top-down control
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftop-downandcontrol
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top-down
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌtɒpˈdaʊn/us/ˌtɑːpˈdaʊn/
used to refer to a situation in which decisions are made by a few people in authority rather than by the people who are affected by ...
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control
noun
uk/kənˈtrəʊl/us/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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(Definition oftop-downandcontrolfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They can also exerttop-downcontrolover their language mode.
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Executive function is taxed when conscious,top-downcontrolis needed.
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The result is facilitation oftop-downcontrolof behavior as well as altering of behavior in response to relevant changes in context.
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Therefore, amphibian predation likely alters the densities and communities of litter invertebrates, and can indirectly assert atop-downcontrolon the litter decomposition.
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First, governance can occur through hierarchies, a major dimension of this being traditional forms oftop-downcontroland regulation through the state.
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The authors concluded that, similar to the processing of other stimulus categories, the processing of facial emotional expression is undertop-downcontrol.
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This perhaps reflects the greater freedom fromtop-downcontrolinherent in such activity.
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This research provides direct tests of the hypotheses that predators in diverse systems have top-downcontroleffects on multiple ecosystem processes and that these effects differ with spatial scale.
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Impaired divided attention capacity can be explained either by reduced attentional resources or impaired activation and/ortop-downcontrolof attentional resources by the central executive.
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They have held the fort for 26 years against a trend towards increasingtop-downcontrolon an extremely limited budget.
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The studios efficient,top-downcontrolover all stages of their product enabled a new and ever-growing level of lavish production and technical sophistication.
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Spiders exhibittop-downcontrolon generalist herbivore grasshoppers, causing them to hide in and forage on a competitively dominant plant species.
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She contrasts it with stasis, a philosophy that favorstop-downcontroland regulation and is marked by desire to maintain the present state of affairs.
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This suggests that the cueing effect is not affected by the predictive nature of the cue, and may not be due totop-downcontrol.
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Evidence has pointed totop-downcontrolcaused by human disturbances as the primary agent driving die-off.
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In other words, related directly to a person viewing art from an aesthetic perception due to thetop-downcontrolof their cognition.
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