Collocations withmechanism
These are words often used in combination withmechanism.
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accountability mechanism
For most of the twentieth century, professional accountability can be seen as the fallback accountability mechanism.
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actual mechanism
This quasi-static control environment requires several process steps between the process application and actual mechanism control.
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adaptation mechanism
They concluded that the adaptation mechanism they examined was cor tical.
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adaptive mechanism
It is worth recalling that the behaviorist school of psychology also explained human and animal behavior by a backward-looking and unthinking adaptive mechanism, namely, reinforcement.
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adequate mechanism
Although structural mapping via analogical representations may be an adequate mechanism of cognitive representation, it will not suffice to explain representation as such.
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adjustment mechanism
In an error correction model, the coefficient for the error correction mechanism measures the strength of this adjustment mechanism.
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administrative mechanism
They were an administrative mechanism, and did not constitute any form of renewable lease for the site.
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allocation mechanism
As long as this (somewhat hidden) allocation mechanism still exists, no amount of regulation will be able to control inequities.
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alternative mechanism
Specific targeting of proteins to the flagella of trichomonads thus may be modulated by an alternative mechanism.
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appropriate mechanism
However, the draft code was not considered to be the appropriate mechanism in this respect.
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attentional mechanism
The alternative assumption of a unitary attentional mechanism as a common cause for the reported results must remain highly speculative until tested.
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authentication mechanism
For instance, a bare encryption algorithm will provide no authentication mechanism, nor any explicit message integrity checking.
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automatic mechanism
Further, there are various logic-based languages for which a working interpreter or an automatic mechanism for animating specifications exists.
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basic mechanism
A basic mechanism will already allow in situ wh-phrases in multiple questions to receive scope.
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binding mechanism
The next key point is to exploit the binding mechanism of the implementation language using higher-order abstract syntax.
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biochemical mechanism
So the search was for some fundamental biochemical mechanism which would allow an otherwise meaningless array of responses to be understood.
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biological mechanism
First, it suggests a biological mechanism for explaining the relation between stress and psychopathology.
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brain mechanism
They recognized, of course, that any innate behavioral tendency would need to be realized in a brain mechanism of one sort or another.
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built-in mechanism
In particular, tile logic extends rewriting logic with a built-in mechanism, based on observable effects, for coordinating local rewrites.
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catalytic mechanism
The study of seed-specific chitinases has contributed significantly to current knowledge of this ubiquitous protein family, including antifungal properties, structure, specificity and catalytic mechanism.
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causal mechanism
If methane is a causal mechanism, the repetition of the negative carbon excursions could be accounted for by multiple releases of methane.
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cellular mechanism
This might be achieved through a simple cellular mechanism such as increasing and decreasing levels of shunting inhibition.
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clockwork mechanism
For example, a complex clockwork mechanism was simulated, and the visual motion was synchronised with a set of sounds obtained by the same computational structures.
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cognitive mechanism
Our understanding of the neural underpinnings of theory of mind awaits the development of a computational account of the cognitive mechanism.
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compensatory mechanism
This interactive and compensatory mechanism may account in part for variations in findings, depending on the age of the animal at the time of study.
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coordination mechanism
We thus introduced the notions of explicit plan representation and a central coordination mechanism into a behavior-based robot.
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coping mechanism
It might also interfere with denial as a successful coping mechanism, both processes resulting in a higher level of intrusion symptoms.
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coupling mechanism
One such coupling mechanism is via gap junctions.
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defensive mechanism
This duality evokes fear, which is split off in a defensive mechanism.
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delicate mechanism
The administration of the steel industry is a delicate mechanism.
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delivery mechanism
Among them, the most severe causes were water scarcity followed by the water delivery mechanism.
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detailed mechanism
In spite of a huge amount of published information, the detailed mechanism of both sequence recognition and strand exchange remains unclear.
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development mechanism
It also indicates that syntactic constraint implementation is not a once-and-for-all development mechanism.
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diffusion mechanism
Increasing rates of both in- and out-migration and the persistence of local migration patterns, even in the early twentieth century, further strengthened this cultural diffusion mechanism.
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direct mechanism
Civil registration provides a direct mechanism through which marriage is distinguished from cohabitation, through which parenthood is defined and by which human life is protected.
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distinct mechanism
Each of these effects is regulated by a distinct mechanism.
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dominant mechanism
But the evidence on headship and on the age pattern of co-residence suggests that nuclear reincorporation was not the dominant mechanism of multigenerational families.
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effective mechanism
The control scheme gave the government a crude but reasonably effective mechanism for suppressing consumer demand.
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efficient mechanism
I examine the robustness of monetary equilibria in a random-matching model, where a more efficient mechanism for trade is available.
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elaborate mechanism
A very elaborate mechanism will be set up by the new plans.
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enforcement mechanism
In this sense, multilateral agencies serve as an enforcement mechanism in an international setting, thereby providing a rationale for the existence of such organizations.
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epigenetic mechanism
This may be an epigenetic mechanism by which normal cells can bypass senescence and grow without limit, allowing sustained cell proliferation and selfrenewal.
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essential mechanism
However, in all of them, the essential mechanism depends on the relationship of determining a mean between extremes, a maximum and a minimum.
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evolutionary mechanism
But both sought the answer in some sort of evolutionary mechanism.
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evolved mechanism
The evolved mechanism on the right traces a curve that is linear to 1:28,340 accuracy.
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exact mechanism
The exact mechanism of cross-linking processes and the functionality of the junction points, however, cannot be derived from these investigations.
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exchange mechanism
The latter inhabitants presumably supplied the former with prepared maize foods via the market or some other exchange mechanism.
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existing mechanism
There is an existing mechanism for publicising information about the work of tribunals.
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explanatory mechanism
Some supplementary explanatory mechanism has to be produced.
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failure mechanism
The primary failure mechanism is found to be unsteadiness in the induction zone arising from the deceleration of the wave front.
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feedback mechanism
A loss of light-induced feedback responses does not mean per se that the feedback mechanism is blocked.
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filtering mechanism
Second, while we may care that our values be authentic for other reasons, adopting authenticity as an additional filtering mechanism will not help.
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financial mechanism
We are ready to provide funds as part of an internationally agreed financial mechanism.
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financing mechanism
From some critics' point of view, the levy is merely a local financing mechanism.
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firing mechanism
It might be enough merely to take away the breech block and destroy the firing mechanism.
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flexible mechanism
This means that one can assume the flexible mechanism to be rigid only if the link stiffness reaches a high value.
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formal mechanism
Apparently, this fact alone may not cause a big problem and can be explained away by some formal mechanism.
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formation mechanism
The central bank is assumed to know the expectation formation mechanism in full.
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fundamental mechanism
An alternative possible modification is to substantially alter the fundamental mechanism for the initiation of eye-movement programming.
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funding mechanism
The tax system also offered the program an existing institutional implementation structure and less politically contested funding mechanism.
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genetic mechanism
Further investigations will have to show which genetic mechanism causes placental dysplasia in mouse interspecific crosses.
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homeostatic mechanism
This variation is apparently hidden in natural populations due to diverse homeostatic mechanisms, involving various developmental, physiological and environmental correlations.
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implementation mechanism
The problem which refinement addresses here is not the search for an implementation mechanism, but the control of the given implementation mechanism.
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incentive mechanism
There is, however, a catch in this incentive mechanism.
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indirect mechanism
Without the indirect mechanism, the rate was lower by a factor of a hundred.
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informal mechanism
As he said, effectively the scheme is intended to provide a quick, cheap and informal mechanism for resolving disputes between authorised firms and consumers.
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inhibitory mechanism
A further question concerns how -uency in a language alters the inhibitory mechanism.
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institutional mechanism
What distinguishes democracy is its institutional mechanism for creating the correspondence.
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interaction mechanism
The scale of the incident vorticity field relative to the body dimensions is an important parameter which determines the type of interaction mechanism.
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internal mechanism
The problem is that in focusing on an inherited internal mechanism, the role of learning over an organism's lifetime tends to get ignored.
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key mechanism
The appropriate selection and weighting of local motion information thus seems to be one key mechanism underlying self-motion estimation in fly tangential neurons.
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known mechanism
Second, is there a known mechanism of action?
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legal mechanism
There was one major legal mechanism that facilitated this.
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locking mechanism
To activate the locking mechanism, the female part must turn 90 clockwise with compressive force.
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mechanism of action
Studies are being carried out at present in order to elucidate the mechanism of action through which noradrenaline exerts its metabolic effect.
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mechanism of evolution
Natural selection of individuals who varied in heritable ways provided the mechanism of evolution.
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mechanism of injury
Another possible mechanism of injury to the brain probably occurs during arrest and is related to ongoing metabolism during the period of arrest despite deep hypothermia.
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molecular mechanism
The molecular mechanism for reprogramming of the donor nuclei following somatic cell nuclear transfer has not been fully elucidated.
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monitoring mechanism
On the one hand, by encouraging the worker to hold more shares of the company, the manager creates indirectly a monitoring mechanism against himself.
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natural mechanism
Imitation is a natural mechanism involving perception-action coupling which plays a central role in child development.
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neural mechanism
We suggest an alternative neural mechanism based on activity competition, which can coexist with synchronization coding.
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neurological mechanism
The recognition of faces is an important neurological mechanism that an individual uses every day.
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novel mechanism
Rather, we point out those cases that evidently must be handled by the novel mechanism of sympathy theory.
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oversight mechanism
It provides a clear independent oversight mechanism which never existed previously.
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parallel mechanism
Before discussing the mobility, the singularity must be considered because it affects the mobility of the parallel mechanism.
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pathogenic mechanism
Proposed pathogenic mechanism for the diarrhea associated with human intestinal spirochetes.
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pathophysiological mechanism
Additional experiments are warranted to investigate the significance of these pathophysiological mechanisms in vivo.
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physiological mechanism
Additionally, relaxation seems to be accelerated in infants representing an important physiological mechanism to improve early diastolic function.
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plausible mechanism
If so, some plausible mechanism through which genes might exert their influence on parenting should be suggested.
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possible mechanism
This is a possible mechanism for the breakdown of the acceleration gap.
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potential mechanism
In conclusion, this study has provided insight into a potential mechanism by which bovine embryos cope with environmental stress and chromosome abnormalities.
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powerful mechanism
By illustrating various examples, we show that our approach eventually provides a powerful mechanism to handle various defeasibilities in temporal prediction and postdiction.
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precise mechanism
However, the functional role of many antigenic molecules remains to be determined for a complete understanding of the precise mechanism of sperm-oocyte interactions.
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pricing mechanism
Integral to the pricing mechanism behind residential property was an east-west axis not re-ected in the distribution of businesses.
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primary mechanism
The primary mechanism used in partial evaluation is the specialisation of function calls which have some or all of their arguments known (or partially known).
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principal mechanism
In a glow-type discharge, the principal mechanism of current transfer at the cathode is ion-electron emission.
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procedural mechanism
For example, provisions in favor of women remained insignificant, as there was no procedural mechanism to insure their application.
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proposed mechanism
Proposed mechanism for stability of proteins to evolutionary mutations.
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protection mechanism
It will conclude on the need or not for a protection mechanism for airline passengers and examine possible options.
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protective mechanism
These researchers speculate that a maltreated child's secure attachment may function as a protective mechanism against self-dysfunction.
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proximate mechanism
The proximate mechanism of a behavior is explored in terms of how the system might work.
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psychological mechanism
Unlike error theorists, we do not claim that this is a naturally selected response governed by some special psychological mechanism (moral faculty).
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quality assurance mechanism
It also supports the use of a quality assurance mechanism at a local level.
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ratchet mechanism
For mutations whose effect is bigger than this, the ratchet mechanism will take place under background selection.
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reaction mechanism
We have also identified the underlying reaction mechanism.
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regulatory mechanism
This suggests a regulatory mechanism whereby cytotrophoblasts recognise and respond to changes in their immediate locale.
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release mechanism
We hypothesize that ascorbate is an integral component of the photoreceptorsynaptic release mechanism.
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repair mechanism
Based on the responses to these, the speaker can then decide whether a repair mechanism is warranted.
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reporting mechanism
The matter is, however, complicated by the frequency reporting mechanism itself.
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resistance mechanism
Resistance suppression by a particular synergist suggests the involvement of the enzyme blocked by it as the resistance mechanism.
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resolution mechanism
Eventually, this has created an apparent incongruity between the water dispute resolution mechanism and its operational environment, thereby adversely affecting the efficiency of the former.
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review mechanism
This review mechanism does not replace the existing safeguard that enables providers to remove themselves from providing care they object to.
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safety mechanism
These substantial changes in sensitivity suggest that this is a safety mechanism that restricts the period in which the seeds can respond to the germination stimulants produced by host plants.
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selection mechanism
The third part proposes a selection mechanism based on inhibition.
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signaling mechanism
In this way, institutional interference creates noise in the signaling mechanism that reduces its informational efficiency.
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similar mechanism
Furthermore, it is difficult to envisage a similar mechanism in the case of extraversion.
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simple mechanism
This simple mechanism prevents the optimizer from trying to run through walls.
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specific mechanism
Biological compatibility attributes such an act not to a specific mechanism for running into burning buildings, but to a general mechanism for altruism itself.
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steering mechanism
The value of only one of them and the equations of the steering mechanism are sufficient to describe them all.
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support mechanism
Collaborative learning may encourage the formation of peer groups, each one providing an informal support mechanism.
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survival mechanism
Surface adherence is an important survival mechanism for microorganisms.
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theoretical mechanism
The present target article is simply intended to cover only one theoretical mechanism of short-term memory, the capacity limit.
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timing mechanism
Moreover, any combination of the aforementioned media can also benefit from its timing mechanism which would warrant greater coordination between the parts.
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transmission mechanism
To understand the implications of determinacy for the monetary transmission mechanism, consider a thought experiment.
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transport mechanism
Fibrous vein structures, often with curved fibres and selvages on vein walls, suggest a diffusion mass transport mechanism from the rock into veins during deformation.
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underlying mechanism
Nevertheless, such a concordance does not imply a common underlying mechanism in the calculation of the two test-statistics.
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unknown mechanism
Endocytosed proteins are transported out of this compartment into the cytoplasm by unknown mechanisms.
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useful mechanism
It is therefore dif cult to say yet whether it is a useful mechanism for improving primary care.
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various mechanisms
The various mechanisms that evolved to sustain various frequencies may serve different functions.
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