I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

This tendency can be broken either by restoring hypothalamic excitability directly or via cortico-hypothalamic pathways.

The tendency to reciprocate can even generalize so people become more helpful toward others in general after being helped.

This tendency effected the narrowing field of artistic possibility to such forms of art as Arabesque, mosaic, Islamic calligraphy, and Islamic architecture, as well as any form of abstraction that can claim the status of non-representational art.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

There is a tendency to use the term in a less strict way, to mean approximately the same thing as " culture " and therefore, the term can more broadly refer to any important and clearly defined human society.

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 ).

Chemical affinity can also refer to the tendency of an atom or compound to combine by chemical reaction with atoms or compounds of unlike composition.

In a lecture on the current system of international communication Piron argued that " Esperanto relies entirely on innate reflexes " and " differs from all other languages in that you can always trust your natural tendency to generalize patterns ...

Alternatively, dualism can mean the tendency of humans to perceive and understand the world as being divided into two overarching categories.

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.

Euripides sometimes ' resolved ' the two syllables of the iamb (˘¯) into three syllables (˘˘˘) and this tendency increased so steadily over time that the number of resolved feet in a play can be understood to indicate the approximate date of composition ( see Extant plays below for one scholar's list of resolutions per hundred trimeters ).

While this applies immediately only to scalar-valued estimators, it can be extended to any measure of central tendency of a distribution: see median-unbiased estimators.

Fischbein and Schnarch therefore theorized that an individual's tendency to rely on the representativeness heuristic and other cognitive biases can be overcome with age.

In this sense, habitus can be understood as the physical and constitutional characteristics of an individual, especially as related to the tendency to develop a certain disease.

Carbon ink has a tendency to smudge in humid environments and can be washed off a surface.

* Concision bias, a tendency to report views that can be summarized succinctly, crowding out more unconventional views that take time to explain.

On June 16, as the Soviets invaded Lithuania, but before they had invaded Latvia and Estonia, Ribbentrop instructed his staff " to submit a report as soon as possible as to whether in the Baltic States a tendency to seek support from the Reich can be observed or whether an attempt was made to form a bloc.

The properties of the noble gases can be well explained by modern theories of atomic structure: their outer shell of valence electrons is considered to be " full ", giving them little tendency to participate in chemical reactions, and it has been possible to prepare only a few hundred noble gas compounds.

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

Traditional textbooks, aside from being expensive can also be inconvenient and out of date, because of publishers ' tendency to constantly print new editions.

Bureau of Labor Statistics data on PTAs and Techs can be difficult to decipher, due to their tendency to report data on these job fields collectively rather than separately.

Virulence ( the tendency of a pathogen to cause damage to a host's fitness ) evolves when that pathogen can spread from a diseased host, despite that host being very debilitated.

The errors induced by finite time steps tend to increase the rotational kinetic energy, ; this unphysical tendency can be counter-acted by repeatedly applying a small rotation vector perpendicular to both and, noting that.

It may also manifest itself as a tendency for people to evaluate ambiguous information in a way beneficial to their interests.

To these might be added " secondary elaboration "— the outcome of the dreamer's natural tendency to make some sort of " sense " or " story " out of the various elements of the manifest content as recollected.

The tendency to cannibalism and feather pecking varies among different strains of chickens, but does not manifest itself consistently.

These works reveal Novák's tendency, latent in the early folksong work, toward bitonality, although this technique is not as manifest as in the works of Stravinsky, Milhaud, or Szymanowski.

:# tendency to experience excessive self-importance, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude ;

The tendency to manifest multiple polyps is referred to as “ polyposis ”.

This Dürer influence is manifest in a tendency to overcrowding in composition, in a degree of attenuation in the proportions of, and a poverty of contour in, the nude figure, and also in a leaning to the selection of Gothic forms for draperies.

From an early age, his manifest tendency to the study of out-of-the-way subjects well suited his later interest in archaeology.

Before long, however, a clericalizing tendency soon began to manifest itself in linguistic usage, particularly after the Council of Laodicea, whose fifteenth Canon permitted only the canonical psaltai, " chanters ," to sing at the services.

The term has also been applied as a neologism to describe the tendency of a younger generation to manifest the undesirable traits of a previous generation, despite the repudiation of these traits when they were young.

By the same token, he recognized that ascertainment was responsible for a phenomenon known as anticipation, the tendency for a genetic disease to manifest earlier in life and with increased severity in later generations.

" I was attracted to studies of cancer families because epidemiological studies show that virtually all cancers manifest a tendency to aggregate in families.

However, Fulgentius ’ tendency to strip classical myth of all its manifest detail and replace it with ethical interpretations appears to have more in common with the late 5th-century writer Martianus Capella.

The significant percentage of the lowest income group is made manifest due to the tendency of fisherman respondents who comprise bulk of the seaside respondents not to put value to their fish catch and sea shells collection for kitchen use or domestic consumption.

Hence the effect of the law of value would usually be mediated by them, and would manifest itself only as a tendency, or as a law of " grand averages ".

" Beyond the difficulty of organizing resources for effective grand strategy, Betts explores both the retrospective fallacy of coherence-the tendency to see the actions of states as more coherent and purposeful than they actually were or to assume particular actions and choices as more decisive in the outcome of events than they actually were-and the prospective fallacy of control-the tendency of policymakers to believe they can exert far greater influence over events than they can.