It all depends where on the spectrum of these traits each individual is starting from.

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Insurers should also be prohibited from setting rates based on pre-existing conditions--just as they now are prohibited from taking individual's genetic traits into account.

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In football, this might be different play calling (Bill Walsh and the West Coast Offense) or traits of individual position players ( Lawrence Taylor, the Tampa 2 Defense).

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Although their traits and abilities vary depending on the individual, changes to their daily routine can be very disruptive, shattering their feeling of security and triggering unexpected behavior, experts say.

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At the level of individual firms, a culture of innovation consists of three important traits: an embrace of risk, a willingness to cannibalize successful entities, and a focus on the future.

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They then subdivided these children into those with psychopathic traits and those without and asked, in each case, whether an individual's twin showed bad behaviour, psychopathy, or both.

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InfoGlide's Similarity Search Engine converts data into a hierarchical format so that all transactions of an individual can be called up, as well as those of people with similar but not identical traits.

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These traits were competence, dominance, likeability, facial maturity (in other words, did the individual have an adult-looking face or a baby-face) and trustworthiness.

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