Other dimensions, not necessarily orthogonal to each other, include whether the stressor occurred during childhood or maturity, the degree to which the stressor is acute or chronic and expected or unexpected, whether the threat is emotional or physical, and the difficulty of discerning whether the stressor was the cause or consequence of the health outcome under consideration.
In some stories, kitsune have difficulty hiding their tails when they take human form; looking for the tail, perhaps when the fox gets drunk or careless, is a common method of discerning the creature's true nature.
These hypotheses have, however, rarely been applied to palaeontological datasets, due to the difficulty of discerning developmental mechanisms in the fossil record (but see [ 5] and references therein).
Gestures used in the middle of rough-and-tumble play were also excluded, because of the difficulty of discerning their target audience and goal in the melee of close interaction.
In oral arguments on the securities fraud charge, Cedarbaum was clearly troubled by the difficulty of discerning Stewart's state of mind, an element of any fraud charge.
The 60-something pop-jazz singer can take a seemingly innocent song like "Charade," Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's breezy title tune from the 1963 Cary Grant-Audrey Hepburn movie, slice it apart with her scalpel of a voice and reveal its essence to be a cynical, self-mocking statement about romantic game-playing and the difficulty of discerning truthfulness in relationships.
It shows the risks of expecting American aid in a time of desperation to buy durable loyalty, and the difficulty of discerning friends from allies of convenience in a culture shaped by decades of anti-Western sentiment".
In practice, coders generally assigned a 'P' (primary) flag to all intrapartum events because of the difficulty of discerning causation by stage of labour.
Doses and routes of drug administration as well as duration of treatment and end of treat to test interval vary widely across studies, increasing the difficulty of discerning patterns.
The main difficulty to discern the nature of the synergism responsible for alcohol formation is related to the Co reducibility under reaction conditions.
