Among the most successful of these was Batman: Arkham Asylum ( 2009 ), which was released by Rocksteady Studios to critical acclaim ; review aggregator Metacritic reports it as having received 92 % positive reviews.

A subsequent review of these tests by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel points out that while " the negative results decrease the probability that the Cry9C protein is the cause of allergic symptoms in the individuals examined ... in the absence of a positive control and questions regarding the sensitivity and specificity of the assay, it is not possible to assign a negative predictive value to this "

If a " positive list " approach were taken, only species evaluated and approved for the positive list would be permitted in trade, thus lightening the review burden for member states and the Secretariat, and also preventing inadvertent legal trade threats to poorly known species.

A proper summary of the experimental evidence on clairvoyance should include a summary of all experiments that were conducted, taking into account their probabilities of turning out false positive and false negative results, and making sure that studies are not included in the review selectively.

A 2001 review of 160 Cochrane systematic reviews ( excluding complementary treatments ) in the 1998 database revealed that, according to two readers, 41. 3 % concluded positive or possibly positive effect, 20 % concluded evidence of no effect, 8. 1 % concluded net harmful effects, and 21. 3 % of the reviews concluded insufficient evidence.

A review of 145 alternative medicine Cochrane reviews using the 2004 database revealed that 38. 4 % concluded positive effect or possibly positive ( 12. 4 %) effect, 4. 8 % concluded no effect, 0. 69 % concluded harmful effect, and 56. 6 % concluded insufficient evidence.

The film was positively received by critics as review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes evaluates that 86 % of critics have given the film a positive review, based on 28 reviews, with an average score of 7. 7 / 10.

Based on 39 reviews collected by the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 90 % of critics gave Show Me Love a positive review.

The Franchise Association originally supported the positive regulation of the franchise sector but its eventual submission to the review was in favour of the status quo – self-regulation.

The New York Times did not review the film upon release, but film critic Howard Thompson gave it a positive review on a re-release at a children's matinee with the Bugs Bunny short, Napoleon Bunny-Part, in December 1970.

New York Times film critic Vincent Canby, who a decade before had given a negative review to Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, gave Godzilla vs. Megalon a generally positive review.

This review score was later corrected to 9 out of 10 in a subsequent issue to reflect the very positive nature of the original review.

William Roberts's review, for the August 1816 British Review, was more positive than previous analysis but with no detail about the work: " passing over the two other poems which are bound together with ' Christabel ', called ' The Fragment of Kubla Khan ', and ' The Pains of Sleep '; in which, however, there are some playful thoughts and fanciful imagery, which we would gladly have extracted if our room would have allowed it.

Retrospective reviews of the game have been positive with perfect scores given by review sites including Thunderbolt and HonestGamers.

" A review of 498 studies published in peer-reviewed journals concluded that a large majority of these studies showed a positive correlation between religious commitment and higher levels of perceived well-being and self-esteem, and lower levels of hypertension, depression and clinical delinquency.

Based on 42 reviews published since 2000, the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90 % of critics gave it a positive review, with an average score of 7. 6 out of 10.

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For a given material, it can have a positive or negative sign or exceptionally it can be zero, and this can depend on the temperature, as it does for water about 4 C. The concept of latent heat with respect to volume was perhaps first recognized by Joseph Black in 1762.

) By convention, a positive evaluation favors White, and a negative evaluation favors Black.

In 2005, Simple Minds released their fourteenth studio album, Black & White 050505, which generated some of the most positive reviews for a Simple Minds record in many years.

This album was released to a very positive reception, and featured notable songs " The Kiss of Judas ", " Black Diamond " and the title track " Visions ( Southern Cross )", a 10-minute epic that was their longest song at the time.

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::"... Friis and Jensen had made the same distinction Black used between ' positive feed-back ' and ' negative feed-back ', based not on the sign of the feedback itself but rather on its effect on the amplifier ’ s gain.

Her follow-up in 1992, Black Pearl was well received by critics, partly because of its focus on positive messages and uplifting themes that contrasted the popular gangsta rap style.

Black women find themselves involved in a lifelong effort to self-define in a culture that provides them no positive reflection.

In 1987, he garned positive reviews for his portrayal of Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale in the HBO television movie Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8.

He recommended adoption of a positive approach which would convert Black Friday and Black Saturday to Big Friday and Big Saturday.

In essence, these stem from the belief in both White Magic and Black Magic, where the former is seen to be beneficial and seeks to bring about positive outcomes, and the latter being essentially malicious, sinister, and all-around evil ( sometimes also called witchcraft ).

Special films and development processes have been devised such that positive images can be created directly from film ; these are called positive, or slide, or ( perhaps confusingly ) reversal film ( see Transparency, Black and white reversal film, E-6 process ).

The Congressional Black Caucus is one of the world's most esteemed bodies, with a history of positive activism unparalleled in our nation's history.

He was featured in a chapter of Armond White ’ s book on the pop revolution and was a recipient of the Black Achievement Award for the positive portrayal of African Americans in mass media.

Black Cat, White Cat received a positive response from critics, garnering an 89 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews with an average score of 7 / 10.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas refers to the film as " raucous, knockabout comedy, a paean to love, freedom and friendship " in his positive review, before concluding that despite it being two hours and nine minutes long (" an awfully long running time for a comedy "), Black Cat, White Cat " gets away with it better than most over-long movies due to its beguiling rambling shaggy dog-story quality ".

In a smugly positive review, the Village Voices J. Hoberman refers to the film as " bravura moviemaking by any objective standard " and a " vehicle for the director's lowdown magic-realist fantasies about Romany gangsters, which has a velocity that belies its jerry-built mise-en-scène " concluding that " Black Cat, White Cat is determined to twist every character into an ideogram for vulgar humanity " while wondering if " these gypsies are a screen on which the Bosnian-born director can project his own feelings of ostracism and homelessness ".

In a positive review titled "` Black Cat ' Pokes Fun at Slovenian Mobsters " he goes on to praise the film's characters who " whether freakish or treacherous, come up wonderfully human "

Communist journalist Daniel Singer has also criticized the Black Book for discussing the faults of communist states while ignoring their positive achievements ; he says that " if you look at Communism as merely the story of crimes, terror and repression, to borrow the subtitle of the Black Book, you are missing the point.

Square Enix Music Online was even more positive in its review of the album, calling it " a masterpiece " and " The Black Mages ' finest effort to date ", wishing only the album had been longer.

" Viennese society had, since the days of Austria's eclipse at Sadowa, sought to conceal the injured patriotic emotions born of that disaster by affecting a hysterical sort of gaiety which was somewhat foreign to the real character of the people ... like all forced characteristics, the new-found frivility of the Viennese degenerated quickly into a positive mania for wickedness, without, at the same time, taking on any of the picturesque artistry which conceals-and often condones-the refined viciousness of Parisians ... who, also, after 1870, went through for many years a phase of social madness similar to that which affected Austria ... Viennese society was probably the most dissipated in Europe, and so became a happy mart for ladies of that type that serves the foibles of a prince.

Limited possibilities have been explored by artists as an outlet to artistic expression, and has been cultivated to become a positive style and tradition, emphasizing the decorative function of art, or its religious functions via non-representational forms such as Geometric patterns, floral patterns, and arabesques.

Counseling aimed toward encouraging individuals to design ambitious goals and work toward them, with recognition that there are external factors that may impact, often results in the incorporation of a more positive achievement style by students and employees, whatever the setting, to include higher education, workplace, or justice programming.

Despite generally positive reviews, criticism induced Jansson to refine her style such that in her 1955 solo exhibition her style had become less overloaded in terms of detail and content.

This includes cognitive or neurocognitive factors, such as the way a person perceives, thinks or feels about certain things ; or an individual's overall personality, temperament or coping style or the extent of protective factors or " positive illusions " such as optimism, personal control and a sense of meaning.

He was apprehensive about how this breach of the rules would be received at the Académie, but their response to Don Procopio was initially positive, with praise for the composer's " easy and brilliant touch " and " youthful and bold style.

Despite this positive reaction from readers, for decades literary critics dismissed the style found in Uncle Tom's Cabin and other sentimental novels because these books were written by women and so prominently featured " women's sloppy emotions.

At the early stages, the project received positive feedback from other LucasArts employees but according to Tiller, it eventually fell apart because of disagreements on the game style between the productive team and " a particularly influential person " within the management, which lead to a series of " mistakes ".

The groups sound is known to flow back and forth between ambient, experimental, major, positive melodies to aggressive, technical, heavy metal influenced single-note progressions with the vocals holding the same contrast between multi-voice harmonies and soulful falsettos to explosive, powerful, melodic shouting all being led by a distinct and unique, jazz influenced drumming style.

" While the Kabbalah story arc, and the positive explanations of Moore's philosophy, very explicitly explain, talking-head style, the symbolism behind the details of every plane of existence, Promethea also contains critiques of materialism which are much more subtle.

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This style of music received a positive reaction from audiences, leading the band to switch genres, performing at hundreds of weddings and dances between 1974 and 1980.

His prose work is much more abundant, not less remarkable for care as to style and expression, and of greater positive value.

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Despite many positive responses, it also received some negative criticism with Rolling Stone criticizing Vaughan's originality and claiming that he didn't possess a distinctive style.

Influential film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, but was measured in his praise :" If you are attentive to the style, if you think about what Wong is doing, Chungking Express works.

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Most reviews were highly positive, although reviewers complained that the game was too difficult and that the game suffered from a focus on style over substance.

Reception to the book was mostly positive, with critics applauding its style, ambition, and riskiness ; the New York Times described it as " the stuff of several books crammed into one long, dense narrative about contemporary urban America ".

At Crispus Attucks, Robertson's coach was Ray Crowe, whose emphasis on a fundamentally sound game had a positive effect on Robertson's style of play.

While there was some positive reaction to her work, even in the new ' French ' style, Carr perceived Vancouver's reaction to her work and new style was not positive enough to support her career, and she recounted as much in her book Growing Pains.