Synonym: diagonal, oblique, prejudgment, prejudice, sway. Similar words: bags, as, bad, ban, bar, base, bat, bay. Meaning: ['baɪəs] n. 1. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation 2. a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric. v. 1. influence in an unfair way 2. cause to be biased. adj. slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric.
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151 We therefore test for model consistency with a model consistency check and a statistical test for omitted heterogeneity bias.
152 Inner city initiatives exhibit a similar bias against local government.
153 Skating is rife with bias, carrying the inherent subjectivity of judging to extremes.
154 The Morgan Stanley suit is thought to have been the first to allege workplace bias via electronic mail.
155 To minimise potential bias, the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients.
156 But this looks like racial bias, it smells like racial bias, it is racial bias of the worst kind.
157 An excellent article on selection bias using real examples from the comparative literature.
158 Surprisingly, perceptions of bias never had a significant impact on usefulness-ratings.
159 It can not be repeated too often - don't develop a bias towards one particular attitude or direction.
160 The second type of discrimination, indirect discrimination, is to deal with the more hidden forms of bias.
161 Much of this reflects the entrenched acute-service bias of the National Health Service, and major change would have far-reaching implications.
162 We have an example of selection bias as described in Section 15.2.7.
163 But at 8-10 in the Big East, does their entry reflect East Coast bias?
164 Omissions are most patent perhaps in surveys made with a political bias.
165 I shall view it as a principle that operates without any bias towards the emergence of certain sorts of organ.
166 That would introduce a bias toward heart trouble among calcium channel blocker users.
167 Then there's the problem of survivorship bias.
168 Because being open to new experiences is socially desirable, if this theory is correct, we'd expect the same positive bias from our friends.
169 The temperature dependence of exchange bias and coercivity of ferromagnetic layer and antiferromagnetic gain layer is discussed.
170 For automobile tires, motorcycle tires, bicycle tires, OTR tires, aircraft tires, bias tires, radial tires and other light, lightening, by the black handle, called the tire treasure.
171 Genetic effects could be predicted without bias by adjusted unbiased prediction (AUP) method for both ADAA models and seed models.
172 Another example of bias is that pharmaceutical companies do few head-to-head comparisons of treatments.
173 There exists a bias in the translation circle:in technical translation, logical thinking is a must while figurative thinking is of no importance.
174 Two frames of equal exposure are subtracted and the resultant frame has no bias shift and any pattern noise is removed.
175 Objective To test the calibration bias and matrix effects of cholesterol reagents.
176 In wireless communication system,(sentencedict.com/bias.html) there is a large frequency bias between carrier frequency and local oscillating frequency. AFC is contributed to eliminate it.
177 Thirdly, according to the design techniques mentioned above, three kinds of Low-Power rectifier, demodulator and other circuits, such as bias circuits, POR generator, etc. are put forward.
178 The exact value of the bias generation resistors varies somewhat from model to model, but this has no effect on the sound of the unit as long as the bias voltage is about 4.5V.
179 After the introduction of the characteristics of semiconductor laser diode, the bias current supply of the laser driver and the automatic power control(APC)function were analyzed.
180 Other evidence for severe lateral velocity change across the fault zone lies in hypocenter bias and nodal plane distortion for earthquakes on the fault.