Sentences with word «dichotomous»

Here's the bizarre dichotomous nature of my life right now.

Because they presented bimodal distributions, the hospitalization and injury outcomes variables were analyzed as dichotomous variables with logistic regressions using the same hierarchical model design.

This dual resource will meet the needs of land managers making economic decisions regarding livestock production and field treatments; university students in wildlife and range sciences conducting class exercises and field research; K - 12 educators during field botany excursions, teaching the use of dichotomous keys, and ecosystem studies; and recreationists engaged in nature study.

It is a 12 - item tool with dichotomous scoring method (0 -0-1-1), which determines the point prevalence of psychological distress or «caseness», with the most widely used threshold being ≥ 4.37 The scores, relating to symptoms over the previous «few weeks», range from 0 to 12, with 0 indicating no evidence of probable mental ill health, 1 — 3 indicating less than optimal mental health and 4 or more indicating probable mental ill health.

I really think dichotomous thinking like that makes sound analysis or any real discussion next to impossible.

In my observations, I see science deniers engage in dichotomous thinking about truth claims.

In the form of both a printed book and an offline app for iPhones and Androids, the guide will include colorful images showing detailed characteristics and vegetative features of each grass, an easy - to - use dichotomous key, and information on each plant's history, forage value, fire resistance, and other details.

This flexibility demands sensitivity to a dialectic of dichotomous relationships: foreground and background, construction and deconstruction, structure and its abstraction.

«Amy» — the highest - grossing British documentary of all time — gives an insight into the short, volatile and dichotomous life of the jazz diva, who was found dead on July 2011 from alcohol poisoning at the age of 27 at her home in Camden here.

From even these cursory observations, we see that the simple dichotomous view of «international» vs «grassroots» activism makes less and less sense.In one «workshop» about 40 of us shared what frustrated us and what we appreciated about our own and each others» social and environmental activism across the spectrum.

The two dimensions are continuous variables, not dichotomous; so one may speak of «degrees» of Rousseau's civil religion.

Pet bonding: Pet bonding was measured by the HRS using six dichotomous items adapted (by the HRS) from the Lexington Attachment to Pets Scale (Johnson, Garrity, & Stallones, 1992).

Optimal scoring to predict clinical syndrome classifications was to sum unweighted dichotomous responses across all 18 ASRS questions.

We centered each continuous moderator variable around its mean and for the categorical variables we made dichotomous dummy codes.

Students look at a simple dichotomous key that classifies vertebrates: mammals, birds, fishes, frogs and reptiles.

When dichotomous variables are used, divorce was not associated with any statistically significant change in the psychological well - being of unhappily married adults.

Peter Mandaville and Paul James intended to get away from the modernist dualisms or dichotomous understandings of immanence / transcendence, spirituality / materialism, and sacredness / secularity.

Actuality then became known, sensed, and named as being other than itself, with the gradual but inevitable consequence that dichotomous distinctions have come to dominate our language, consciousness, and experience.

«These terms, Noumenon and Phenomenon, represent dichotomous elements of Kant's metaphysical framework regarding the epistemic nature of synthetic a priori truth for elucidating the rational experience of the thing - in - itself.

In too many games, I feel as though I'm making an arbitrary decision between being an unrealistic portrayal of «good» vs «evil», hamfistedly engaging in acts that beat my character into one of two dichotomous roles.

Nobody will come right out and defend AYP, with its byzantine rules and dichotomous ratings.

The artist's search for a language that could express his diverse interests, and unify the apparently dichotomous worlds of the city and nature, of progress and the ineffable spirit of humanity, is vividly captured.

The FES, developed by Moos and Moos, is a 90 - item self - report dichotomous scale that examines whole - of - family functioning and is compatible with Stress and Coping Theory, and social and ecological systems theory (Franklin, et al., 2004).

However, as insufficient studies reported dichotomous outcomes, we did not pool such events.

The script carries the same dichotomous stamp as the directorial style - not surprising, since The Wachowskis also wrote the screenplay.

At the very least Sucker Punch discovered a way to make dichotomous moral choices mean something more than how to access the perks exclusive to the extreme levels of good or bad karma.

«A Cold War,» Jamison Carter's current solo exhibition, and his second with Klowden Mann, revisits dichotomous themes introduced in his 2013 solo exhibition with the...

«A Cold War,» Jamison Carter's current solo exhibition, and his second with Klowden Mann, revisits dichotomous themes introduced in his 2013 solo exhibition with the gallery, in which he explored the tensions that exist between man's pervasive desire for advancement and the limitations of space - time.

More recently, of course, we saw this with the YBAs [Young British Artists], or earlier in the twentieth century with those artists who seized the apparently dichotomous challenge of being both modern and British, in Paul Nash's words.

Validity was examined dimensionally and through dichotomous sensitivity - specificity analyses.

Neem oil products (containing the natural chemical azadirachtin, an insecticide and repellent) have a place on store shelves, as does dichotomous earth.

The MBTI places you in one of 16 personality types, based on dichotomous categories such as whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, or have a disposition towards being logical or emotional (what it calls «thinking» and» feeling»).

While it's true that there have been suggestions that schools should design a program for students who plan to practice (most of them) and another for students who plan to be academics, the better challenge — and the more exciting one for a curriculum geek in my mind is how we deliberately integrate skills and theory (not really dichotomous) into the same course.

Independent t tests compared total score differences on the BGMC questionnaires across dichotomous variables (e.g., sex).

Usually, the discussion of American liberty is conducted in dichotomous terms.

The result: a constant, dichotomous pull toward both propaganda and art.

With the dawn of the modern age, and certainly with its full unfolding, these opposites became simply given as dichotomous others.