sinistrality

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sinistrality

(ˌsɪnɪˈstrælɪtɪ)

the state of being sinistral

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sinistrality

the condition of being left-handed. — sinistral, adj.

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sinistrality - preference for using the left hand

left-handedness

handedness, laterality - the property of using one hand more than the other

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Summary Table in Relating to Demographic Characteristics along with Mean and Standart Deviations of Screening Test Scores of the Participants (N= 317) Demographic Characteristics Age [bar.X]=71.08 (7.83) Age range=60-92 Gender Female=149 (47%), Male=168 (53%) Education level Primary (0-5)=107 (33.8%), Secondary-high (6-11)=107 (33.8%), University-post (12 and over)=103 (32.4%) Native language Turkish=317 (100%) Hand preference Right hand=290 (91.5%), Left hand=7 (2.2%), Ambidextrous=20 (6.3%) Sinistrality in first degree relatives Exist=54 (%17), Absent=263 (%83) Mean and Standard Deviations of Screening Test Scores MOCA score 23.57 (2.25) FAQ score 0.15 (0.46) GDS score 3.54 (3.41) Table 2.

Adaptation and Norm Determination Study of the Boston Naming Test for Healthy Turkish Elderly

It was created to bring to light certain people's sinistrality along with raising awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed in a predominantly right-handed world.

Tendulkar is always 'right' despite being 'left-handed'

Also known as Sinistrality (derived from the Latin word sinister meaning "left" as well as "unlucky") the issue of left-handedness has been studied theoretically and empirically for over a century without any definite resolution.

Left-handedness and artistic abilities: a first look

(Many works show him concluding not simply with the terminal line in a series of repeating signs, but by breaking the final trace midway.) Also relevant, one suspects, are the etymological associations of sinistrality with awkwardness--the idea of the "gauche" that Roland Barthes would soon make central to his account of Cy Twombly's work--on the one hand (those repeating, deliberately "artless" signs), and femininity on the other (the gendered connotation of their pinkish tone).

Giorgio Griffa: Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve

First record of sinistrality in Poecilopsetta plinthus (Jordan & Starks), a pleuranectid fish of Japan.

Inversion ocular en Paralichthys adspersus (Steindachner, 1867) lenguado de ojos chicos (Pleuronectiformes, paralichthyidae): un caso del ambiente y un analisis en ejemplares cultivados

For many years, researchers have also attempted to determine whether or not the left-handers in the human population have any special or good qualities that might be considered as an advantage of sinistrality.

Left-handed people in a right-handed world: a phenomenological study

* Joshua Goodman, Harvard University, "The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure, and Human Capital Accumulation"

Education Program

Left-Handers Day is an annual event when left-handers celebrate the advantages their sinistrality brings.

Cack-handed? Will the latest anti-discrimination legislation make it a punishable offence to refer to us 'left-handers' as cack-handed? Asks John Rodgers

Sinistrality in the southern and tawny mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae, Scapteriscus).

Resonant sound production in Copiphora gorgonensis (Tettigoniidae: Copiphorini), an endemic species from Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona, Colombia

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