Collocations withsearch
These are words often used in combination withsearch.
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binary search
In this paper, we will focus on recursive trees and binary search trees as underlying classes of trees.
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comprehensive search
A comprehensive search of major biomedical and specialist complementary and alternative medicine databases was conducted.
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constant search
Given that globalisation means ever sharper competition, the constant search for lower costs will not disappear.
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continuing search for
In their continuing search for best value for money.
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desperate search
All of these movements were manifestations of a desperate search for something to believe in.
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exhaustive search
Note that an exhaustive search has combinatorial complexity!
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extensive search
The parents claimed to have done an extensive search and trial of commercially available products.
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faceted search
By selecting or deselecting items in a set of columns, the user can iteratively refine a faceted search until they get the desired result.
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frantic search
A frantic search is being made to try to save money, and one can understand that.
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fruitless search
At the moment it is engaged in a fruitless search for some form of public ownership and it cannot even decide on the candidate industries.
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heuristic search
The system also provides explanation and heuristic search for the construction and solution of models.
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intensive search
These three variables were chosen for analysis only after an intensive search for meaningful independent variates.
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internet search
Each chapter has recommended further reading, and very sensible internet search keywords (rather than websites which come and go).
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manual search
In the old days researchers had to do a manual search of a corpus to find instances of clefts, a very laborious task.
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organic search
It is based on a guessing the relative weight of the first organic search result over the other results for the same keywords.
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personalized search
We want to illustrate it by means of the example of a personalized search engine.
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quick search
Combinatorial chemistry allows a quick search of many novel compounds for a property of interest.
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random search
Under random search, every new platform generated is considered one unit of campaign length.
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search capability
I marvelled at the search capability of this flying electronic laboratory.
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search committee
Therefore, the work of the search committee can as well be done by the selection committee itself.
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search criteria
The reason for the levels of subcategorisation is to provide for alternative search criteria.
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search function
The following shows an example use of the breadth first search function to create a list of vertices in breadth-first order.
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search strategy
There were 1,666 records recovered through the search strategy mentioned above.
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search term
The search term of diabetes in conjunction with combinations of the following terms: knowledge, patient information, information needs, education, educational needs and patient education were used.
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semantic search
It is problems like this with keyword-based search that are driving the quest for semantic search engines.
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systematic search
Prediction of the docked complex by a complete systematic search.
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talent search
She mentored a 2007 science talent search finalist.
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thorough search
A thorough search in the early evening failed to show any ivory gulls at all.
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underwater search
As explored in this study, the underwater search missions can exploit the nature of cooperation between autonomous agents effectively.
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unreasonable search
Questions about what constitutes an "unreasonable search" get delegated to officials with the best knowledge of local circumstances, practices, and standards.
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visual search
On the efficiency of visual selective attention : efficient visual search leads to inefficient distractor rejection.
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