To the Editor: The dilemma Bronwen Hruska describes — whether or not to medicate an active child — is all too common for parents.
Another pair of terms, ectothermy and endothermy, describes whether most of an animal's heat is absorbed from the environment ("ecto-") or generated by internal processes ("endo-").
It describes whether each region of the world has a food surplus or deficit, and how imports or exports have changed since 1965.Several lessons emerge.
A third pair of terms, poikilothermy and homeothermy, describes whether the body temperature tends to vary with that of the immediate environment or remains relatively constant.
Stuart disproves the "kind master" and "docile slave" stereotypes; every person she describes, whether slave, master or the wide cast of those "in between," was trying to grab at whatever possibilities or luck might emerge from the inhumane system.
It records and describes, whether it is a windowsill, a view, a room and the people and things in it, a steam train emerging from a fireplace and the clock on the mantelpiece stuck at twenty to one.
The last parameter describes whether the plastic flow is associative or non-associative.
I Semantic level: The semantic interoperability describes whether the words/identifiers used are compatible.
Academic background describes whether FVB students have parents with an academic degree.
Accordingly, the wholist-analytic dimension describes whether an individual tends to process information in wholes or parts, while the verbal-imager dimension describes whether an individual is inclined to represent information verbally or visually during thinking.
The wholist-analytic dimension describes whether an individual tends to process information in wholes or parts, while the verbal-imager dimension describes whether an individual is inclined to represent information verbally or visually during thinking (Riding and Rayner 1998).
