Sentences with phrase «predisposition in»

A genetic predisposition in combination with poor body image is one of the strongest predictors of disordered eating.

Planning decision makers are not required to be impartial but to address the planning issues before them «fairly and on their merits, even though they may approach them with a predisposition in favour of one side of the argument or the other».

Through our interactions with cats over these thousands of years we have, it seems, «created» a genetic predisposition in them to want and seek (if not need) human contact or connection.

There seems to be a genetic predisposition in some dogs (the outlet of the specific type of compulsive behavior may even vary from breed to breed).

However, there is a genetic predisposition in St. Bernards, Great Danes, Irish Setters, Dobermans, German Shepherds and Golden Retrievers.

It is seen with relative frequency in German Shepherd Dogs; therefore, it appears there is a genetic predisposition in this breed.

There may be a genetic predisposition in some strains within the breed - t9 develop furunculous.

With this parental predisposition in mind, a recent evaluation of KIPP middle schools by an independent evaluator is particularly intriguing.

Qi Q, Li Y, Chomistek AK, Kang JH, Curhan GC, Pasquale LR, Willett WC, Rimm EB, Hu FB, Qi L. Television watching, leisure - time physical activity and the genetic predisposition in relation to body mass index in women and men.

She studies how genetic factors correlate with disease in populations, as well as looking for links between genes and disease predisposition in families.

While the cause of bloat is unclear, there is a strong predisposition in some dogs and it is generally thought that GDV is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors.

«But there is a strong predisposition in some dogs.

And there are different medications that we could think about now that influence, you know, the GABA system and some of our treatments — some of the newer medications like topiramate — influence s this system and we could think that, ah, if you have this biologic predisposition in the GABA system, you may respond better to this type of pharmacologic treatment.

«If we can see biological changes and predispositions in people based on social experience in different cultures, then it begins to outline an interdependence between brain development and our social world,» she says.

«All the available evidence indicates that exposure to difference, talking about difference, and applauding difference — the hallmarks of liberal democracy — are the surest ways to aggravate those who are innately intolerant,» Haidt quotes Stenner, «and to guarantee the increased expression of their predispositions in manifestly intolerant attitudes and behaviors.»

Because it is known that autoimmune diseases are linked to genetic predispositions in the MHC — this is yet another reason why potential dog owners of purebred dogs should only deal with respected and reputable breeders who are aware of, and employ breeding practices designed to limit genetic disorders.

What is frustrating is that there's no indication that Flannery paused to «review the bidding» --- something my former editor, Cornelia Dean, always urged her reporters to do — and reflect on his own predispositions in light of what he'd learned in researching the final portion of the book.

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She wants to help solve a bottleneck in healthcare, which is not knowing enough about predispositions to diseases, with the huge data set that results from over 2 million genotyped 23andMe customers.

However, a study performed at Edinburgh University found that much of our predisposition toward determination, sociability, self - control, and sense of purpose is in our genes.

Belief in the hot hand is just a delusion that occurs because we as humans have a predisposition to see patterns in randomness; we see streakiness even though shooting data are essentially random.

The entrepreneur needs to mitigate as many of the hurdles in front of her as possible in order to make her startup a success and can not afford to be a victim of her own predispositions.

We also have this nasty predisposition to speak and do based on what we feel in the moment.

In a region known for its predisposition to philanthropy at an individual, corporate and government level, its not hard to find numerous examples of community support through financial aid.

«Veterans and military spouses have a predisposition to serve, whether they're still in active duty or they've transitioned into the civilian world,» he said.

When you've got this mandate in your head that you're going to start writing checks, there's a predisposition to confirmation bias.

The idiotic clamoring of the unrighteous revelers in atheistic cynicisms are tyrannical perverts of predispositions posting their crap to make follies of those religious fruit loops who can't even rightly divide the word of truth into being parables and fiction and historical!

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

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There is pretty reasonable evidence and reason to think that people may be born with a genetic predisposition to believe in the supernatural.

Those who are by strong predisposition morally evil «are moved in vain by compunction to righteousness, just as, for the most part, good are tempted to sin without harm.

4) Even if homosexuals have a predisposition, it is not the predisposition that is sinful, it is the giving in to it (i.e. alcoholics).

(Some of us believe in abstinence as the Biblical standard, but even for those who don't, the predisposition isn't the sin - it is the act.)

So... I think, as with most studies, the findings are somewhat biased in favor of the researchers predisposition.

Let us then provisionally define religion as the totality of an individual's sincere attitudes and predispositions toward that which serves as the final expression of that individual's particular primary interest or goal — which in fact is very much the same as saying, with Whitehead: «Religion is what the individual does with his [or her] own solitariness» (TIM 16).

Our predisposition of faith should allow us to let the text speak normatively in our lives.

Often we do not recognize the predispositions already present in the origins until their final consequences have been drawn.

Whether biological or social, whether innate or environmental, we begin our morally responsible life with a specific inheritance and a predisposition toward behaving in specific ways.

An Augustinian, in contrast, might see such scientific research as partially demonstrating what most Christians have assumed all along: that we emerge from our mother's womb with a self - orientation that makes loving God and loving neighbor contradictory to our innate predisposition.

But the point is, as Sherry acknowledges, that both Vivien and her religion offered Greene an anchor, a way to channel energy and excitement, an excuse for hope in the face of a congenital predisposition to despair.

is a story of humankind's predisposition towards cruelty and chaos, and also of the ability for common people to find compassion, friendship and faith in the most difficult of circumstances.

«Irregardless of our genetic background, and predispositions, the choices we make in the bedroom are behaviors and not inherent characteristics like skin color, and gender.»

Citing the story of the empty tomb, for example, Newbigin says that the reigning plausibility structures of the West turn around the account by explaining it as visions created in the minds of the disciples because of their predisposition to believe, whereas the Christian tradition would prefer to see it as «a boundary event» that brought the disciples to a new way of seeing and thinking.

To proclaim certain moral norms to be universal — whether because they are rooted in the psychological predispositions of the human person, the anthropological constitution of all human civilizations, or the social contract of a human community — means that these norms are not controversial and will not be contested.

We must relate to each other from within the context of our cultural, social and sexual predispositions and in so doing accept our limited perspective rather than believe that we have the universal blueprint for what it means to be human.

All those who have an interest in the electronic church, whatever their ideological predispositions toward it might be, would be well advised to give a high priority to the gathering of systematic data about the phenomenon.

It is important to me that we eat this way since my father in law died several years ago from cancer I worry about my husband's genetic predisposition.

Italians have so much gluten in their life that they have one of the highest incidences of Celiac Disease (the more and more exposed you are to gluten, the more likely to develop Celiac if you have the predisposition).

I knew Eric's family were a talented bunch with a predisposition towards adrenalin charged activities but I had no idea what was in store for me that day!

Leading academics explore emotional overeating habits in children, and whether this behaviour is shaped by genetic predisposition or environmental influences.

When athletes are put through inappropriate plyometric programs, or do a lot of jumping and change of directions in their sports, they have somewhat of an injury predisposition.