More insidiously, they criminalize selective abortion, which means that a woman cannot choose to terminate a pregnancy because she knows the fetus has a genetic abnormality, or to select for other characteristics, such as gender.
Concerns include the cost of testing athletes less likely to carry the trait and those competing in lower-intensity sports, as well as whether the test would lead the N.C.A.A. to require other, more-costly tests for other characteristics.
The proton and carbon signals for other characteristics groups were observed according to the expected chemical shift and integral values.
Next, we will employ an econometric model to study this relationship more precisely, controlling for other characteristics of the household.
These have the advantage over the estimates in the last section of providing evidence on the effect of individual characteristics while controlling for other characteristics.
Findings demonstrate that when controlling for other characteristics, most of the characteristics captured in the conceptual model predict type of child care selected.
But knowing how the relative prices of an hour of workers' time vary over the cycle across these different race/ethnicity gender groups, after accounting for other characteristics, is just as important.
Controlling for other characteristics, we estimate that, in the 5 years after the FMR, former beneficiaries earn roughly $11,000 more (per year) than those continued on the program (Table 3).
But after accounting for other characteristics that can be associated with an increase in crash risk -- factors like age, gender and race -- the study found that the risk of a crash nearly vanished in drivers who had used marijuana.
The Hog Island sheep is not commonly used in modern agriculture, largely because of its endangered status and because more modern breeds have been bred for other characteristics, including maximum size and fleece yield.
See Table 1 for other characteristics of the subjects.
