agglutination, morphem, socioeconomic, BMI

CNN International

People of high socioeconomic status experienced cardiovascular benefits, but their lower socioeconomic peers did not, a study showed

The Mediterranean diet doesn't benefit everyone

CNN.COM

IT was the peculiar genius of Paul Celan to be able to strip language of its normal socioeconomic occasions without cutting the lines that lead language to the heart. For all the celebrated difficulty of Celan's poems - dense constellations of morphemes, word elements packed like molecules - they are hard only when you try to think about them. At first touch (what William Carlos Williams called, in a noble phrase, the poem's ''intention to impress'') Celan's poems come to us from a warm sense of life, of paying attention and taking care.



At the start of the study, consistent breakfast eaters had an average body mass index of 21.7, intermittent eaters 22.5, and those who never had breakfast 23.4. Over the next five years, B.M.I. increased in exactly the same pattern. The relationship persisted even after controlling for age, sex, race, socioeconomic status, smoking and concerns about diet and weight.
The authors acknowledge that the study depends on self-reports of weight and eating habits, which are not always reliable, and that even though they controlled for many variables, the study was observational, showing only an association between breakfast eating habits and body mass, not a causal relationship.

socioeconomic 
adjective
related to the differences between groups of people caused mainly by their financial situation:
socioeconomic groups/groupings
socioeconomic factors
College Board officials said the difficulties arise more from socioeconomic than from ethnic differences.

body mass indexn. (Abbr. BMI)
A measurement of the relative percentages of fat and muscle mass in the human body, in which weight in kilograms is divided by height in meters and the result used as an index of obesity.
兒童及青少年肥胖定義(BMI)
理想體重（公斤） = （正常範圍 BMI ）×身高²（公尺 ² ）
http://food.doh.gov.tw/children/a-02.htm

association v causal 統計學上的"相關" vs "因果"

ag·glu·ti·na·tion (ə-glūt'n-ā'shən)
n.

1. The act or process of agglutinating; adhesion of distinct parts.
2. A clumped mass of material formed by agglutination. Also called agglutinate.
3. Physiology. The clumping together of red blood cells or bacteria, usually in response to a particular antibody.
4. Linguistics. The formation of words from morphemes that retain their original forms and meanings with little change during the combination process.

agglutinate

[動] 〔lútnèit〕 (他)(自)

1 接着［膠着(こうちゃく)］ させる［する］.

2 《言語学》〈語・構文などを〉膠着によって形成する.

3 〈赤血球・細菌を［が］〉凝集させる［する］.

━━[名] 〔lútnt〕 接着物, 膠着物.

ag・glù・ti・ná・tion

[名]

ag・glú・ti・nà・tive

[形]

morpheme[mor・pheme]

• 発音記号[mɔ'ːrfiːm]
• 
  

[名]《言語学》形態素：意味をもつ最小の言語単位. ⇒FORMATIVE[名]2

mor・phém・ic

[形]