And socially, the hereditary aristocracy that dominated the Zhou world during much of the Bronze Age (ca. 1500 400 BCE) was eclipsed by a much broader stratum of shi 士 (sometimes translated as "men of service"), who owed their position primarily to their abilities rather than their pedigree (Pines 2013c).
Both players rose suddenly, not from obscurity, but from the broad strata, just below stardom, of unfulfilled potential.
This chronological picture is of course compatible with the possibility that the three broad strata — the three linguistically identified groups of essays — were produced by different teams of Mohist writers or editors, as Graham's version of the three factions theory maintains.
Additionally, the central region of the IPL contained Sez-6 positive processes flanked by the two broad strata labelled with GABA.
In subsequent models, we explored the possibility of using ratios rather than percentiles [ 11, 20], the effects of maternal height and parity were estimated in broad strata and those of maternal age were not considered.
The successive revision theory proposes that we think of the three linguistically identified groups of essays primarily not as the canonical texts of three different Mohist factions, but as demarcating three broad chronological strata (Brooks, 1996c).
This resulted in only three broad diagnostic strata of "Mood," "Psychotic," and "Other" disorders.
To minimise the methodological challenges of interviewing children [ 15– 17], participants were classified into two broad age strata.
These patients came from broad socioeconomic strata, with 24% being from low-class families, 49% from middle-class families, and 27% from upper-class families.
Strata broader than used in the present pooled analysis were used to adjust for smoking habits in several previous studies, as we pointed out in that review.
