Diversities were calculated for language, religious and ethnic groups (see Diversity Indices, below).
To explore this variable as a barrier to the frequency of screening for types of abuse, three additional hierarchical OLS regression models were calculated with language fluency added as Step 3 (see Table 4).
The magnitude of the discrepancy between parental communication checklist and standardised language test was then calculated as the language composite minus the standardised total CCC-2 score (DISCREP).
Inter-linguistic contact was calculated based on languages boundaries: for each language we counted the number of languages contained in, overlapping with, or contacting the area polygons of other languages.
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In an attempt to legitimise its actions, Israel has invoked a language calculated to go down well with the global powers-that-be, such as "terrorists", "war on terror" and "the Palestinian al-Qaida".
Putin was speaking as a former Soviet apparatchik, in language calculated to stoke ever-combustible Russian nationalism, articulating his country's grievances against a world which no longer gave it the respect it believed due.
In language calculated to make the Justice Department recommend a pardon to Reagan, Steinbrenner's lawyer wrote, "Not considering the ramification and the possible retaliation by the arrested individuals, Mr. Steinbrenner again readily cooperated".
Although the Olympian perspective of history and science offered by a Harvard professor of psychology makes Pinker sound like an ultra-liberal, he buys the idea that broadcast networks – not least, for reasons of economic self-interest – have every right to guard against intrusive and profane language calculated to upset large numbers of viewers.
