He is an erudite but adaptable companion, tart and genial, promiscuous in experience yet reliable in temperament.
Finnhorses are lively, with both a reliable and alert temperament.
The animal has to be very well trained, reliable, obedient and have the right temperament.
A widely used and reliable measurement of human personality is Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI; [30]).
However, the results also point out that further research is necessary (a) to examine the links between attention and effortful control and child psychopathology in prospective research designs, and (b) to develop reliable and valid instruments for assessing these regulative temperament traits in children of various ages.
WASHINGTON — Republican senators sparred with Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday over racial bias, judicial activism and temperament as she presented herself as a reliable follower of precedent rather than a jurist shaped by gender and ethnicity, as some of her past speeches suggested.
More research in this area may yield more reliable and valid scales and tests to assess these regulative temperament factors [ 48].
This is a 240-item, five-point Likert scale, a reliable and valid questionnaire that measures seven dimensions of personality: four dimensions of temperament (i.e. harm avoidance (HA), novelty seeking (NS), reward dependence (RD), and persistence (P)) and three character traits (i.e. self-directedness (SD), cooperativeness (CO), and self-transcendence (ST)) [ 15].
The TCI-R [ 27] is a 240-item, 5-point Likert-scale, reliable, and valid questionnaire that measures, as in the original TCI version [ 28], four temperament (Harm Avoidance, Novelty Seeking, Reward Dependence, and Persistence) and three character dimensions (Self-Directedness, Cooperativeness, and Self-Transcendence).
Is there a reliable "transmission mechanism" between the levers the Bank can pull and the results it cares about?By training and temperament, Bank staff have tended to view government as a practical art.
