Collocations withcharacteristic

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acoustic characteristics
Finally, the effects of speaker gender on acoustic characteristics of vowels and on the perception of prominence-related changes, observed in this study, cannot be ignored.
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background characteristics
Each of the background characteristics included in the models examined in the comparison group sample was also reevaluated in the models including treatment.
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baseline characteristics
For example, the statistical adjustment might be based on baseline characteristics.
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basic characteristic
Its basic characteristic lies in the support it has to offer for "evaluation" activities.
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behavioural characteristics
This institutional heterogeneity presages a great diversity of motives, objectives and behavioural characteristics.
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biochemical characteristics
The biochemical characteristics associated with desiccation tolerance may also contribute to an assessment of the evolutionary status of desiccation sensitivity in seeds.
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biological characteristics
This review will focus on the biological characteristics and clinical applications of these fetal-derived nucleic acids in maternal plasma.
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certain characteristic
We can point out certain characteristic traits of the women group relations to the resource struggle in the region.
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characteristic trait
A characteristic trait of the movement was its defensive nature.
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chemical characteristics
The important chemical characteristics in our context are associated with the properties of metal ions in aqueous solution.
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clinical characteristic
Duration of infection can be considered a clinical characteristic, but it is also of epidemiological importance.
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common characteristic
What common characteristic, over and above being included in the extension of "law," do all and only instances of law share?
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cultural characteristics
However, international collaboration requires establishing trust among partners, understanding the unique academic and cultural characteristics of each partner, and developing a shared vision.
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defining characteristic
Early working was the norm for children in households without a father's earnings, in fact it was a defining characteristic of their situation.
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demographic characteristics
There were no significant differences in demographic characteristics, personal risk factors, or previous antiplatelet therapy between the two treatment groups.
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desirable characteristic
Having no energy dispersion on the beam going into the main accelerator is a desirable characteristic.
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desired characteristic
In order to follow the desired characteristic, 8 active bytes must propagate to a single active byte in both directions.
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distinct characteristic
The underlying approaches for each of the methods are different, which results in distinct characteristic strengths and weaknesses of these methods.
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distinctive characteristic
It has another distinctive characteristic which is particularly pertinent to my purposes.
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distinguishing characteristic
Another distinguishing characteristic seems to be their learning strategies, and these can be divided into two sets.
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dominant characteristic
The dominant characteristic of the period was the creation of garden suburbs.
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ecological characteristics
These three marine systems, suggest that external factors involving history and the ecological characteristics of parasites and hosts are the key.
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essential characteristic
Team production is an essential characteristic of the production process and organizations and at the same time gives it the characteristics of a complex system.
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facial characteristic
At birth, patients generally present a peculiar facial characteristic, such as a round face.
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flow characteristics
These axial velocities provide a velocity profile at a particular cross-section of the pulmonary artery, thus describing blood flow characteristics across the vessel.
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following characteristics
In this paper we describe the design and implementation of an injective finite mapping suitable for a programming language with the following characteristics.
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formal characteristics
But again, he locates his explanation not in the formal characteristics of their music but rather in the discursive strategies that coalesced around it.
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fundamental characteristic
Depressed mood, the fundamental characteristic of the disorder, is often experienced or expressed as decreased positive affect.
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genetic characteristics
For disability, that component is increasingly associated with chromosomal or genetic characteristics that are detectable prenatally.
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handling characteristics
The accident record does not rely only on the trike's handling characteristics.
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identifiable characteristic
It would be convenient if the three types of seed behaviour were associated with another easily identifiable characteristic.
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identifying characteristic
The only arbitrary identifying characteristic included in the nomenclature is the letter indicating the terminal arborizations field size.
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institutional characteristics
Most of these variables are in the institutional characteristics index.
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internal characteristics
A discrimination deriving from one of its internal characteristics would be preferable.
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intrinsic characteristic
I am interested in the 'song of a material' (its intrinsic characteristic) and its ability to contribute directly or indirectly to architectural character.
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key characteristic
It seems to me a key characteristic of this work that any of these can be convincing.
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linguistic characteristics
They also show the linguistic characteristics of individual lexical items and how individuals learn them (transfer of learning and transfer of training).
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main characteristic
The main characteristic of this style was an almost obsessive concern for the minutiae of all areas of government.
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masculine characteristics
They are women who, by some genetic accident, have inherited some masculine characteristics.
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maternal characteristic
It may be that attachment disorganization is so heterogeneous that a consistent association with any single maternal characteristic is less likely.
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molecular characteristics
However, many points remain unclear as the molecular characteristics and its physiological functions are far from being completely understood.
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morphological characteristic
Breast cancer risk has been linked to abdominal (android) adiposity,41,40 a recognized morphological characteristic of aging.
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negative characteristic
The neutralization process in this case is accompanied by a loss of the negative characteristic the word previously included.
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notable characteristic
A notable characteristic of the subjects is that none are beginners.
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observable characteristics
Presence of forest or even initial stages of forest regeneration is associated with sharply lower land values, holding observable characteristics constant.
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operating characteristic
A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases.
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operational characteristics
The operational characteristics of the inductively driven plasma generators could be rebuilt using one-dimensional models based on averaged parameters.
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organizational characteristic
At least one organizational characteristic was included in the final regression model for all but one of the five outcomes.
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outstanding characteristic
Its outstanding characteristic is its balanced sympathy for its subject.
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patient characteristic
The dummy variables (with values 0 or 1) in this model are the practice characteristics, viz. type and location, and the patient characteristic, viz. gender.
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personal characteristic
The final personal characteristic we examine is country of birth, which has not been as extensively studied in the literature as the other personal characteristics.
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personality characteristic
Another way involves correlating test scores with another established test that also measures the same personality characteristic.
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phenotypic characteristic
We may then start understanding what phenotypic characteristic natural selection is acting upon.
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physical characteristic
One such technique consists in detecting the passage of a naturally occurring structure by monitoring some physical characteristic.
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physiological characteristics
The study of the physiological characteristics of microorganisms under conditions of sub-zero temperatures is complicated due to the low rate of metabolic processes.
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principal characteristic
Indeed, the principal characteristic of the colonial administration of the town between the wars was simple neglect.
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prominent characteristic
A prominent characteristic of most cells was their sustained or transient nature in responding to the flashing spot.
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psychological characteristics
Numerous psychological characteristics have been implicated to be associated with early age onset substance use.
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psychosocial characteristics
The limitations of our investigation notwithstanding, the multivariate analyses suggested that respondents' temporal distress profiles were predicted by pre- and post-transplant health and psychosocial characteristics.
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racial characteristic
The slow weight gain after this could be due to a deficiency in energy which was not successfully overcome by supplementary feeding, or due to racial characteristic.
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reproductive characteristic
On the other hand, the ability to form male pronuclei is far from being the only reproductive characteristic of mammalian spermatozoa.
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salient characteristic
The most salient characteristic of his response to criticism was an absolute refusal to concede even the slightest error on his part.
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secondary characteristic
Liberty is not the primary, but the secondary characteristic of conscience; before being free, it is the subject of obligation.
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shared characteristic
Our analysis highlights a shared characteristic of human language in general, namely, the centrality of the notion of subject.
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sociodemographic characteristics
Basic sociodemographic characteristics and detailed questions pertaining to knowledge and use of contraceptives were recorded for each husband.
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socioeconomic characteristics
However, these data do not take into account possible differences in demography, morbidity, and socioeconomic characteristics of people in the regions.
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specific characteristic
These results suggest that a pattern of low cortisol reactivity during stress is a specific characteristic of early-onset antisocial patients.
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spectral characteristics
Furthermore, we have varied the beaters to further colour the spectral characteristics of each gong.
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striking characteristic
Important as these features are, there is another, very striking characteristic shared by the first transitive verbs acquired by children.
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structural characteristic
This enzyme will bind to the beta-lactam ring which is a structural characteristic for beta-lactams and hydrolyze the ring.
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stylistic characteristics
This discrepancy can be explained if the stylistic characteristics of comic strips and cartoons are considered more closely.
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temporal characteristic
The difference in threshold for the two sequences must be due to the temporal characteristic of the presentations.
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undesirable characteristic
Besides giving a plant a characteristic which is considered desirable, transferring a gene may also produce an undesirable characteristic.
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unifying characteristic
The unifying characteristic among the nonstandard uses is a pragmatic distancing from a given narrative focus, resulting in a generalized marking of remoteness and completion.
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unique characteristic
Some markers have the unique characteristic of helping to distinguish between different aetiologies of infection such as bacteria versus viruses.
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unusual characteristic
This unusual characteristic makes econometric modeling problematic.
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