selection mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofselectionandmechanism
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selection
noun
uk/sɪˈlek.ʃən/us/səˈlek.ʃən/
the act of choosing someone ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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(Definition ofselectionandmechanismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The third part proposes aselectionmechanismbased on inhibition.
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That depends on a particularselectionmechanismthat could be estimated from time series data.
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By contrast, our model uses a separateselectionmechanismto determine which locations of the visual input have consistent disparity information.
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This reformulation of the lexicalselectionmechanismis extremely important.
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Individuals in each new generation may be much different from the parent generation, but only the most appropriate ones survive due to theselectionmechanism.
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First, on an embodied account, a more efficientselectionmechanismis available that does not depend on storing and later retrieving "unwanted" tags.
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The alternative in this case is to use a rank-basedselectionmechanism. 13.
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The language specificity of the lexicalselectionmechanismhas been recently addressed in two different studies in which the picture-word interference paradigm was used.
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Deciding on which argument to actually send is the responsibility of an argumentselectionmechanism.
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The most obvious alternativeselectionmechanismaffecting which cultures become nations is exogenous rather than endogenous.
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Of course, institutions are also important at the micro-level as aselectionmechanismfor agents and as a source of performance incentives for those selected.
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Although the language-specific lexicalselectionmechanismprovides a simple and effective solution to the hard problem, there are concerns with their proposal.
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Because of this assumption these models require a lexicalselectionmechanismto decide which of the activated lexical representations should be chosen for further processing.
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T he above comparison seems to be unfair because default logic has noselectionmechanism.
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This view of theselectionmechanismhas a distinct advantage.
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The problem is that language intrusions might have a different origin than a failure in the lexicalselectionmechanism.
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He invokes salience as an equilibriumselectionmechanism, but (apart from a few incidental remarks) only in explaining how conventions reproduce themselves.
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The first of these proposes that the lexicalselectionmechanismonly considers one lexicon, the target lexicon, when selecting lexical nodes.
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Theselectionmechanismproposed is remarkably simple and quite general.
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