Respected polling experts, including Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center and Mr. Newport, argued that party affiliation was a red herring, because it was fluid, so most pollsters did not adjust their samples to reflect it as they do fixed characteristics like ethnicity, sex and age.
Existing protection relays primarily use fixed characteristics that do not adapt to the true system conditions.
Labor economists treat fixed characteristics such as gender and race as having time-varying effects in empirical analysis.
Finally, on the question of the objectivity of the past: Is there a basis for saying that events or circumstances in the past have objective, fixed characteristics that are independent from our representation of those events?
Okonofua is working with other Stanford researchers at five middle schools to help teachers think of their students' behavior as people who can grow, as opposed to being made up of fixed characteristics or labels like troublemaker.
Thus, we also sought to test the hypothesis that the effect of temperature and the developmental zero are fixed characteristics of Ae. aegypti strains.
In other words, each unit has set of unique characteristics (unobserved) that do not change over time, so any change in the outcome of interest is due to something other than these fixed characteristics.
Because the analysis of exposure was time dependent, with patients moving from the unexposed to exposed groups, fixed characteristics of each patient who contributed person time to each exposure category are included in every category to which they contributed.
The term "coping" can be viewed in two ways: through the collection of relatively fixed characteristics of the individual (so-called coping styles) and in relation to activities undertaken by him/her in a particularly difficult situation (so-called coping strategies) [ 41, 42].
Thankfully, curiosity is not a fixed characteristic.
