One network producer said his Sunday public affairs show was careful to quiz guests about their ideological or partisan affiliations so that panels could be assembled with a variety of points of view, even if individual affiliations weren't fully disclosed on the air.
The magnitude of our task dwarfed our individual affiliations.
Similarities in other characteristics, such as field of specialization (β = 0.1988; p < 0.01), individual affiliations with hospital sites (β = 0.0845; p < 0.01), and organizational clinical directorates (β = 0.0459; p < 0.01), were also significantly related to physicians' propensity to collaborate.
"Both individuals' affiliation to UC Berkeley is unknown at this time," the university tweeted.
● Determinants linked to individuals' affiliations in the wider social system ("system factors"), such as the number of linkages of the individual to community organisations, density of connections between community organisations, deprivation of the neighbourhood.
In terms of Simmel's (1955: p.138) concepts of primary and secondary affiliations, "one group appears as the original focus of an individual's affiliation, from which he then turns toward affiliation with other, quite different groups on the basis of his special qualities, which distinguish him from other members of his primary group" (see also Breiger 1974).
But McCluskey praised Miliband's plans to introduce individual voluntary affiliation to the party of the trade union's political levy-payers.
We show that the very patchy genetic landscape that is emerging for North African mtDNA diversity is mainly due to the sampling strategy being conducted in small villages, where individual ethnic affiliation to one of the main groups (Berber or Arab) is considered to be safer.
This lack of association was robust to changes in model specification in terms of types of MRI exams considered, specific covariates included in the multivariate model, or the process used to confirm individual provider affiliation with study practices in study years.
Thus, it was possible to determine whether two users had the same political affiliations by using the anonymized data, but not what their individual political affiliations represented.
