Philosophy can supply adequate criteria of meaning in the selection of socially viable categories.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

The C-isotope chemostratigraphic characteristics obtained for contemporaneous cap carbonates in different parts of the world may be variable in a wide range owing to different degrees of secondary alteration of carbonates, dissimilar criteria used for selection of the least altered samples, and, as far as the C-isotope data are concerned, due to primary lateral variations of δ < sup > l3 </ sup > C < sub > carb </ sub > in the upper layer of the ocean.

The databases have diverse selection criteria and methods of construction, and no single database captures all funds.

The information obtained from a job analysis is then used to create job-relevant selection procedures, performance appraisals and criteria, or training programs.

As a post-hoc analysis, critics emphasize the opportunity the method presents to produce biased outcomes via the selection of cases chosen for study, methods employed, and other key criteria.

It has been declared legal for police to make skin color and " non-German ethnic origin " criteria for the selection of persons who will be asked for identification in spot-checks for illegal immigrants.

There are six criteria that need to be satisfied for the exaggerated neck to be classified as a result of sexual selection.

A complete sample is a set of objects from a parent population that includes ALL such objects that satisfy a set of well-defined selection criteria.

* Screening, the process of identifying or selecting members of a population based on one or more selection criteria

In 1975 the Whitlam Government passed the Racial Discrimination Act, which made racially-based selection criteria illegal.

* Retrospectives – several thematic retrospectives presenting the work of a certain world-renowned film personality, a particular period, or a selection of works chosen according to specific criteria.

In mathematics, statistics, empirical sciences, computer science, or management science, mathematical optimization ( alternatively, optimization or mathematical programming ) is the selection of a best element ( with regard to some criteria ) from some set of available alternatives.

However, Glass argued that the better approach preserves variance in the study sample, casting as wide a net as possible, and that methodological selection criteria introduce unwanted subjectivity, defeating the purpose of the approach.

At the time, the selection criteria placed a heavy emphasis on the physical condition of cosmonauts and any imperfection led to instant disqualification.

He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.

The site was listed under the second and fourth Heritage Site selection criteria.

Each publication uses different criteria in the selection process.

Because the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 in the United Kingdom did not affect wills, it took another Act of Parliament to change the Rhodes ' will to extend selection criteria in 1977 to include women.

Calum MacKenzie, in his preface to the exhibition catalog, The Scottish Cartoonists ( Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, 1979 ) defined the selection criteria:

The double-positive T cells are exposed to a wide variety of self-antigens in the thymus and undergo two selection criteria:

Additionally, PAs can aid in the formulation of job criteria and selection of individuals “ who are best suited to perform the required organizational tasks ”.

After being nominated for inclusion on 28 October 1995, an evaluation of the site by the International Council on Monuments and Sites ( an advisory body of the World Heritage Committee ), recommended that the island be inscribed on the basis of criteria ( iii ) and ( iv ) of the World Heritage List's selection criteria, which relate the cultural significance of a site.

Other criteria for box sets have included all films of a series such as the Star Wars series or the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and a selection of adaptions of a particular author such as Stephen King or Jane Austen.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

To the members of our Advisory Board, and most specially to its members who constitute our committees of selection, the Foundation is indebted for its successes of choice of Fellows.

The selection of materials depends on skills of available labor for installation, cost of materials available locally, and your own preference.

There is a broad spectrum of organisms from which selection for a specified military purpose might be made.

It may be assumed that differences in ratings due to selection of growth centers from specific regions of the body will be small, according to existing tables of onset age and completion age for centers throughout the body.

In order to attain the goal of group solidarity and to relieve tension, the high fertility rate provides more group members for mate selection, and the clustering of members in groups fosters acceptance of group controls.

Children whose reading scores were at least one standard deviation below the regression line of each total third-grade school population were considered under-achievers for the purposes of sample selection.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

You will come to Alemagna, a delightful, though moderately expensive restaurant, which is particularly noted for its exceptional selection of ice creams and patisseries.

Body parts, pointers, adapted mice, joysticks, or eye tracking could be used, whereas switch access scanning is often used for indirect selection.

In many cases such a selection can be made without invoking the axiom of choice ; this is in particular the case if the number of bins is finite, or if a selection rule is available: a distinguishing property that happens to hold for exactly one object in each bin.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

The Asphodel Fields were for a varied selection of human souls: Those whose sins equalled their goodness, were indecisive in their lives, or were not judged.

There are rather strict selection rules as to the electronic configurations that can be reached by excitation by light — however there are no such rules for excitation by collision processes.

The Taylor Scale was adapted from the Minnesota Multiphastic Personality Inventory, with item selection based upon clinical definitions of anxiety.

The Foo Fighters paid homage to the band in performing " Tie Your Mother Down " to open the ceremony before being joined on stage by May, Taylor, and Paul Rodgers, who played a selection of Queen hits.

Brian May confirmed that he and Taylor are working their way through the band's old material to compile a selection of unreleased songs for the forthcoming album.

Disney made story writers Joe Grant and Dick Huemer gather a preliminary selection of music and along with Stokowski, Taylor, and the heads of various departments, discussed their ideas.

However, Taylor was overlooked for selection in the ODIs.

Taylor continued to be overlooked by the selectors in the shorter version of the game, missing selection for all of the season's triangular tournament.

Performing a selection of pop standards by the likes of Berlin, Kalmar and Ruby, Nilsson sang in front of an orchestra arranged and conducted by veteran Gordon Jenkins in sessions produced by Derek Taylor.

He arranged a rehearsal studio in Denmark Street, where a 3-piece band consisting of Hynde, Mal Hart on bass ( he had played with Hynde and Steve Strange in The Moors Murderers ), and Phil Taylor of Motörhead on drums played a selection of Hynde's original songs.

It was initially intended as a creative outlet for The Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston.

Willis's selection was a response to the provincial victory of the United Farmers of Ontario the previous month ; he defeated Major Fawcett Taylor after three other candidates ( including Prefontaine ) withdrew their names.

In a pre-game ceremony, he was awarded the Canucks ' Cyclone Taylor Trophy, Cyrus H. McLean Trophy and Molson Cup as the team's most valuable player, leading scorer and three-star selection leader, respectively.

New York Islanders traded Žigmund Pálffy, Bryan Smolinski, Marcel Cousineau and 4th round selection ( previously acquired from the New Jersey Devils-Daniel Johansson ) in 1999 to the Los Angeles Kings for Olli Jokinen, Josh Green, Mathieu Biron and 1st round selection ( Taylor Pyatt ) in 1999.

She studied the 18th-century English Platonist Thomas Taylor ( 1758 – 1835 ), and published a selection of his works.

* Jeremy Taylor, A selection from his works ( 1923 ) editor

As a senior at Ribault High School, Taylor was a first team Class 4A All-State selection, won All-America honors from SuperPrep, and was named to The Florida Times-Union Area Super 24 Team.

Although frequently considered for selection during this period by a number of England managers including Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor, he was never selected for the full squad.

Taylor was also an Orlando Sentinel Super Southern Team selection, the No. 1 athlete on the Florida Times-Union Super 75 list and rated the No. 1 player in Florida by The Gainesville Sun.

In 2002, his first season as a starter, Taylor was a second-team All-Big East selection by the league's head coaches.

The four original members-Richard Harvey, Brian Gulland, Graeme Taylor and Dave Oberlé-opened the evening with a selection of songs and instrumentals from the first album Gryphon.