Sentence examples for positive item from inspiring English sources

Whether a gay journalist writing for the Gawker media blog Valleywag should have published a positive item stating Thiel was gay back in 2007, when he was only out to family, friends and colleagues, is a matter of ethical opinion.

Given n items with at most d of them having a particular property (referred as positive items), a test on a selected subset of them is positive if and only if the subset contains at least one positive item.

To do this, we choose an arbitrary subset P⊆Vn called a pool, the outcome is positive when there is at least one positive item in this pool, and negative otherwise.

An important generalization of the problem is to consider the case that an individual positive item cannot make a test positive, but a combination of them (referred as positive subsets) can do.

However, the broker Peel Hunt left its forecasts for the company unchanged and said: "Overall, [it's] a small positive item today after a torrid few weeks of adverse trading".

On the contrary, expressions like IN MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION tones up the modal value of the main clause by the positive item PROFESSIONAL.

The object is to determine the set of positive items by means of group testing.

But the bank also booked a total of €1.4 billion in charges, in part offset by €758 million worth of positive items.

The 42-year-old publisher goes so far as to declare himself bored with snark and appreciative of, yes, positive items.

This study explored the feasibility and validity of including positive items in a commonly used outcome measure the Caregiver Strain Index (CSI).

Suppose Vn="{v1≺v2≺⋯≺vn} is a linearly ordered set in which each item has a positive or negative state, and there are at most d positive items, forming a consecutive set under the order ≺.