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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"preponderance"”.
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Friction Ridge Dysplasia and Its Preponderance in the Afghanistan Population
… The study sought to determine whether the preponderance of Friction Ridge Dysplasia is consistent between the Afghanistan and United States populations. The study indicated that Friction Ridge Dysplasia is dependent on country; however, the disease is independent of handedness.</p>
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Use of Preponderance of Evidence in Campus Adjudication of Sexual Misconduct
… Office for Civil Rights mandated the use of preponderance of evidence in all sexual misconduct cases (Ali, 2011). The change to utilize a low burden of proof, preponderance of evidence, was and is controversial. Despite a large literature base of legal opinions on the use of preponderance of …
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Mediating effect of masculinity and femininity on the female preponderance in depression
… amount of research has attempted to address this preponderance. One area that warrants further investigation is the role that gender, a social construct that, in part, refers to the degree to which one enacts traditionally masculine and/or feminine traits, may play in mediating the relationship …
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Targeted re-sequencing of a large South African cardiomyopathy cohort
… a mean age of 35.6 years at diagnosis, and a 56% preponderance of females were seen; the dominant populations recruited were Black-African (58%) and Mixed ancestry (33%). We reported a diagnostic yield of 16.9% (76/450) for the DCM probands, where 68.4% of the probands had pathogenic TTN …
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Sources of training and professional development for academic acquisitions librarians
… the past several years there appears to be a preponderance of opinion among acquisitions librarians that more formalized library school training is needed. A survey of acquisitions librarians employed in ARL-member libraries was used to determine where contemporary training for acquisitions …
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Investigation of an atypical protoporphyric family in South Africa
… by more prevalent hepatic complications, a preponderance of protoporphyrin in its zinc chelated form, a therapeutic response to iron supplementation, and an absence of mutations in the ferrochelatase gene or haplotype markers associated with erythropoietic protoporphyria. We have reviewed …
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Failure to adapt; Intelligence Failure and Military Failure as Functions of Strategic Failure?
… to the Intelligence Community yields a preponderance of causal evidence. Secondly, it is suggested that a parallel set of underlying assumptions evident in adaptation failure theory may be observed in military failures as well. This leads to the final analysis, which tends to suggest …
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"Contesting Islam: ""Homegrown Wahhabism,"" Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005"
… Africa, including northern Ghana based on the preponderance of the ""returnee"" ulama and their control over and improvement of the pedagogy of what has become the reformed makaranta is over generalized. For the ""returnees,"" theirs is and continue to be the struggle for survival in the post …
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Essays in empirical law and economics
… facts previously decided by judges using a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard. The limited holding of Apprendi and the calculations required by the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines allow me to compare changes in the sentence lengths of groups of offenders who were differentially affected by …
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Good to great: a framework for improving instruction In a ninth grade academy
… not statistically significant, allows for the preponderance of inferences and is significant and germane to female urban school administrators.
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The impact of early life adversity on later life health
<p>The preponderance of the literature on early life adversity suggests that adversity has negative effects on later life health; however, an emerging body of literature suggests that early life adversity may develop a sense of resilience in individuals. Drawing from life course perspective, the …
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Female Airline Transport Pilots: The Role of Mentoring
… needs and activities are less certain, but the preponderance of evidence supports the assertion that those female ATP who reported an informal mentoring relationship were more satisfied in these areas than their formal mentor counterparts.</p>
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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE REVISED CHILDREN’S MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE, SECOND EDITION (RCMAS-2) PERFORMANCE ANXIETY CLUSTER
… for the Performance Anxiety cluster. The preponderance of the evidence from CFA and reliability methods suggested bias did not exist across gender and age groups. Latent means comparisons showed that females and older students reported higher levels of performance anxiety in comparison to …
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Institutional and Structural Evolution of the U.S. Financial System 1945-2023: The Long-Wave Financial Cycle and the Role of Thwarting Mechanisms
… financial system. This evolution results in a preponderance of financial activity undertaken outside the regulatory umbrella while margins-of-safety are eroded, newly innovated financial assets proliferate, and financial intermediaries become more interconnected. The framework generates …
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System regularities in design of experiments and their applications
… be statistically significant. It is shown that a preponderance of active two-factor interaction effects are synergistic, meaning that when main effects are used to increase the system response, the interactions provide an additional increase and that when main effects are used to decrease the …
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Longitudinal relations between parenting and child big five personality traits
… Results from cross lagged models showed a preponderance of insignificant relations between parenting and child personality. A different approach to interpreting the results is to focus on the magnitudes of the associations rather than their statistical significance. In this light, I found …
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Mindfulness and Cancer : a literature review and empirical study
… benefits to cancer patients but concludes that a preponderance of uncontrolled studies has led to prematurely strong conclusions in the literature. Finally, the paper suggests some implications of the review for clinicians, purchasers and researchers.
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Sexual dimorphism, resource partitioning and intraspecific aggression in Caprella californica Stimpson
… of the eel grass associated fishes. There is a preponderance of females in the population as well as a size-specific distribution of the proportion of the sexes.</p>
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