to the panel composition, but these persons are not neutral parties either.

Bikers have fought social bias for years.

Lucky people have a bias for trying things, even if they may fail.

«When we started our journey of selecting a replacement for our current system, we took a fresh approach with no bias for any vendor,» said Bill Tanner, acting chief information officer at Allens.

On further reflection I believe that in principle it doesn't matter how you measure uncertainty (I guess this is what you called bias for individual runs), especially if the aforementioned kind of baseline is unknown.

Hard to argue bias for them, but yes, not much we can do about the real diehards, though just maybe we can stop the spread of this strange malady;)

That fact betrays our society's bias for the techno - fix, the seemingly easy way out.

With the benefit of hindsight, though, it does seem pretty obvious that the models should have a stable Arctic sea - ice bias for this reason.

in 1986 a test was conducted using hourly data to predict the TOB bias for the US.

Since there is a solar radiant bias for CRS and most MMTS, the Daily Tmax is more closely related to local solar max.

The uncertainty in method bias for any of these adjustment algorithms has to be estimated differently and is possible, I think, with proper benchmark testing, as I noted previously, where at least we can determine the limitations of these approaches..

... But by placing the null hypothesis in a priviledged position from which it can only be dislodged by a mountain of observational evidence, this approach provides a strong inbuilt bias for the status quo which can not be justified on any rational decision - theoretic grounds.»

After all, if scientific knowledge were not objective, then its use would just be substituting one bias for another.

This is a «public service» broadcaster that pays lip service to integrity and has become frankly corrupt (you should have seen their bias for Obama versus McCain).

Did the warming bias from the 1980s instrumental changes, create a confirmation bias for Walpole?

They went on to select input parameters for the box model based on observations, computed the difference for those conditions, and asserted that there is a significant bias for climate studies.

Conclusion: Only iteratively reweighted general Deming regression produced statistically unbiased estimates of systematic bias and reliable confidence intervals of bias for all cases.

It is of a type that BEST has removed bias for.

We can approximate the siting bias for a given subset as the difference in its linear trend from the good quality subset.

Climate change skeptics claimed the IPCC 2007 report — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC 2007), which uses scientific facts to argue humans are causing climate change — was based on an alleged bias for positive results by editors and peer reviewers of scientific journals; editors and scientists were accused of suppressing research that did not support the paradigm for carbon dioxide - induced global warming.

• Create a Bias - corrected Observed Ice Thickness Record consisting of all of the observations in the Sea Ice CDR adjusted by subtracting a constant bias for each system which is found relative to a standard observation system (submarines).

My cynical take is they excluded those categories because they'd overwhelm the others and highlight the problem of selection bias for reported MMEs.

When a sample of highly urbanized stations was tested, the adjustments successfully removed warming bias for the 1895 - 1980 period, but left the 1980s - 2000s period effectively unadjusted.