functional specialization

collocation in English

meaningsoffunctionalandspecialization

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functional
adjective
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/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
designed to be practical and useful rather ...
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specialization
noun[C or U]
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/ˌspeʃ.əl.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌspeʃ.ə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/
a particular area of knowledge or the process of becoming an expert in a ...
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(Definition offunctionalandspecializationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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An alternative approach would be to identify the difference as a furtherfunctionalspecializationof epistemic markers in narratives.
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This expansion of marketable scale permittedfunctionalspecializationin several industries.
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Thus, in this example offunctionalspecializationconstraints from a variety of sources combine to ensure that processing of a biologically important class of stimulus takes place within the cortex.
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This is consistent with the view thatfunctionalspecializationcan "select a home" from several of the areas activated by the stimulus class at an early age.
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Functional neuroimaging, used in conjunction with experimental cognitive tasks, has been extremely successful in establishingfunctionalspecializationas a principle of brain organization in man.
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Atran's commentary is a useful reminder that organic complexity is not, by itself, evidence forfunctionalspecialization.
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One part of this problem was the officials' lack offunctionalspecialization: administrative self-sufficiency applied to everyone.
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Stemming from phrenology, this theory supportsfunctionalspecialization, suggesting the brain has different modules that are domain specific in function.
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There is now growing levels offunctionalspecializationand linkages occuring within the system of secondary cities.
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He speculated that increasing levels of broken symmetry in many-body systems correlates with increasing complexity andfunctionalspecialization.
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In modern societies, a high level of structural differentiation,functionalspecialization, and autonomy of the economic system from government is a major contributor to industrial-commercial growth and prosperity.
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It is not currently known if thisfunctionalspecializationis unique to humans as complementary experiments have only been performed with macaque monkeys and not apes.
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Sperry received the prize for his discoveries concerning thefunctionalspecializationof the cerebral hemispheres.
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Humanlike structural left-right brain asymmetries are therefore present in great apes without any related functional specializations for language.
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This appears as a clearfunctionalspecialization, given the differential role of the two populations of sensory neurons in detecting chemical stimuli of different type and molecular weight.
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In organisms that have evolvedfunctionalspecialization, an important division of labor may exist over reproduction: only a small fraction of cells contribute to the next generation.
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Functional specializations of the visual brain are already known.
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