heterogeneous nature

collocation in English

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heterogeneous
adjective
uk
/ˌhet.ər.əˈdʒiː.ni.əs/us
/ˌhet̬.ə.roʊˈdʒiː.ni.əs/
consisting of parts or things that are very different from ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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These prospects have been frustrated, however, by the disorganized andheterogeneousnatureof development in culture.
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Heterogeneousnatureof the ingestion of bloodinhabiting parasites by their vectors : quantitative description and interpretation.
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However, it was difficult to reach absolutely firm conclusions because of the small number of studies involved and theheterogeneousnatureof the end points.
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This therapeutic resistance has largely been attributed to the complexheterogeneousnatureof this disease.
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Yet theheterogeneousnatureof these various schemes strengthened rather than weakened the commitment to rethinking the factory.
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One suggested reason for the failure lies with theheterogeneousnatureof these disorders, whereby different genes are independently causing similar phenotypes.
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Clearly, theheterogeneousnatureof this disease suggests varying etiologies and thus would necessitate varying treatment strategies.
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What makes these results particularly interesting is the large andheterogeneousnatureof the television news audience.
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The present paper documents the veryheterogeneousnatureof race mixing considered from this viewpoint.
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On the one hand, the therapeutic vaccines were biological substances of an inherentlyheterogeneousnature.
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Integrative parsimony involves acknowledging the generallyheterogeneousnatureof psychological mechanisms.
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The relatively relaxed fold-change criterion was chosen because of the assumedheterogeneousnatureof biofilms.
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However, in order to study its origin and evolution we cannot ignore itsheterogeneousnature.
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Robins also adds a final chapter about theheterogeneousnatureof the insurrection that is welcome, yet that also works against his basic arguments.
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The dynamic andheterogeneousnatureof these environments is discussed and the special considerations for parallel applications are identified.
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The author observes that theheterogeneousnatureof the southern land, its people, and struggles to define and control southern identity render comparisons inevitable.
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Given the highlyheterogeneousnatureof prostate cancer, it is of interest to classify prostate cancers based on altered patterns of gene expression.
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In addition, these findings further support the notion that divergent molecular pathways exist during melanoma development, which would explain theheterogeneousnatureof this malignancy that has been observed clinically.
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This procedure allowed us to account for theheterogeneousnatureof children's reading abilities and identify homogeneous subgroups of children that displayed similar patterns of strengths and weaknesses.
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A remarkable aspect of these applications will be theirheterogeneousnature, in the sense that they will require the integration of techniques from mathematics, computer science, and logic.
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