Collocations withspecificity
These are words often used in combination withspecificity.
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asset specificity
Good operational measures of, and data on, asset specificity are notoriously elusive.
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cultural specificity
We tend to conflate the difference between the two, and thus lose the cultural specificity of ' pop/rock'.
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degree of specificity
Like internal efficacy, this orientation concerns one's self-confidence in a political environment, but it does so with a much higher degree of specificity.
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domain specificity
It is often a topic of tension to balance the domain specificity versus the portability of a natural language grammar.
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high specificity
An interesting corollary, deserving fur ther testing, is that "high specificity and low specificity can be equated with higher-level vocabulary and basic-level vocabulary, respectively" (129).
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historical specificity
The historical specificity of nationalism has important consequences for the explanation of national styles.
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host specificity
Against all odds: explaining high host specificity in dispersal-prone parasites.
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lack of specificity
First, previously reported modest correlations and lack of specificity may be due in part to diagnostic heterogeneity within groups of depressed children.
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level of specificity
This agglutination exhibits species preferentially, although the level of specificity is less than that of binding or fertilisation (see below).
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substrate specificity
However, in many cases their physiological targets and the mechanisms by which they achieve substrate specificity remain unknown.
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