2 where the 'survey stations' share the same conditions (same length, same section width, same degree of slope etc.), but are preceded and succeeded by different degrees of
tortuousness. Two attempts were made to choose the dependent variable.
Low
tortuousness of the RCA and large artery diameter allowed easy performance of the procedure.
The development of retropharyngeal carotid arteries has been attributed to (1) atherosclerotic changes in the carotid artery that lead to
tortuousness of the vessel and (2) congenital anomalies associated with velocardiofacial syndrome, spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, and cleft palate.
(16) In terms of external security, it is not clear what a multilateral umbrella could add to the package apart from all the chicanery and
tortuousness in decision making that are now patently clear in the case of Afghanistan.
She finds a partial solution to the
tortuousness of this saga's plot by suggesting that the seven 'documentary' verses contribute to an impression of historicity, and structure the narrative by pointing up stages in the development of the community, while the thirty 'dialogue' verses give voice to characters otherwise marginal.
The same delays can still be attributed to the same mind-numbing slowness of the judges, the
tortuousness of grasping lawyers and the painfully protracted procedures of the courts.
Nonetheless, it is not difficult to find in his music chordal progressions whose unexpected
tortuousness seems to produce curious harmonic equivalents of the poetics of concettismo fashionable in those years.
Mackail sensed a "cramped, gritty, discontinuous quality" in the writing, "a certain stiffness,
tortuousness, or cumbrousness ...
When contemporary Kantian ethicists and Kant scholars do turn to this question, their exposition is predictably tortuous; yet too few have asked whether this
tortuousness might indicate that there is something amiss with prevailing understandings of maxims.