Sentences with phrase «group share characteristics»

The breeds in this group share characteristics of intelligence and an ability to learn quickly.

Not exact matches

Market segmentation refers to dividing a group of potential customers into segments based on characteristics, such as shared demographic traits or interests, for targeted marketing.

The series also included the example of a modern banking model that combined characteristics of both the fragmented 19th century US and great resilience, thanks to its peculiar liability - sharing, funds transfer mechanism and cross-control structure: the German Sparkassen Finanzgruppe (saving banks group; see post here).

From their knowledge it is possible to arrange people into groups defined by certain shared characteristics.

And they certainly don't say anything about a specific person who shares one characteristic of a studied group but not others (for example, the life - expectancy of a non-promiscuous, non-drug-using, non-depressed gay person).

Thus Lifton indicates that one characteristic distinguishing the rap groups from traditional therapy was «that of affinity, the coming together of people who share a particular... historical and personal experience, along with a basic perspective on that experience, in order to make some sense of it.»

Chimpanzees» of which we share 99 % of our DNA, display the same love and compassion characteristics as us... it is easier to survive / mutually beneficial to work as a group vs. by yourself.

In order for small groups to be significant resources for growth, personal sharing needs to he a chief characteristic.

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

A second characteristic of the sharing group is its emphasis on communicating feeling.

Indeed, the first distinguishing characteristic of the sharing group is that it combines the therapeutic with the educational.

And its members believed that they were called to do this because, as a group and as individuals, they were potentially capable of sharing in that special and central characteristic of the life of Jesus: his free, confident and intimate relationship with God — sonship.

It was not these differences I wanted to highlight here, however, but the characteristic these groups share.

«Although we saw some of the hallmark characteristics of bilateral growth and development, we don't believe Dickinsonia was a precursor to today's bilaterians, rather that these are two distinct groups that shared a common set of ancestral genes that are present throughout the animal lineage,» Evans said.

Niels Peder Kristensen and Klaus - Dieter Klass found that all three specimens shared some characteristics with stick insects and an obscure group called ice crawlers.

Regardless of the format and content, successful groups share two characteristics.

The genetic data, which includes about one million markers across the genome, is compared among individuals, among populations, and between current and ancestral populations to determine hidden patterns of relatedness, sort individuals into groups that share genetic characteristics, and find correlations with genes of medical relevance.

But a few mammals such as bats, whales and elephants use complex and varied vocalizations that share some characteristics with human speech such as the ability to learn vocalizations from other members of their social group.

A strain is a group of individual organisms belonging to a species that share one or more distinctive characteristics.

Applying these strictures to modern animals is fairly straightforward, since these two characteristics are restricted only to members of the clade Ruminantia, which is the subgroup of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, pronghorn, mouse deer, giraffe (Zivotofsky 2000) and okapi (a clade is a taxonomic group whose members share a common ancestry; in this case it does not have a formal associated Linnaean level, such as family or order).

«Price consistently noted that the diets of groups in which tooth decay was prevalent shared certain characteristics — namely, the prominence of refined foods as staples.

We neatly put colors into groups called Color Families and, in the same way that a real family shares a blood line, a Color Family shares characteristics that tie them together.

People often use physical characteristics such as these — along with area of geographic origin and shared culture — to group themselves and others into «races.»

The changes in performance reported below for each group of schools have all been adjusted to take into account any changes between 2001 - 02 and 2002 - 03 in schools» demographic characteristics, such as the share of students participating in the federal school lunch program and the ethnic breakdown of the student body.

These groupings provide initial evidence that the most similar schools across all characteristics do not share the same governing agency and type.

Because Indiana public and private schools use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school students who shared similar achievement trajectories and demographic characteristics with these voucher students at baseline (the year prior to a student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups» academic progress for up to four subsequent years.

Our extensive data and control group methodologies allow educators to compare one student's academic growth to anonymized data from students across the country who perform similarly, share similar demographic characteristics, and are educated in similar schools.

NAEP results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics: gender, type of school, location, race / ethnicity, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch programs, students with disabilities, and students identified as English language learners.

A report by the National College for School Leadership into «hard» federations (groups of maintained schools with shared governance) found that schools in federations performed better than schools with apparently similar characteristics that had not federated.

Results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics — race or ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch, highest level of parental education, type of school, charter school, type of school location, region of the country, status as students with disabilities, and status as students identified as English language learners.

Smart beta ETFs are designed to target what are called «factors,» or shared characteristics that can help explain the risk and return of a group of stocks.

A group of stocks, often related to a particular industry, that have certain shared characteristics.

There is one breed of American Pit Bull Terrier, but the term «pit bull» is a term used to define a group of breeds that share similar characteristics.

For example, the Dachshund shares many characteristics with terriers, yet AKC placed it in the hound group, perhaps as much because of a misinterpretation of the breed's German name as its scenting ability.

[17] Further, some groups of dogs which clearly share a persistent set of characteristics and documented descent from a known foundation stock may still not be recognized by some clubs as breeds.

The American Kennel Club categorized the different breeds by groups with each group having distinguishing characteristics that are shared by all the breeds in it.

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Boss writes that the characteristics of such illnesses include, among other things, «symptom complex suggesting organic illness but without identifiable cause, no illness among other groups sharing the same environment, illness not related to physical proximity to exposure...».

Although seniors may not be a typical «minority group,» and may even include privileged individuals, they have some central characteristics of minority groups such as identifiable physical characteristics and shared social and institutional expectations (including the expectation of retirement).

In addressing the issue on membership of a Particular Social Group («PSG»)(paras. 41 to 49), the Court reaffirmed the Directive's two limb approach, firstly, identification of the shared characteristic, and secondly, the recognition of that identity, «it is perceived as being different by the surrounding society».

[10] «(d) a group shall be considered to form a particular social group where in particular: members of that group share an innate characteristic, or a common background that can not be changed, or share a characteristic or belief that is so fundamental to identity or conscience that a person should not be forced to renounce it, and that group has a distinct identity in the relevant country, because it is perceived as being different by the surrounding society; depending on the circumstances in the country of origin, a particular social group might include a group based on a common characteristic of sexual orientation.

Both federal and California employment laws define a protected class as a group of people who share a common characteristic and are legally protected from discrimination on the basis of that characteristic.

As one might expect, companies must refrain from engaging in direct or indirect discrimination — indirect discrimination being workplace rules, policies or requirements that disproportionately and unfairly affect groups of people who share a certain protected characteristic.

The purpose of this Act is to establish measures for preventing and combatting hate speech and speech inciting violence... that are engaged in or disseminated publicly and that target a group of people sharing a characteristic identified as prohibited grounds for discrimination under section 10 of the Charter of human rights and freedoms (chapter C - 12).»

The information you provide is compared to other's who share your characteristics to determine the average accident or claim rate in your group.

limits or conditions imposed by the rules of the Association to become and remain a member are, in my opinion, alien to the notion of a group with a sole defining characteristic of sharing, having or enjoying native title.22

This decision is supported by the fact that the criterion variable (TWMM) is dependent both on individual characteristics and on the particular experience shared by all members of each specific group.