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biassed BrE

Biased competition theory is, simply stated, the competition of objects for processing.

Biased competition serves to prioritize task relevant information to make visual search more efficient .

Mean Biased Error, a form of calculating of statistical error in mathematics.

Since the development of Biased Competition Theory much research has been undertaken to validate the theory's ideas .

"Another Biased Death Penalty" (editorial, March 17) is exemplary in this regard.

"Biased Bigotry"

We are warned by Rose and Barker: 'Biased error strikes at the roots of comparisons.

Look like a bunch of Biased GSP fans.

Desimone suggested that the Biased Competition Model comprised five main tenets :

A Study of a Biased Friendship Net (with M. Sunshine).

Thomas Zaslavsky (1989), Biased graphs.

Blunt: A Biased History of Australian Rock - Bob Blunt.

"Some Science Fiction Parameters: A Biased View" (essay)

"Biased tidings: The media and the Cyril Burt controversy", Mankind Quarterly, 33, 203.

Thomas Zaslavsky (2003), Biased graphs IV: Geometrical realizations.

Justice Official Made Politically Biased Hires NPR, Retrieved January 13, 2009.

Judge Is Called Biased "This is a message to everybody who works in the city of New York or a public agency," Justice Egitto said.

The second episode was entitled "A Biased Anthology of Parisian Peripheries" and focuses on Frenchness and its major traits.

"Biased language" is language which favours one group of the population at the expense of another; the group not favoured is then said to be marginalised or derogated.

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Top-down and Bottom-up biases have been tested in order to ascertain the legitimacy of their influence on visual perception and competition as described by Biased Competition Theory.

Amusingly, he also won the TV Fugly Award for "Most Biased Sporting Commentator" in those same four years [1].

However, this statement of Theodore Baskaran has been highly condemned by learned councils mentioning Theodore Baskaran as a "Biased Historian".

B8 Crackdown on Biased Cabbies The city seized the taxis of five drivers who refused to pick up passengers on the basis of race or gender, officials said.

The new Biased Playlists offer a way to let Amarok take care of the playlist in an intelligent way similar to Dynamic Playlists in previous versions.

Each protozoon makes a biassed random walk about the screen.

These negative emotional states may discourage audience members from criticism and challenge of the biassed information presented through war journalism.

This is a strangely biassed article.

Parties are therefore presented with a biassed picture of the entire conflict, favouring violent responses to the conflict.

Perhaps I should know better but I really did think the Guardian was beyond such a blatantly commercial, biassed and self-serving piece of utter tripe.

Smith's unfavourable opinion, which does not seem justified in respect of Coleman's professional career, is expressed in what seems to be is an inexplicably biassed manner.

How can the Guardian print this sort of biassed, ill-informed rubbish without clearly stating that's it's an individual opinion, obviously form someone with a particular axe to grind.

Not all, but it is a growing trend: distortion of the facts, biassed attitudes, manipulation of pictures and sound, not checking facts, not being prepared to correct mistakes.

But while we recognise the natural character of the prejudice to which these unhappy men are subject, we can neither receive their biassed evidence, nor address ourself to their inflamed and angered minds.

According to Carrick's admittedly biassed complaint, the anonymous correspondent must have been an ambitious junior officer, for 'there is no body of Men so full of plot and envy as the Excise'.

He also kept up his activity as a publicist, in 1814 defending in a detailed and somewhat biassed pamphlet the policy of the minister Montgelas, and he undertook critical studies in the history of the Jesuits.

In 2002 he was reelected to parliament, Medvedchuk was the First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from February 2000 till December 2001 when he was dismissed for abuse of power, biassed treatment of the parliament's agenda and procedural violations.

The BJP heavily criticised the Congress government and its policies, and while it opposed the Sikh militancy that was rising in the state of Punjab, it also blamed Indira Gandhi for biassed and corrupt politics that instigated the militancy at national expense.

We are all too apt when we sit down to study a subject to have already formed our opinion, and to weave all matter to the warp of our preconceived judgment, to fall in with the received idea, and, with biassed minds, unconsciously to follow in the wake of public opinion, while professing to lead it.

I don't like Howard's novels, and actually I like most of Churchill's plays...(I'm biassed - Churchill's a clever feminist, and Howard is a bit of an old mcp in my view), but having just read the script, I think Churchill's play in this case is political kitsch.