Ambiguous words, equivocal sentence structures and negatives may cause misunderstanding, possibly invalidating questionnaire results.

Ambiguous situations may cause humans to affirm both a proposition and its negation.

Ambiguous titles such as environmentally friendly can be confusing without a specific definition ; some regulators are providing guidance.

In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.

The Voice has also announced fictional advertisements for the " Ambiguous Party ", a fictional political party.

Ambiguous words like these make it needful to learn the right context in which to use the different pronunciations and this raises the difficulty of learning to read English.

* The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia ( 1974 ) by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness ( the Hainish Cycle ).

Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858 – 1954 ( University of California Press ; 2010 ) 490 pages ; a history of French Indochina.

# Ambiguous illusions are pictures or objects that elicit a perceptual " switch " between the alternative interpretations.

Ambiguous reference to Elam ( Cuneiform ; NIM ) appear also in this period in Sumerian records.

* Jeffrey, Judith S. Ambiguous Commitments and Uncertain Policies: The Truman Doctrine in Greece, 1947 – 1952 ( 2000 ).

He wrote nothing better than the luminous Appendix to this work on Ambiguous Terms.

* Turk, Richard W. The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan ( 1987 ) online edition

Ambiguous, misleading, or poorly worded questions are par for the course.

Ambiguous promises of Allied support were made in exchange.

* 2010: Carly Wade, Denamite, Leska and Baker side project, Symbols from the Driveway, to release Ambiguous in January 2010.

A few campaign ads were created and aired for morning show listeners ' amusement in which The Voice tried to persuade listeners to vote for the Ambiguous Party.

Comparisons are made between the Ambiguous Party ( complete and utter fence-sitters on all issues ) and the current parties of the day.

* Ambiguous Middle Term, fallacyfiles. org

Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia ( 1976 ) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany.

Delany has said that Trouble on Triton was written partly in dialogue with Ursula K. Le Guin's anarchist science fiction novel The Dispossessed, whose subtitle was An Ambiguous Utopia.

Ambiguous Relations: The American Jewish Community and Germany since 1945.

Rangecroft L, Brain C, Creighton S, Di Ceglie D, Ogilvy-Stuart A, Malone P, Turnock R. Statement of the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons Working Party on the Surgical Management of Children Born with Ambiguous Genitalia.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

The extent of such interference -- which may be so slight as to be undetectable at any point where either of the stations renders a usable signal, or may be so great as to virtually destroy the service areas of both stations -- depends on many factors, among the principal ones being the distance between the stations, their respective radiated power, and, of particular significance here, the time of day.

Second, even if the characteristic polynomial factors completely over F into a product of polynomials of degree 1, there may not be enough characteristic vectors for T to span the space V.

The causes of retardation and maladjustment may be found in physical factors, such as defective speech or hearing, impaired vision, faulty motor coordination, a frail constitution, chronic disease, malnutrition, and glandular malfunctioning.

Unwholesome family relations, broken homes, and undesirable community influences may also be contributing factors.

This means that such factors as the health of the parents, particularly the mother, their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life, the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring.

While the personality factors that aggravate interfaith conflict may be perennial, nationalism is more variable.

Other factors that may inhibit metamorphosis include lack of food, lack of trace elements and competition from conspecifics.

insignificant factors may collapse into one with a few factors

For instance, a local society in the middle of a large city may have regular meetings with speakers, focusing less on observing the night sky if the membership is less able to observe due to factors such as light pollution.

Whereas a biotic stress would include such living disturbances as fungi or harmful insects, abiotic stress factors, or stressors, are naturally occurring, often intangible, factors such as intense sunlight or wind that may cause harm to the plants and animals in the area affected.

So, a taiga or boreal forest is at the mercy of whatever abiotic stress factors may come along, while tropical zones are much less susceptible to such stressors.

Research indicates these drugs may interact with transcription factors known as " clock genes ", which may play a role in the addictive properties of drugs ( drug abuse ), and possibly in obesity.

Extracellular signals may include toxins, hormones, growth factors, nitric oxide or cytokines, that must either cross the plasma membrane or transduce to effect a response.

Recent research has suggested that certain growth factors may work to locally alter bone formation by increasing osteoblast activity.

Essentially, bone growth factors may act as potential determinants of local bone formation.

Diet, exercise, smoking and other environmental factors may have also contributed to their disease.

Pathogenesis of goiter in the bongo may reflect a mixture of genetic predisposition coupled with environmental factors, including a period of exposure to a goitrogen.

This may only apply for type one, but type two apparently results from a large confluence of factors.

Evidence suggests that environmental factors play a significant role in the development and course of bipolar disorder, and that individual psychosocial variables may interact with genetic dispositions.

A goal of less than six months has been suggested, but due to factors such as dosage and type of benzodiazepine, reasons for prescription, lifestyle, personality, environmental stresses, and amount of available support, a year or more may be needed to withdraw.