Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion of the "descriptive heritability" about which I have been writing, and the second quantity, which I shall call "predictive heritability." While descriptive heritability is that proportion of the variation in a population ascribably to all genetic differences, predictive heritability is the proportion of variation ascribable to a special fraction of the genetic variation. It is always smaller than the descriptive heritability, and it is very difficult to estimate in any human population. Only one, worthless, attempt to do so is known to me. Now, all of the predictions made about the effects of differential patterns of fertility, assortative mating...
Jail Clinic. Prounion physicians like Harness believe that organizing is an idea whose tune has come. Though unions still represent only a small fraction of the country's more than 300,000 practicing physicians, their strength is increasing inexorably. The A.M. A., which is frankly alarmed by the trend, estimates that anywhere from 25,000 to 30,000 doctors now pay dues to unions of various types. Most of them belong to the American Federation of Physicians and Dentists, which was founded last January with 7,500 members and now has a national membership...
...scope of federal authority is now so vast and diverse that no member of Congress or executive branch department head can be aware of, let alone be able to exert any meaningful influence over, more than a fraction of even those issues and programs within his or her particular sphere of specialized responsibility...
...Mass.) who conducted a similar investigation, Abourezk found at least $20 million in direct aid to police and prisons, with other "public safety support funds" probably hidden elsewhere in the budget. Over 250 Vietnamese policemen were to be trained this year in the United States--a small fraction of the 120,000 Vietnamese in the National Police, the largest South Vietnamese police agency, but a large increase over the 43 policemen trained in the United States the year before. In the meantime, Vietnamese continue to die in skirmishes between Saigon and NLF troops, and Vietnamese prisoners from the Saigon government...
...recent directory lists 259 Jesus communities and 49 newspapers in North America, but compilers claim that these are only a fraction of the Jesus groups. Many youths have blended into conventional churches or inconspicuous little house fellowships. Others have departed for rural areas...