Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay (present-day Mumbai).
Furthermore, given previous findings showing that 'primacy' memory is enhanced by physiological arousal, we predicted that reduced arousal produced by alcohol would have the opposite effect and impair primacy memory relative to the middle or 'recency' sections of the narrative.
This very specific ('clean') cohort was selected to ensure that the patient group was relatively homogeneous with respect to diagnosis (all IHD), primacy of the diagnosis relative to other diagnoses coded for that admission (principal diagnosis only) and history of previous admission for IHD (first-ever), even though it reduced the number of DAMA events.
Until recently, the predominant European royal families felt compelled to maintain their primacy by marrying relatives such as first and second cousins.
Hereby, the domain of high politics4 is generally regulated by the realist tradition of thought with the primacy of the national interest, the focus on relative gains and relative power.
For Collingwood, by contrast, there is no level of explanation that has ontological primacy because all explanations, including causal explanations, are relative to subject matter.
(2004), for instance, emphasize the primacy of institutions among the factors that influence the relative affluence of societies.
2 In addition, for survival outcomes, reporting should "….state the target difference as an absolute and/or relative difference…… If both an absolute and a relative difference are provided, clarify if either takes primacy in terms of the sample size calculation".
The old debate over the primacy of these factors, overall biological or psychological, is gradually being replaced by a pragmatic model considering all the relative contributions [ 8].
