Maybe that is a function of television.
How much is this a function of television, and, specifically, reality TV, which seems to need to create a national expert for every skill (home organization, getting straight guys to dress better), even if the existence of the skill wasn't previously known?
We choose this simple form for the proxy since a parameterized model of raw contacts as a function of television viewing is not available.
If there is one complaint about NJN as a service, it is the duplication of programming, something Ms. Christopherson at once acknowledged but largely dismissed as a function of public television all over the country.
In the first analysis, logistic models were used to calculate prevalence odds ratios for overweight (including obesity) as a function of the three television indicators, with one model adjusting for survey country (dummy variables), parental education (dichotomous), age (continuous) and sex.
As for his global, Paris Hilton-like celebrity, that is surely a function of his years on television playing Bob Hope to various right-wing Bing Crosbys, such as William F. Buckley, Jr. (on PBS's "Firing Line"), and Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak (on CNN's "Crossfire").
It's customary to speak of the New Golden Age of Television as a function of quality drama.
In many countries, particularly in Latin America and Asia, the only function of television is to entertain.
Finally, on February 5th, the presumed finale: some 20 states will hold their primaries and caucuses a contest fought out through television advertising (a function of money-raising skills) and get-out-the-vote operations (a sure test of organisational ability).
The article is more adult in its presentation of sex than, say, Fox News' lopsided coverage of the story (but that could just be a function of the different media, print vs. television, as was a thesis in "Amusing Ourselves to Death").
"It's a function of patient management.
