The TCI is a questionnaire which distinguishes four temperament dimensions, namely Harm Avoidance (HA), Novelty Seeking (NS), Reward Dependence (RD) and Persistence (P) [ 15].
McEwan's empirical temperament distinguishes him from his friends Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Julian Barnes.
For, while they laid the foundation for the painterly revolution of the Impressionists, the Barbizon painters always retained the generous appreciation of natural beauty and emotional involvement with their subject that everywhere distinguish the Romantic temperament.
They distinguished subclinical dysphoric children from children with low negative affect, measured temperament and recent stressful life events and, in the three older groups, assessed pubertal maturation.
This is a well-established, widely used measure, developed from the work of Thomas and Chess (1977), distinguishing nine domains of temperament (activity, adaptability, approach, distractibility, intensity, mood, persistence, rhythmicity, and threshold).
Wholly different in temperament (Clement urbane and allusive, Tertullian vigorous and vulgar), both men wrote distinguished prose with regard to form and rhetorical convention.
They are distinguished from the cold bloods, the heavy draft horses, and racehorses, or hot bloods, by their remarkable temperaments and lithe movements.
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The best solution distinguished between two sub-domains grouping positive symptoms and negative symptoms as measured by the SPQ subscales, and a sub-domain related to the affective temperaments as measured by the TEMPS-A.
Moreover, it has been found that few musicians can distinguish melodically between just intonation and equal temperament and that those who can do so prefer the latter.
