Sentence examples for cardinal criterion from inspiring English sources

"I'm struck at how often Arabs I talk to who believe in what we're doing -- democratic reform in the Middle East -- say that the cardinal criterion isn't elections or freedom but equal justice under the law".

DSM-IV grants episodic irritability an equal status to low mood as a cardinal criterion for the diagnosis of depression in youth, yet not in adults; however, evidence for irritability as a major criterion of depression in youth is lacking.

This unusual response of Leydig cells is very unlikely to be due to the age of the donors as their testes displayed full spermatogenesis as assessed by transillumination, a cardinal criteria to establish the functioning of the testis and therefore of Leydig cells.

The co-occurrence of depressed and irritable mood was associated with higher risk for comorbid conduct disorder in girls (gender-by-group interaction, F1,132 = 4.66, p =.03).Our study findings do not support the use of irritability as a cardinal mood criterion for depression.

This paper aims at introducing their relevant background stimuli, their features, and their cardinal use criteria.

Cardinal outcome criteria were: Brady/hypokinesia of gait.

One of the three cardinal findings and criteria for diagnosing 'brain death', according to the US President's Commission and the 1995 AAN guidelines, is 'coma'30 (the other two being absence of brain stem reflexes and apnea) which is synonymous to the (irreversible) 'absence of consciousness' including both of its components: arousal and content of consciousness.

Linear mixed models [ 28] were used to analyze repeated measures of primary, other cardinal and complementary outcome criteria.

Clinical diagnosis is possible only when the patient is symptomatic, exhibiting lesions and satisfies the criteria of cardinal signs of leprosy [ 23].

We compared these groups using robust regression models on adolescent characteristics and early adult (ages 19-21 years) depression outcomes.Depressed mood was the most common cardinal mood in youth meeting criteria for depression (58.7%), followed by the co-occurrence of depressed and irritable mood (35.6%); irritable mood alone was rare (5.7%).

Diagnosis is established on the basis of clinical criteria by which cardinal signs and symptoms must be carefully observed for a differential diagnosis [ 44, 45].