Collocations withchange
These are words often used in combination withchange.
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abrupt change
The theoretical curves follow closely the dashed and dash-dotted numerical curves, and the abrupt change in tangent angle appears to fit almost exactly.
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accelerating change
But, when we speak of helping young people to settle down in employment, we must recognise that they are facing a turbulent world of extraordinary and accelerating change.
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adaptive change
The perception-action coupling is the result of an adaptive change of our central nervous system to environmental properties.
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adverse change
Yesterday, we made it clear once again that we would not accept an adverse change in the abatement.
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age-related change
Traditional theories and evidence for a critical period have stipulated a more abrupt age-related change and more deterministic outcomes in performance.
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anthropogenic change
Can a better understanding of this process uncover characteristics of institutions that enhance capacity to respond to anthropogenic change?
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attitudinal change
Attitudinal change is directional rather than random, it seems.
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behavioural change
Attitudes affect the probability of behavioural change while behaviour affects the probability of attitudinal change.
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biochemical change
When reaction kinetics and diffusion are coupled, travelling waves of chemical concentration can effect a biochemical change very much faster than straight diffusional processes.
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catastrophic change
This makes governments responsive to stresses and shock and hence more resilient, which also enhances the potential for gradual rather than catastrophic change.
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climate change mitigation
We want identified funding to tackle climate change mitigation.
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climatic change
Assessing the response of plant functional types to climatic change in tropical forests.
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coaching change
After a coaching change, the team rallied to finish fourth.
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conceptual change
We know very little about the time-course of conceptual change: is it a trickle growing into a river?
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conformational change
Consequently, the arginines are carried through the membrane electric field, resulting in a conformational change which couples channel opening to membrane voltage.
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constructive change
Sometimes an exceptionally profitable asymmetric reaction may arise due to internal accidental changes and this may bring a revolutionary constructive change in the probiont.
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continual change
A continual change occurs along strike between the thinner and thicker ends of the sandpacks, through complex along-strike anastomosing, splaying and branching of fault planes.
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corresponding change
Thus, as the temperature increases or decreases in soil, a corresponding change in the mass attributed to each phase (aqueous and gas) will result.
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cosmetic change
I suggest that the more necessary the reform, the more likely it is to go beyond cosmetic change and offer real administrative innovation.
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cultural change
An institution that survives, such as matrimony, responds surely even if stubbornly to cultural change.
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cyclical change
Nevertheless, the human mind has gone through that cyclical change.
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degenerative changes
The period of major photoreceptor loss coincided with ages during which about 10% of photoreceptors appeared to show degenerative changes (4 -8 years of age).
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demographic change
This article presents a case study of an elementary school situated within a prestigious school district that has undergone rapid demographic change in recent years.
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desired change
The author has produced a formal method for specifying the desired change intentionally, using a 'formula-based' approach to updating needs rather than a 'model-based' technique.
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developmental change
To explain developmental change, the grammar-based approaches exemplified here invoke the concept of maturation.
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dietary change
Here we add in the mediating variables of dietary change to examine what effect they have on this key element of psychological well-being.
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dramatic change
With this kind of variation there could be dramatic change in the sequence of events that follow.
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drastic change
It was a drastic change from the sheer indifference that was prevalent until 2000.
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epigenetic change
Most of the examples of unscheduled epigenetic change come from flowering plants, with a few from fungi.
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evolutionary change
She may believe that it fosters positive evolutionary change.
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far-reaching change
A variety of views has been expressed, but there is wide acceptance of the need for far-reaching change in the structure of local government.
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frequent change
The requirement for frequent change and updating is also par t of the equation.
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fundamental change
They experience a fundamental change in their personality, and the climax is reached with their complaints that they have become strangers to themselves.
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generational change
A significant generational change in the industry, reflected in opposing musical tastes, was clearly emerging.
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genetic change
If cultural innovations modify natural selection pressures, then genetic change resulting from modified natural selection is likely to follow.
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hormonal changes
Both hormonal changes and environmental factors are important.
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impending change
The regulations provide that the amber with red signal denotes an impending change, but whilst it is showing movement beyond the stop line remains prohibited.
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incremental change
We focus in this article on incremental change, but our framework also sheds light on cases of episodic change.
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instantaneous change
The trajectory of a system can have discontinuities, for example an instantaneous change in the velocity caused by an impact.
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institutional change
It will be argued that political institutional change, including changes within the agencies of government, have been important in offering opportunities to groups of women.
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irreversible change
Despite these failures, he insists, the course that the powers followed marked an irreversible change from the prewar diplomacy of imperialism.
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large-scale change
All of us would like to see a large-scale change in the rating system.
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last-minute change
That last-minute change tells us that the formula is not dependable and transparent.
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lasting change
Needless to say, the commission's recommendations did not lead to lasting change.
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legislative change
Legislative change, however, did not indicate a wish for easier access to divorce, as this would threaten family life and morality.
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long-lasting change
Therefore, they are recognized as powerful tools to combat poverty and inspire positive, long-lasting change.
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long-term change
This way of looking at the prehistoric world appealed to me, particularly with its emphasis on long-term change.
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longitudinal change in
In addition, the present investigation specifically compared two viable alternative models for describing longitudinal change in antisocial behavior and alcohol dependence.
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major change
The reliance on economic framing of regulation, though, signaled a major change in rhetorical emphasis.
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managerial change
We introduced managerial change on a great scale without contemplating requalifying headmasters for the managerial role that they had to take on.
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marked change
The skin sparing effect of high energy radiation has brought about a marked change for the better in the prevalence and severity of skin reactions.
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massive change
The term 'transposition' is apt in instances of massive change based on competing models, in that here the pitch is changed.
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meaningful change
Clinical significance : a statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research.
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measurable change
The use of quantitative measures was important to demonstrate any measurable change in how well participants managed the walks and the tasks along the way.
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minor change
This was a minor change; nevertheless it opened the door to a more flexible approach to the question of widows and orphans.
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momentous change
First, we advance our understanding of public opinion about the economy by examining its particular characteristics in political economies undergoing momentous change.
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monumental change
Although a new model of the agricultural system is needed, current infrastructure is not equipped to handle this monumental change.
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morphological change
In the present study, we investigated the morphological change and viability of parenchymal microglial cells after transient ischemia and reperfusion.
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notable change
The most notable change is the role that women occupy.
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noticeable change
The trend was slow to take effect among the oldest staff, although a noticeable change appeared between 1988 and 1993.
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observed change
This hypothesis predicts the observed change in statutory interpretation, and the outcome that was selected by the judiciary.
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pathological change
Functional limitation, as the writers on disablement in the book tease out interestingly, is dependent on much more than pathological change in the joint.
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peaceful change
On the contrary: most prefer some sort of peaceful change.
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physiological change
Failed physiological change of the spiral arteries will result in persistence of the muscular layer.
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positive change
This could be accounted for by general education level, in that more educated respondents generally reported seeing more positive change.
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profound change
One profound change has been the diminution of the labour union movement.
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progressive change
In turn, an understanding of these scope conditions facilitates the determination of whether and how progressive change can be implemented.
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proportional change
In calculating the sample size necessary for the study we hypothesized a proportional change of 50 % in the proportion of participants with a relapse.
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proposed change
The most revolutionary proposed change is the integration of the fee-forservice payment system for hospital doctors with the hospital budget.
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qualitative change
When children attend to the input and repeatedly attempt to parse it, their performance undergoes a qualitative change.
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radical change
After 1898, there was no real radical change in the country.
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rapid change
It was found that the grain charge can vary significantly during the expansion because of the rapid change of the electrostatic potential.
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refreshing change
This is a refreshing change from writing that presents selected quotes from interviews to illustrate particular themes or support an argument (including my own).
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resulting change
The second term depicts the indirect effect, through the resulting change in the endogenous (or shadow) price of labour.
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revolutionary change
The concept in fact contains the seeds of revolutionary change.
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seasonal change
This is usually attributed to seasonal change in ambient temperature and their differential effects on the three granivorous groups.
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significant change
This is real evidence of social mobility and a significant change in the composition of the administrative elite.
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slight change
Only a slight change was reported in smoking and drinking behaviour.
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social change
The major social change with demographic implications is undoubtedly the new roles of women.
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societal change
Meaningful societal change (of which accountability is likely to be a key part) requires the overhaul of political, legal and social institutions.
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spare change
Therefore, she and her children survived off the customers spare change or food left as a token of appreciation.
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statutory change
The lease periods concerned, sometimes 999 years, are also too long to be undertaken without a reasonable possibility of statutory change during that period.
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structural change
These figures may stand out in a regional context, but have not been achieved through structural change.
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stylistic change
We have greater clarity on another kind of stylistic change, and one that is easier to understand.
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substantial change
Despite the chronological distance from his early work, the politics of these later poems do not reflect any substantial change in outlook.
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substantive change
I have also run the analysis using subsets of three and five administrations with no substantive change in my conclusions.
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subtle change
The subtle change which was taking place in the fraternity during the 1230s and 1240s is fully explored.
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sudden change
It is the discovery that a sudden change has taken place in the extent of globalisation which tends to affect support.
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suggested change
But if this suggested change over time, it denied the existence of a considerable diversity of approaches within given periods.
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sweeping change
Under the rule-based model, a single governmental edict can visit sweeping change on an entire industry.
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systemic change
The era of sudden systemic change and decisions about basic structures is over.
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technological change
Still, it may capture some novel aspects of structural technological change.
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temporal change
Angular dispersion and temporal change of femtosecond pulses from misaligned pulse compressors.
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tidal changes
This phenomenon may have been enhanced by the water movements and changing salinity caused by the rains and tidal changes.
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tremendous change
The traditional tribal hierarchy has undergone tremendous change over the past fifty years.
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welcome change
Another reason may be that church members help older people materially and visit them, probably a welcome change in their dreary existence.
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wholesale change
Meaningful recovery, however, would only be possible in the wake of a wholesale change in the system of education.
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year-to-year changes
Up to this point, the variability in the data due to year-to-year changes in maternal depressive symptomatology has not been included in any analysis.
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zoning change
These hearings were called to solicit public input on a proposed zoning change.
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