Fundamentally, the witch hunts of Salem were the result of a neural circuit in the insula, amygdala, striatum, orbital and ventromedial frontal cortex, which within a fraction of a second of seeing another person, categorizes the individual into either "us" or "them".
Thus, if justice is held in high regard, but the person categorizes politicians as interfering with justice, then the person's attitude toward that class of people is taken to be negative.
A person was categorized as suffering from dementia if in any of the registers they had an ICD-10 code for dementia F00-F033) or Alzheimer's disease (G30).
A person is categorized as having symptoms if he or she scores four or more on any one or more of the 12 sets [ 19].
Specifically, a person was categorized as having moderate periodontitis if 2 or more interproximal sites had a clinical attachment loss of ≥4 mm (not on the same tooth) or if 2 or more sites had a probing depth of ≥5 mm (not on the same tooth).
Functional status is measured at base line, and a person is categorized into working "able to perform usual work in or out of the house"; Ambulatory "able to perform activities of daily living" and Bedridden "not able to perform activities of daily living".
Persons categorized as high-risk have a preexisting medical condition (e.g., diabetes) that makes them more susceptible to developing medical complications due to influenza.
Before accounting for any of the covariates, those HIV-positive persons categorized to B*57-NPD had an ∼83% lower risk of progressing to AIDS compared to individuals who lacked a HLA-B*57 allele (RH = 0.17; 95% CI = 0.07 0.41; Table 4, model 1).
Further, in a prospective study conducted at the same laboratories, all specimens from persons categorized as pregnant using these criteria (n = 474) were found to be pregnant on a quantitative HCG pregnancy test and 1430/1431 (99.93%) labeled as not pregnant using these criteria were found not to be pregnant using a quantitative HCG pregnancy test.
