But Mr Nagin's low numbers are also partly a function of his habit of dividing his constituents, suggesting that any criticism of him is racially motivated and muttering darkly about a "shadow government" and a conspiracy to install whites in offices once held by blacks.
One can conclude that similar surface chemistry is involved in prior studies that observed changes in adsorption amounts and mechanisms onto hematite as a function of crystal habit [7].
For some Buddhists, the "substantial" character of this capacity seemed to imply the presence in each of us of a "true self"—not the egoistic self that appears as a function of ignorance, habit formations and craving forms of desire, and that is dissolved through Buddhist training and the realization of no-self (anatman), but rather an unassailably aware core of being-present.
First, we employed PGLS to analyse how leaf economic traits and PASS varied as a function of leaf habit or elevation that was included as an independent categorical variable.
Much of what is known about Martins is clouded by speculation, a function of her isolation, her habit of burning letters, and her own self-mythologizing.
Companies increasingly find that their economic value is a function of the strength of the habits they create.
We assume that most likely the total LOS is not only a result of surgical strategy, patient characteristics and surgeon's decision, but is also a function of local guidelines, historically developed processes, habits and the individual preferences of the surgeon.
We took contact type as a function of different variables such as their sleeping habit, the frequency of physical activity in a week, fast food intake and fresh fruits and juices intake to analyze whether the focal person and her contact type (Best friend, friend, acquaintance) share same interests or not. Figure 8 show the strip charts of the habits of focal person and her contacts.
Our habit of sending anonymous cards is largely a function of the volume of so-called "mechanical valentines" being produced by Victorian printers.
The basic concept for Hull was "habit strength," which was said to develop as a function of practice.
