Examples of minus

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Of course, not all respondents were successful in accepting the minuses of their family conditions ; those who remained bitter were generally dissatisfied and lonely.
Pluses and minuses must alternate, since the path will alternate between hemispheres.
To highlight the valence distribution, all components but the pluses and minuses have been removed from the diagram.
The -1 values encode the decision 'defect' and are referred to as minuses.
On the other hand, pairs give the opportunity for two minuses to be changed at one step.
When this edge is chosen, both minuses in the pair become pluses.
Moreover, while the minus is always identifiable and indisputable, the plus is often not identifiable separately or not identifiable as a consequence of the minus.
We mention here that the minus sign is taken in since the displacement is positive by definition, while the velocity is negative.
The excess of a graph, as defined in, equals the complexity minus the number of complex components.
The northward displacement, v, of is the height of the terminal point minus the height of the initial point.
Perhaps, some allowance is made for overlapping group memberships, and yet each membership, again, seems to be a plus/minus parameter.
We also show how to use the triadic odometer augmented with plus and minus signs to track octagons.
The main dependent score was hits minus false alarms.
Under-achievement is here defined as the sum of the scores on the verbal reasoning tests minus the scores on the two achievement tests.
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