SEARCH RESULTS   Found 25 text references: 1. " We are likely to object to such definitions as arbitrary if they do not fit with our intuitive understandings of the term or the subject matter." Source:   Gerring, John. "What Makes a Concept Good? A Criterial Framework for Understanding Concept Formation in the Social Sciences" Polity 31.3 Mar. 22 1999: 357 2. "..+ [b.sub.2]In[POP.sub.t] whereas the following variable definitions are employed and expressed in natural logs: THE = the per capita real health care expenditure, HPI = the health care price index, ID = the income distribution as expressed by the ratio of nominal wages..." Source:   KARATZAS, GEORGE. "On the determination of the US aggregate health care expenditure" Applied Economics 32.9 July 15 2000: 1085 3. " The ratio form reflects both the definition of a steady state in terms of constant growth rates for aggregate real and nominal variables of the model (with constant inflation), and the practical expression of the Masstricht Treaty's fiscal requirements." Source:   Church, Keith B.,Sault, Joanne E.,Sgherri, Silvia,Wallis, Kenneth F. "COMPARATIVE PROPERTIES OF MODELS OF THE UK ECONOMY" National Institute Economic Review Jan. 1 2000: 106 4. "... GNP but not in real GNP, according to the definition implied by our Assertion 3. An increase in nominal GNP with real GNP constant, can in the framework of national income accounting only be interpreted as inflation." Source:   Rakowski, James R. "Coping with a paradoxical theorem in macroeconomics, report on a survey" American Economist 43.1 Mar. 22 1999: 52-57 5. " This operational definition of scholarship includes a somewhat arbitrary distinction of when a particular project is sufficiently evolved to be identifiable--a point of contention in most definitions of process concepts." Source:   Mitchell, Murray. "Scholarship as Process" Journal of Teacher Education 50.4 Sept. 1 1999: 267 6. "... Yu and Dunn's arbitrary definition of acceptable power (i.e., at least 0.8 x the maximum mean power for any of the tests within a given condition) is problematic in that it allows for many low-power tests to be classified as acceptable." Source:   Silver, N. Clayton,Hittner, James B.,May, Kim. "Testing dependent correlations with nonoverlapping variables: a Monte Carlo simulation" Journal of Experimental Education 73.1 Sept. 22 2004: 53-70 7. " The available data and the arbitrary definitions we had to use, in light of the absence of precise scientific data on P. jirovecii infection, are limitations of our study." Source:   Rabodonirina, Meja,Vanhems, Philippe,Couray-Targe, Sandrine,Gillibert, Rene-Pierre,Ganne, Christell,Nizard, Nathalie,Colin, Cyrille,Fabry, Jacques,Touraine, Jean-Louis,van Melle, Guy,Nahimana, Aimable,Francioli, Patrick,Hauser, Philippe M. "Molecular evidence of interhuman transmission of Pneumocystis pneumonia among renal transplant recipients hospitalized with HIV-infected patients" Emerging Infectious Diseases 10.10 Oct. 1 2004: 1766-1774 8. " This is the power of strangeness -- the freedom from arbitrary definition and identification." Source:   Sennett, Richard. "Cities without care or connection" New Statesman (1996) 129.4489 June 5 2000: 25 9. " Standardized (1964+): AL, CA, FN, FR, GE, IT, JP, NW, SP, SW, UK, US. Standardized (1966+): AU, NL. Commonly-used definitions (1969+): IR. [W.sub.t] : Nominal wage rate." Source:   TAHERI, JAVID. "On the alternative explanations of persistence of unemployment in the OECD countries" Applied Economics 32.8 June 20 2000: 1051 10. " Although precise definitions of CNLD are arbitrary and do not necessarily reflect the graduated severity of early respiratory dysfunction, the survival rate of 96% (23/24 infants) to a minimum corrected age of 2 years is encouraging." Source:   Fitzgerald, Dominic A.,Mesiano, Giulia,Brosseau, Lyne,Davis, G. Michael. "Pulmonary Outcome in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants" Pediatrics 105.6 June 1 2000: 1209 11. " One can analyze legal definitions of family as well as nominal or theoretical definitions." Source:   LEVIN, IRENE,TROST, JAN. "Step Family as Dyads - Direct and Indirect Relationships" Journal of Comparative Family Studies 31.2 Mar. 22 2000: 137 12. " An alternative definition might be that 'the difference between two (or more) series should become arbitrarily small as time elapses' (HALL et al., 1992)." Source:   O'DONOGHUE, DAN. "Some Evidence for the Convergence of Employment Structures in the British Urban System from 1978 to 1991" Regional Studies 34.2 Apr. 1 2000: 159 13. " Although these definitions were somewhat arbitrary, we confirmed that our results were not a function of the precise categories chosen by repeating the analyses with different combinations of categories to represent different timing of AR...." Source:   Dorosty, Ahmad R.,Emmett, Pauline M.,Cowin, Imogen S.,Reilly, John J. "Factors Associated With Early Adiposity Rebound" Pediatrics 105.5 May 1 2000: 1115 14. "... is generally considered to be 37.0 [degrees] C (98.6 [degrees] F) with a circadian variation of between 0.5 to 1.0 [degrees] C.[2,14] The definition of fever is arbitrary and depends on the purpose for which it is defined." Source:   Marik, Paul E. "Fever in the ICU" Chest 117.3 Mar. 1 2000: 855 15. " The total length of the estuary is [tilde]24 km, with the oligohaline zone nominally occupying the initial 5 km. Our definition of the oligohaline zone or upper estuary is based upon considerations such as salinity distribution and species composition." Source:   HOLMES, ROBERT M.,PETERSON, BRUCE J.,DEEGAN, LINDA A.,HUGHES, JEFFREY E.,FRY, BRIAN. "NITROGEN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY IN THE OLIGOHALINE ZONE OF A NEW ENGLAND ESTUARY" Ecology 81.2 Feb. 1 2000: 416 16. " First, psychological maturation can continue far beyond our arbitrary, culture-bound definitions of normality." Source:   Zimberoff, Diane,Hartman, David. "Personal Transformation with Heart-Centered Therapies" Journal of Heart Centered Therapies 2.1 Mar. 22 1999: 3 17. " Blood pressure increases are now known to be continuous with cardiovascular damage compared with earlier emphases on the arbitrary definitions of normotension and hypertension (Black 1998)." Source:   STEVENSON, DAVID R. "Blood Pressure and Age in Cross-Cultural Perspective" Human Biology 71.4 Aug. 1 1999: 529 18. " Rather, they see the options in a single toolbox and want to choose what works best for them instead of being restricted by arbitrary definitions." Source:   . "AMERICANS MINGLING ALTERNATIVE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES.(Brief Articl" USA Today (Magazine) 127.2645 Feb. 1 1999: 15-16 19. " On the one hand, he argues that any narrow definition of the knowledge required for ethics expertise is arbitrarily exclusive." Source:   YODER, SCOT D. "The Nature of Ethical Expertise" Hastings Center Report 28.6 Nov. 1 1998: 11-12 20. " We get very little definition of exactly what "Indian music" is, and Farrell's choices of what to include often seem quite arbitrary." Source:   Ruckert, George. "Indian Music and the West" Notes 55.2 Dec. 1 1998: 376-378 21. "... in the sense that there are no exchange media with their nominal value fixed in terms of this unit (which, incidentally, is quite different from Patinkin's definition of "abstract unit of account")." Source:   Boianovsky, Mauro. "Real balances, the price level and the unit of account: from Wicksell to Patinkin and beyond.(impact of Knut Wicksell's book on value of money on Don Patinkin's" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 57.4 Oct. 1 1998: 579-582 22. "... for those processes and treated preventively when deficiencies are found; the federal aptitude-treatment discrepancy definition for learning disability requires that students cannot be served until they fail long enough to achieve an arbitrarily defined large discrepancy." Source:   Berninger, Virginia W. "DYSLEXIA THE INVISIBLE, TREATABLE DISORDER: THE STORY OF EINSTEIN'S NINJA TURTLES" Learning Disability Quarterly 23.3 June 22 2000: 175 23. " B. Hendricks: This also embraces the arbitrary definition of what is and what isn't the performance." Source:   Kaplan, Janet A.,Hendricks, Bracken,Hendricks, Geoffrey,Higgins, Hannah,Knowles, Alison. "Flux Generations" Art Journal 59.2 June 22 2000: 7 24. "... because seeking, by definition, is an activity of intentional consciousness, while the real mystical event is never reducible to an object of human intentionality." Source:   FROHLICH, MARY. "DESOLATION AND DOCTRINE IN THERESE OF LISIEUX" Theological Studies 61.2 June 1 2000: 261 25. " Another logical problem with definition C concerns whether the distinction between fixed and variable costs is as clear in the real world as in textbooks? (2) The answer is, "YES," under definition..." Source:   Wang, X. Henry,Yang, Bill Z. "On the treatment of fixed and sunk costs in principles textbooks: a comment and a reply" Journal of Economic Education 35.4 Sept. 22 2004: 365-370 back to top