The bacillus in question is the compulsion to seek out the covert meanings and messages in human behavior, especially in dreams, memories and stories.
The desire to be relieved, the expectations from the procedure, the memory of previous effects [19, 20], and the overt and covert meanings of the procedure [8] influence the placebo effect according to an expectation response theory in which expectations are the major determinant of what will occur in a given situation [21].
Special inks, watermarking, and other "covert" technologies (meaning those invisible to the naked eye) are becoming more popular as a result.
The underlying methodology, with its meticulous teasing out of suppressed or covert nuances of meaning, comes more or less from Freud, whose legacy seems, increasingly, to be settling in this midway zone between psychology and literary criticism.
The cryptographic protocol designed for such a system can be proven secure assuming a security model: semi-honest, covert, or malicious, meaning that to a well-defined extent, the inputs from the users are protected from the service provider and any malicious attacker in an execution, thus providing trustworthiness.
The subjective preference for analgesics for cancer pain was tied to a number of covert factors such as meaning of cancer pain treatment, past experience with pain relief and analgesic side effects, fears of dependency and tolerance, and past experience with providers and the health system.
Secretive doesn't always mean covert.
Amid the ongoing scandals over mass covert surveillance, the politics of meaning – of what can or cannot be read between the lines we type – are becoming increasingly urgent.
I'd occasionally get sent on a covert pick-up and drop off, meaning I had to carry a gun in my jeans while driving a civilian vehicle.
