Few studies fulfill the criteria of good study design because of small sample size, insensitive measures of effect, selection, recall, and observation bias, weak if any control of confounding factors, bad definition of exposure, inability to analyze a dose-response relationship, and inadequate statistical analysis.
The report will say whether the psychiatrist who led the evaluation - who works for the state mental hospital - believes Holmes meets Colorado's legal definition of insanity: the inability to tell the difference between right and wrong because of a mental disease or defect.
She is discovering for herself that a working definition of depression is an inability to imagine the future.
Citing the definition of infertility as the inability to conceive after trying for 12 months, Gary Cherr, the study's senior author, said, "Our data suggests a likelihood or probability that couples are unable to conceive in the 12-months window will increase significantly if men lack the normal gene".
CORRECTION: A previous version of this post said the broadest definition of CFS is "the inability to get out of bed for more than six months".
This post isn't meant to be a diatribe about US maternity leave policy, but to expect women to return to work when their babies are still so vulnerable and their own emotional and physical states are nowhere near back to normal is the definition of insanity, not my inability to deal with those requirements.
A gamete function deficiency that has only modest effects in the mouse could produce a more significant effect on human fertility, particularly since the clinical definition of infertility is an inability to conceive after a year of unprotected intercourse.
Recently, Rohde and Bhalerao introduced a new definition of dormancy as 'the inability to initiate growth from meristems (and other organs and cells with the capacity to resume growth) under favorable conditions'.
However, the definition of what would constitute an inability to discharge the duties of office was left deliberately vague.
These marijuana users do not meet the clinical definition of addiction, which includes an inability to stop using the drug, an uncontrollable obsession with it and increased tolerance.
The definition of failure pertains to the inability to adequately satisfy the regulatory standards of safety and efficacy for new drug approval.
