polythetic

(of a taxon) where each member possess a majority of a set of characters.

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2009), a liberal approach would necessitate use of polythetic scoring and a monothetic scoring scheme (Andreassen et al.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES USE SCALE WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS

Indicator Species Analysis, a Divisive Polythetic Method of Classification and its Application to a Survey of Native Pinewoods in Scotland.

PHYTOSOCIOLOGY OF TREE VEGETATION IN IGUACU NATIONAL PARK/FITOSSOCIOLOGIA DA VEGETACAO ARBOREA DO PARQUE NACIONAL DO IGUACU

This monothetic unity is composed of various polythetic constituents, subprovinces--Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism--that aid in the constitution of this province.

Kendo: between "religion" and "nationalism"

This combination is sufficient to conform an intentional meaning of the polythetic concept of the new clade (Reig, 1987:364).

Una nueva tribu de roedores Sigmodontinae (Cricetidae)

However, in acknowledgement of the polythetic nature of psychosis, researchers in this area have also used more specific symptomatic components of psychosis as representative dependent variables: paranoid ideation, hallucinations, and, more rarely, abnormalities of thought.

Unravelling psychosis: psychosocial epidemiology, mechanism, and meaning

In "Introduction: Understanding the New Reform Judaism," Kaplan defines Reform Judaism as a movement that actively harmonizes religious practices and beliefs within the context of a polythetic under standing of Judaism and modern culture of pluralism.

The New Reform Judaism: Challenges and Reflections

I would have preferred that she lean more on Bastide's own, more polythetic formulation, which approaches Afro-Atlantic cultural history in terms of two overlapping, yet nonsynonymous registers: the experience of "black" people of sub-Saharan descent in the Americas whether or not it involves African culture, perse, and the routes and transplanted roots of "African" cultural forms whether or not tethered to black people.

The Black Diaspora of the Americas: Experiences and Theories out of the Caribbean

It is argued that the polythetic notion of family resemblance is useful in gambling studies since it does not impose fixed conceptual boundaries between activities that share many elements.

Games of life and death: the judicial uses of dice in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sweden

To define the functional groups, considering the trait state selected for this study, a hierarchical, agglomerative and polythetic clustering analysis based on Bray-Curtis distances was used.

Temporal change in species and functional plant traits in the moist grassland on the Sete Cidades National Park, Piaui, Brazil/Mudanca temporal nas especies e atributos funcionais de plantas em campo limpo umido de Cerrado no Parque Nacional de Sete Cidades, Piaui, Brasil

Jean and John Comaroff have highlighted the ideological shift that has taken place throughout the last decades from an 'old-style' nationalism to our contemporary identity politics; it is a shift, they argue, from the 'old-style' understanding of the nation state as a single, coherent, construct, to a labile historical formation, a polythetic class of polities-in-motion.

Una imagen real de la Argentina: contranarrativas artisticas a traves del Archivo Caminante y el proyecto Hegemonia

case definition uses a polythetic approach for assessing symptomatology.

Contrasting case definitions: the ME International Consensus Criteria vs. the Fukuda et al. CFS Criteria

The SCID-II includes the nine DSM polythetic criteria set for BPD.

Entrevistas SCID-II y DIB-R: asociacion del diagnostico de Trastorno Limite de la Personalidad con factores de riesgo de mal pronostico

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