The association did not vary materially within subgroups defined by age, sex, smoking status, alcohol drinking, or body mass index; diagnosis of osteoporosis, previous fracture, or previous upper gastrointestinal disease; or prescription of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, or acid suppressant drugs.
The latter, also called 'subtle matter' or 'spirit', is more reminiscent of Leibniz'monadsds' than of mechanically defined and materially, as well as spatially, determined atoms.
The results did not materially change when we defined incident hyperuricemia as a serum urate level >6.8 mg/dL.
In the age of terror, the Patriot Act denies entry to anyone who materially supports a terrorist organization, which is defined in hopelessly broad terms as any group of two or more people who intend to kill or inflict harm upon others.
When we stratified metformin use by exposure duration, use of short duration was not associated with a materially altered OR, whereas long-term use of metformin, defined as ≥30 prescriptions, was associated with an adjusted OR of 0.63 (0.39–1.00) for developing breast cancer, based on 33 case patients and their control patients compared with nonuse.
In Attorney-General v PYA Quarries Ltd, it was defined by Romer LJ as any act or omission "which materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of life of a class of Her Majesty's subjects".
We believe it would materially improve the quality and comparability of isopach maps and volume estimates if defined procedures and an accepted algorithm are applied by the community.
In an additional secondary analysis, we adjusted for potential confounding factors defined at age 70 rather than at baseline, but this did not materially change our findings.
Thus, in the case of AAS, creativity can be defined as 'the process of perceiving, exploiting, and 'generating' novel affordances during socially and materially situated activities' [71].
Indeed, insofar as Gassendi considers pleasure to be a materially-realized phenomenon, he shares Hobbes's view of the morally correct as something that can be defined in physical terms.
