But it is highly plausible that "desirable" means something like "fittingly or correctly desired" — after all, desirability is a normative, not a merely descriptive, characteristic, and it has something to do with desire.
That ongoing confusion between desirability and desire may help explain another trend giving parents agita: the number of teenage girls — 22 percent according to a 2008 survey by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy — who have electronically sent or posted nude or seminude photos of themselves.
Still, there's no getting around that spell, which seems to have been cast so that Wolitzer can explore the midlife sexuality of women -- that turning away, or turning inward, that happens to so many who are unwilling to continue doggedly working at desirability, at desire itself.
Jaimini's central concern is dharma, which is defined as the desired object (artha), whose desirability is testified only by the injunctive statements of the scriptures (chodana-lakshano).
Self-reported information might have been influenced by recall bias and the social desirability effect, ie, patients' desire not to disclose non-adherence in order to present themselves as a good patient.
Optimization of the process was carried out by using desirability (D) function by targeting the factors to desired levels for maximum removal of Cr VI).
Formulation composition that provided the most desired and optimized results was selected using desirability approach.
Adverse conditions in terms of quality of predictions and robustness are simulated to evaluate the ability of desirability-based methods for yielding compromise solutions with desired response's properties.
In addition, an optimum is found when common conditions are desired for all the analysed compounds using the desirability function, being found at 1.8% of methanol and pH 5.9.
