This corresponds to research showing that, of many symptoms of depression, loss of interest best discriminated between patients with and without diagnosis of comorbid affective disorder (Reuter et al, 2004).
Perhaps even more striking are changes in China's own stock market, long seen as a corrupt casino dominated by state interests that discriminated against private firms.
Charles Cooper, representing four Californians seeking to uphold the results of a referendum barring gay marriage in the state, said that because same-sex couples cannot have children together the state has an interest in discriminating against them.
Metabolic component traits demonstrated also their interest to discriminate genotypes for drought response mechanisms (Shao et al. 2009; Verslues and Juenger 2011), which is thought to be particularly relevant for vegetative stage drought (Cabuslay et al. 2002; Jahn et al. 2011).
Most concerns have focused on insurance companies and employers, but as the use of genetic information proliferates, one can readily imagine other institutions in society developing an interest in discriminating among individuals on the basis of such information: schools, departments of motor vehicles, immigration authorities, creditors, adoption agencies (Nelkin 1992; Nelkin and Tancredi 1989).
The issue of marriage equality for gays and lesbians almost surely will be before the Supreme Court next term and ultimately the question is whether there is any legitimate interest in discriminating against gays and lesbians.
The color plot helps identify the analytes of interest and discriminate them from interferents.
A c-statistic is commonly used to quantify the capacity of a biomarker of interest to discriminate between outcomes.
Consensus sequences were determined for every species and/or genus of interest and discriminating nucleotides were determined with the computer software ORMA.
In addition, we calculated areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) to assess the capability of serum β2MG and other variables of interest to discriminate patients with a drop in eGFR ≥25% after one and two years of follow-up.
