The three words constituting this term hint at the fundamental physical nature of these entities and, at the same time, imply an important dichotomy of primary aims.
It has for some time been proposed as a genuine diagnosis (see Harvey review), 6 and recently the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Work Group recognised that the previous dichotomy of primary versus secondary insomnia is not evidence based.
Unfortunately, this did not allow analysis of the inequity gradient of mortality beyond this dichotomy (e.g., incomplete primary education, completed primary school, incomplete secondary education, and completed secondary education and above).
Interestingly, many upper ontologies adopt the endurant/perdurant dichotomy for this primary classification, although in somewhat different ways.
Similar concerns were echoed by some locally based researchers who reported that while the provision of health care services is not the primary goal of research, the dichotomy between research and other social issues should not be stringently applied in poor settings where people have high unmet health care needs.
The observation periods were divided at 2 years in the multivariate analyses, because the number of patients who died of the primary disease became equal with this dichotomy.
The primary problem with the proximate-ultimate dichotomy is not that it is ambiguous, but that it channels thinking, leading to the neglect of alternative hypotheses.
The apportionment of delegates from California's Republican and Democratic primaries on Feb. 5 starkly demonstrates this dichotomy.
Thus the Siracusa principles offer to resolve apparent dichotomies between public health's primary mandate of protecting population health and the human rights imperative to protect individual rights [ 39].
It really should read "The Tea Party Is Dead / Long Live The Tea Party," since it represents a clear dichotomy in how pundits reacted to the primary results.
