The preponderance of four new arrivals sustains Booker's claim to identify whatever is new and interesting in the literary culture of the day.
One of the best aspects of living in Turtle Bay was the preponderance of three- or four-story buildings that housed charming restaurants and pubs.
There are situations where a major source of over dispersion is a preponderance of zero counts, and the resulting over dispersion cannot be modeled accurately with the negative binomial model.
However, they stand in a variable and inverse relationship to each other, where the relative preponderance of one function is offset by the relative subordination of the remaining ones, but at no time can any particular function be cancelled out altogether (ST, p. 98).
By contrast, ascites generally inhibits expression of IFN-γ, TNF-α, CCL4, and CD107a by T cells, resulting in a preponderance of zero- or monofunctional T cells.
Hormone level differences between men and women are accepted as underlaying human sexual dimorphism and are believed to explain the preponderance of one sex over the other for numerous diseases: cardiomyopathy [2], [3], multiple sclerosis [4] and Lupus erythematosus [5].
Therefore, a major source of overdispersion in these situations is a preponderance of zero counts.
The "Hearing" and "Other" items did not load on either factor, reflecting the preponderance of zero scores in this sample.
Only two of the 15 items ("Hearing" and "Other") achieved loadings of <0.4 on both components mainly due to a preponderance of zero scores (90% and 85%, respectively).
A similar preponderance of domains (eight out of eleven) with either the middle 'x' alone, or both the middle and fourth residues being aspartate (or glutamate) is found in cluster IV.
Disease or physical disharmony is caused by an imbalance or undue preponderance of these two forces in the body, and the goal of Chinese medicine is to bring the yin and the yang back into balance with each other, thus restoring the person to health.
