In statistics, the term central tendency relates to the way in which quantitative data tend to cluster around some value.

Galgos have a very reserved personality and they have a tendency towards shyness, so it is very important that they be socialized early in life so that they grow up to be comfortable around strange people, dogs and locations.

These engines were often referred to by mechanics as " shakers ", due to the tendency of the engine to bounce around at idle speed.

Since crayfish are accustomed to being in ponds or rivers, they will have a tendency to shift gravel around on the bottom of the tank, creating mounds or trenches to emulate a burrow.

Their tendency to crawl into the nearest lap with or without invitation and to constantly hang around to see what people are up to, makes them excellent companions for home workers and those house bound due to illness or disability.

However the dates assigned to most of the early crosses surviving in good condition, whether at Ruthwell and Bewcastle, the Western Ossery group in Ireland, Iona or the Kildalton Cross on Islay, have all shown a tendency to converge on the period around or slightly before 800, despite the differences between the Northumbrian and Celtic types.

Distractibility refers to the child ’ s tendency to be sidetracked by other things going on around them.

Also, realizing that his fear of commitment ( a result of his fear of death of those around him ) and his tendency to act on emotion are responsible for his continuing desires to pursue new women, Rob makes a symbolic commitment to Laura.

Their curiosity for the world around them gives them a " leap before you look " tendency.

Nagel's rationalism and tendency to present our human nature as a composite, structured around our capacity to reason, explains why he thinks therapeutic or deflationary accounts of philosophy are simply complacent and radical skepticism is, strictly speaking, irrefutable.

The Militant tendency, originally the Revolutionary Socialist League, was a Trotskyist entryist group within the British Labour Party based around the Militant newspaper which was first published in 1964.

To their Waspishness should be added the tendency to be located on the eastern seaboard or around San Francisco, to be prep school and Ivy League educated, and to be possessed of inherited wealth.

Many Markov chain Monte Carlo methods move around the equilibrium distribution in relatively small steps, with no tendency for the steps to proceed in the same direction.

The Law of Jante describes how, in a society with an egalitarianist tendency, an individual who does not have an earnest adherence to the group will need to " translate " the implicit, dynamic, group-regulated behaviour into explicit rules and principles in order to navigate around the community.

There is a tendency for auroras to occur around the March / April, September / October equinox periods, when the geomagnetic field is at right angle to Sun for efficient charged particle coupling.

A related syndrome described by the French neurologist François Lhermitte involves the release through disinhibition of a tendency to compulsively utilize objects that present themselves in the surrounding environment around the patient ( Lhermitte 1983 ; Lhermitte et al.

This tendency became so radical that in 1888, Carlos VII had to expel the group centered around Ramón Nocedal, Cándido's son, which thus gave rise to another small, but in clerical circles influential, Integrist Party.

The Federation was founded as the Anarchist Communist Federation in March 1986 by the Anarchist Communist Discussion Group, which had coalesced around two anarcho-communists who had returned from France and began selling the pamphlets of the defunct Libertarian Communist Group tendency, and members of Syndicalist Fight.

The Socialist Party was formerly the Militant tendency of the Labour Party, grouped around the Militant newspaper, which was founded in 1964 and described itself as the " Marxist voice of Labour and Youth ".

Formicines retain some primitive features such as the presence of cocoons around pupae, the presence of ocelli in workers, and little tendency toward reduction of palp or antennal segmentation in most species, except subterranean groups.

" During the performance he stated that " You can tell is not something we had a burning desire to do, but we did it because we love Touch and Go we love Corey Rusk [...] When history talks about rock music it has a tendency to skip from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana, something started in the 1980s and you're seeing the evidence of it all around you ", remarking that the label was " the best thing to happen to music in my lifetime, and we did this to say thanks ".

Tensions over this " workerist " tendency came to a head within the RCP in 1977 around whether China remained a communist country after the death of Mao Zedong and subsequent leadership struggles in the People's Republic of China between the Gang of Four and Hua Guofeng.

During this process, PCdoB ranged from an approach that pointed to the class struggle as responsible for the fundamental changes that occurred in the Soviet regime, while on the other hand, it showed a economistic tendency, placing the problems of socialism around the development of productive forces.

This can be contrasted with the tendency of an aircraft with positive stability, which, when trimmed to fly at a certain attitude, will continue to do so in the absence of control input, and will oscillate in simple harmonic motion on a decreasing scale around the trimmed attitude, eventually returning to its trimmed attitude.

People have a tendency to rely on information that is easily accessible in the world around them.

The recent development in computational flood modelling has enabled engineers to step away from the tried and tested " hold or break " approach and its tendency to promote overly engineered structures.

The British were the first to see the tendency of wines from Champagne to sparkle as a desirable trait and tried to understand why it produced bubbles.

Charles represented a growing nationalist tendency among the Swedish aristocracy which tried first to subjugate the other Scandinavian countries under Sweden but soon focussed on dissolving the Kalmar Union.

However, this gave him a tendency to emotionally blackmail Rodney with the memories of their mother, often trying to manipulate him with the line " Mum said to me on her death bed ..." He also tried to interfere with his brother's personal life, much to the latter's annoyance.

I have tried to contribute to the recuperation of the dignity of the Indians, that dignity that since the arrival of the Spaniards has been denied to them ; in effect, for five hundred years there has been an open tendency to malign and try to ignore the millenary experience of the population of a whole continent.

It was said that Li was honest and frugal, and after he became chancellor, he, with some success, tried to curb the tendency for officials to seek promotions by bribes or ingratiations.

Cantilever walls resist lateral pressures by friction at the base of the wall and / or passive earth pressure, the tendency of the soil to resist lateral movement.

Anarcho-pacifism is a tendency within the anarchist movement which rejects the use of violence in the struggle for social change.

Platformism is a tendency within the wider anarchist movement based on the organisational theories in the tradition of Dielo Truda's Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists ( Draft ).

This tendency toward devaluation of art has led many to claim that Dada was an essentially nihilistic movement.

Undoubtedly, due to the great success of the exhibition, Cubism became recognized as a tendency, genre or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal: a new avant-garde movement.

In the 1990s, a tendency was noted among psychiatrists to characterize and to regard the anti-psychiatric movement as part of the past, and to view its ideological history as flirtation with the polemics of radical politics at the expense of scientific thought and enquiry.

Under the leadership of CPC and Mao Zedong, a parallel international communist movement emerged to rival that of the Soviets, although it was never as formalized and homogeneous as the pro-Soviet tendency.

Situationist theory first emerged as a smaller tendency within Lettrism, an artistic and literary movement led by the Romanian-born French poet and visual artist Isidore Isou, originating in 1940s Paris.

Meanwhile, Tony Judt, while praising Hobsbawm's vast knowledge and graceful prose, cautioned that Hobsbawm's bias in favour of the USSR, communist states and communism in general, and his tendency to disparage any nationalist movement as passing and irrational, weakened his grasp of parts of the 20th century.

* A juxtaposition of forward movement with a sense of distance, as opposed to Expressionism's tendency to foreshorten the subject.

In this French usage, reactionary denotes " a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state " and a " return to a previous condition of affairs.

However, while EMH predicts that all price movement ( in the absence of change in fundamental information ) is random ( i. e., non-trending ), many studies have shown a marked tendency for the stock markets to trend over time periods of weeks or longer and that, moreover, there is a positive correlation between degree of trending and length of time period

Anarcho-pacifism ( also pacifist anarchism or anarchist pacifism ) is a tendency within the anarchist movement which rejects the use of violence in the struggle for social change.

Said Russell: " We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our ( Southern ) states.

An article on the categorization of new religious movements in U. S. print media published by The Association for the Sociology of Religion ( formerly the American Catholic Sociological Society ), criticizes the print media for failing to recognize social-scientific efforts in the area of new religious movements, and its tendency to use popular or anti-cultist definitions rather than social-scientific insight, and asserts that " The failure of the print media to recognize social-scientific efforts in the area of religious movement organizations impels us to add yet another failing mark to the media report card Weiss ( 1985 ) has constructed to assess the media's reporting of the social sciences.

In Statism and Anarchy, Mikhail Bakunin identified a " statist " tendency within the socialist movement and contrasted it with anarchist socialism, arguing that Karl Marx's theory of transition from capitalism to socialism in which the working class seized state power in a Dictatorship of the proletariat would eventually lead to a usurpation of power by the state apparatus acting in its own self-interest.

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, ( usually a few months, years or decades ) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.

The piece has a relatively simple large-scale dynamic shape: the outer movements are written for large ensembles, the second and fourth movements for smaller groups, and the third movement is for a group of just ten instrumentalists and the soprano, meaning the overall tendency is that the piece starts and ends loudly, becoming quieter in the middle.

This tendency is emphasised by the opening of the first movement — a loud sound which immediately becomes quiet ; and the closing of the last — a rapid crescendo.

* Art movement, a tendency or style in art followed by a group of artists

The movement focuses attention on the information needs and the reading abilities of the reader and opposes writer-based prose, which is the tendency to use long sentences, jargon, and a formal style as a way to acquire authority, power, and credibility.

The term refers less to a particular movement than an artistic tendency.

Why the tendency is critical is for that the claim simultaneously opens the possibility to directly access to the constitution by those who have not direct legal interest so that the possible vain claim could be readily abused by some political movement ( s ) which is not regarded as normal work ( s ) of any law system.

The movement, which was started about the same time by the ennobled peasant, Tudor Vladimirescu, for the emancipation of the lower classes, soon acquired, therefore, an anti-Greek tendency.