We see our world as populated by discrete objects, individual things – this person over here, that person over there; this computer on the table; that tree outside, and the squirrel climbing its trunk; and so on.
Furthermore, previous studies measured societal preferences in a variety of ways, for example, by means of discrete choice experiments, person trade-off, time trade-off or willingness to pay (Unpublished data: I. van der Wulp et al).
Hence the discrete response for a person who died during the third year following diagnosis would be (0, 0, 1), whereas it would be (0, 0, 0) if an individual was censored that year.
Eventually, rights arise which are not based on the primacy of these earlier, less developed social institutions, but on the idea of persons as discrete and potentially rational individuals.
Several fMRI studies, many published in the last decade, used specifically designed tasks to investigate abnormalities in discrete neural systems in persons with ASDs.
These factors relate to the discrete sub-group of persons accessing mainstream psychiatric services, the inherent risk factors for PTSD within this group and the trauma characteristics demonstrated by this group.
In this paper, an iterative adaptive critic design (ACD) algorithm is proposed to solve a class of discrete-time two-person zero-sum games for Roesser type 2-D system.
The new definition is "a discrete term, such as" a person, entity, account, "address or device".
But I mainly want to call attention to our society's essentialist determination to dragoon a person into one discrete category or another.
Each set contains two series of 93 images of the same person at 93 discrete head poses [34].
