Sentence examples for rigid number from inspiring English sources

It seems that the proposals for the new ED criteria in DSM-V are beginning to embrace a transdiagnostic spectrum approach by relaxing the rigid number of binges and purges required, removing rigid diagnostic language (e.g. intense fear, refusal) and by extending the impulsive extreme of the ED spectrum by including BED.

It is evident that a rigid adherence to a fixed number of options regardless of the quality of options is counter-productive in terms of the quality of the psychometric information to be obtained from test administration.

Obviously if the graph is not rigid, infinite number of realizations are possible through continuous deformations.

The chemical nature of the coordinating ligands is essential for creating thermodynamic ion selectivity in flexible molecules (such as 18c6), but as the binding site becomes more rigid, the number of ligands (as in ion channels) and the reduction of thermal fluctuations (as in amino-acid transporters) can become important.

A comparison of results on wave trapping by porous barriers over flat and undulated bed reveals that for the same distance between the porous barrier and rigid wall, more number of times optimum reflection occurs in case of undulated bed.

We identified the fact that there is a potential problem with allocated beds which may have an impact on the quality of care provided, thus more cautious service planning is necessary in order to avoid forfeiting quality of care and service improvement by being too rigid about the number of beds necessary to provide a high quality service at all times.

The changes can be thought of in terms of a scale where the normal membrane is assigned a value of zero, a fluid membrane in minus numbers and a rigid one in plus numbers.

(It is possible to argue that Jack Welch's GE is a conglomerate, but his rigid insistence on being number one or number two in each of its businesses and Welch's own managerial talents make GE simply the exception that tests the rule).

I am not upset, though, because I embrace the cold, rigid truth of numbers.

"Unlike the rigid columns of numbers that make up a bank ledger, status is always a moving target, because it is defined by ongoing comparisons to others," Payne writes.

A modified version of the cantilever bending beam method is employed to subject a number of rigid and semi-rigid rod fibres to a gradient of axial compressive and tensile stresses.