major determinant
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajoranddeterminant
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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determinant
noun[C]
uk/dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nənt/us/dɪˈtɝː.mɪ.nənt/
formal
something that controls or affects what happens in a ...
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Although it seems clear that general intellectual impairment is amajordeterminantof linguistic impairment in schizophrenia, this may not be the whole story.
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This is amajordeterminantwhen the regurgitant orifice is fixed.
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Diabetes is amajordeterminantof health in the elderly and makes very significant demands on systems of health care.
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Amajordeterminantfor an area's ability to process a certain type of information is the inputs that it receives.
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This is the substitution of social class for geography as themajordeterminantof differences in the length of life.
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A nested parasite species subset pattern in tropical fish : host asmajordeterminantof parasite infracommunity structure.
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By regression analysis the presence of a fenestrated patch was themajordeterminantin the reduction in the amount and duration of postoperative effusion.
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Geographical distance between the older person and their children was considered amajordeterminantof whether they could exercise generativity.
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The evidence suggests that income is amajordeterminantof health.
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The frequency of affective episodes is amajordeterminantof morbidity and an important factor in the planning of management of care.
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It is, though, the latter factor which appears to have been themajordeterminantof the result.
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A nested species subset pattern in tropical fish : host asmajordeterminantof parasite infracommunity structure.
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As described below, the host-parasite interaction (the quality of the habitat patch for the parasite) is amajordeterminantof this.
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The distribution of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitter receptors is amajordeterminantof the response proper ties of any neurone.
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As such, the statistical properties of the maintained discharge of a neuron are amajordeterminantof its information processing capabilities.
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Specific investments are amajordeterminantof path-dependent comparative advantage and hence of the dichotomy between counterfactual ex ante efficiency and factual ex post efficiency.
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The previous example suggests that the time lag is amajordeterminantof stock price fluctuations in a noise trader framework.
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A secondmajordeterminantis knowing who the intended audience is and how they intend to use the report.
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Themajordeterminantof bone density, however, was physical activity during childhood and adolescence.
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Reckoning one's position to the ancestor was amajordeterminantof social and political status.
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