The defensiveness has been exaggerated by another bad habit, our tendency to rate the `` goodness '' or `` badness '' of other nations by the extent to which they applaud the slogans we circulate about ourselves.

This caution has been particularly noticeable in a tendency of retailers and distributors to shift the inventory burden back on the supplier, and the fact stocks at retail are low in many lines has escaped attention because of the presence of higher stocks at the manufacturing level.

There has been a tendency on the part of many American linguists to assume that a phonemic transcription will automatically be the best possible orthography and that the only real problem will then be the social one of securing acceptance.

Lime white, hard and brilliant, has a tendency to `` jump '' away from the other colors in drying, and also by its capacity to set, to preclude the use of ready-made gradations, so useful in decorative work.

Reprisals are not unheard of in such situations, but the recent tendency has been for the Congress to forgive its prodigal sons.

The arithmetic mean has several properties that make it useful, especially as a measure of central tendency.

The stronger of two acids will have a higher K < sub > a </ sub > than the weaker acid ; the ratio of hydrogen ions to acid will be higher for the stronger acid as the stronger acid has a greater tendency to lose its proton.

It may be the case that increased worldwide communication through radio, television, the Internet and globalization has reduced the tendency to regional variation.

* Economists use the term " global labor arbitrage " to refer to the tendency of manufacturing jobs to flow towards whichever country has the lowest wages per unit output at present and has reached the minimum requisite level of political and economic development to support industrialization.

The elbow of one has a mysterious tendency to become jammed in the jaws of the other.

It generally has been influenced by Vietnamese for three centuries and accordingly displays a pronounced accent, tendency toward monosyllablic words and lexical differences from the standard.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

In practical statistical analysis, the terms are often used before one has chosen even a preliminary form of analysis: thus an initial objective might be to " choose an appropriate measure of central tendency ".

The decreasing cost of storage capacity and network bandwidth has a tendency to reduce the need for lossy codecs for some media.

If are independent and identically distributed random variables, each with a standard Cauchy distribution, then the sample mean has the same standard Cauchy distribution ( the sample median, which is not affected by extreme values, can be used as a measure of central tendency ).

Through cross-examinations, the TAT exhibits a tendency toward chauvinistic stimuli for its questions and has the “ potential for unfavorable clinical evaluation ” for women.

Whilst critical theorists usually are defined as Marxist intellectuals, their tendency to denounce Marxist concepts, and to synthesise Marxian analysis with other sociologic and philosophic traditions has been attacked as revisionism, by Classical, Orthodox, and Analytical Marxists, and by Marxist-Leninist philosophers.

# The organism has one basic tendency and striving-to actualize, maintain and enhance the experiencing organism.

The United States has had a tendency to be generous when granting diplomatic immunity to visiting diplomats, because a large number of U. S. diplomats work in host countries less protective of individual rights.

Guy Claxton has questioned the extent that learning styles such as VAK are helpful, particularly as they can have a tendency to label children and therefore restrict learning.

The force acts on the charged particles themselves, hence charge has a tendency to spread itself as evenly as possible over a conducting surface.

Based on the economic reforms, Georgian economy has been diversified showing an upward tendency with average 10 % of annual GDP real growth in 2004-2007 and reached the highest level – 12. 3 percent in 2007.

This metal has a strong tendency to supercool below its melting point / freezing point.

These asymmetric bonds mean a strand of DNA has a direction.

* DNA ligase I: ligates the nascent DNA of the lagging strand after the Ribonuclease H has removed the RNA primer from the Okazaki fragments.

Directionality has consequences in DNA synthesis, because DNA polymerase can synthesize DNA in only one direction by adding nucleotides to the 3 ' end of a DNA strand.

A strand of behavioral finance has been dubbed Quantitative Behavioral Finance, which uses mathematical and statistical methodology to understand behavioral biases in conjunction with valuation.

Epilation is the removal of the entire hair strand, including the part of the hair that has not yet left the follicle.

This, however, has not prevented Scott from making an important contribution to the noble-hero strand of the legend, too, because some subsequent motion picture treatments of the Robin Hood's adventures give Robin traits that are characteristic of Ivanhoe as well.

Unlike woven fabrics, where strands usually run straight horizontally and vertically, yarn that has been knitted follows a loopy path along its row, as with the red strand in the diagram at left, in which the loops of one row have all been pulled through the loops of the row below it.

A second strand of Kaplanian theology exists, which makes clear that God has ontological reality, a real and absolute existence independent of human beliefs, while rejecting classical theism and any belief in miracles.

However, the HIV-encoded reverse transcriptase has own ribonuclease activity that degrades the viral RNA during the synthesis of cDNA, as well as DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity that copies the sense cDNA strand into an antisense DNA to form a double-stranded DNA intermediate.

* Nicked open-circular DNA has one strand cut.

A graduated strand of pearls most often has at least 3 mm of differentiation from the ends to the center of the necklace.

The HIV reverse transcriptase also has ribonuclease activity that degrades the viral RNA during the synthesis of cDNA, as well as DNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity that copies the sense cDNA strand into an antisense DNA to form a double-stranded viral DNA intermediate ( vDNA ).

The main strand of domain centered research has been the research on color terminology, although this domain according to Lucy and admitted by color terminology researchers such as Paul Kay, is not optimal for studying linguistic relativity, because color perception, unlike other semantic domains, is known to be hard wired into the neural system and as such subject to more universal restrictions than other semantic domains.

Razor-wire has a central strand of high tensile strength wire, and a steel tape punched into a shape with barbs.

A simple DNA sequencer will have one or more lasers that emit at a wavelength that is absorbed by the fluorescent dye that has been attached to the DNA strand of interest.

In Ireland the series aired on RTÉ Two as part of their children's strand, The Den ( television ) ( now TRTÉ ), it has been repeated on and off since its first airing, generally at the weekends as part of TRTÉ's Disney Club strand of programming.

BBC One has traditionally been the home of children's television, Blue Peter had been broadcast on the channel prior to the Children's BBC strand, and sections such as Watch with Mother airing previously on the channel.

In particular, the number of Irish made programmes has increased, though some of this is made up of a new strand of early evening repeats.

The latest change has been a complete rebrand and relaunch of The Den, on Saturday 17 September 2005, with the id Two strand becoming TTV on the following Monday.

A design called a stem loop, consisting of a single strand of DNA which has a loop at an end, are a dynamic structure that opens and closes when a piece of DNA bonds to the loop part.

As of 2010, the company has an annual production capability of 4. 8 billion board feet of lumber, 270 million square board feet of plywood, and 1 billion square board feet of oriented strand board.

With regards to transcription, a sequence is on the coding strand if it has the same order as the transcribed RNA.

Asked about his views on the TRC, Coetzee has stated: " In a state with no official religion, the TRC was somewhat anomalous: a court of a certain kind based to a large degree on Christian teaching and on a strand of Christian teaching accepted in their hearts by only a tiny proportion of the citizenry.

Another strand of research has been to try and construct three-dimensional photonic structures from self-assembly – essentially allowing a mixture of dielectric nano-spheres to settle from solution into three-dimensionally periodic structures possessing photonic band-gaps.