Collocations withconcept
These are words often used in combination withconcept.
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abstract concept
Any depiction would be a tentative embodiment of the abstract concept of enhancement.
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advanced concept
It is central to functional programming, but a rather advanced concept in all other programming paradigms.
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alien concept
After the generic alien concept was finalized, each of the effects coordinators worked with a specific actor.
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analogous concept
In this section, we seek the analogous concept in domain theory.
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basic concept
Nevertheless, a basic concept can be stated: the impediments must be severe, not minor.
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biological concept
Older environmental explanations of racial difference increasingly gave way to a modern, biological concept of ' race ' as distinct, immutable physical type.
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broad concept
Thus, the dolphin developed a broad concept of imitation.
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central concept
The problem in modern neuroscience is a paradigmatic one that can be traced to its central concept of neural processing.
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cognitive concept
I am primarily interested here in definiteness as a universal cognitive concept, which in some languages can be signalled by the use of definite articles.
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complex concept
Sequence stratigraphy is a somewhat complex concept, rich in jargon.
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concept definition
The programmer0 knowledge engineer is allowed to specify links in the generalization hierarchy by naming other concepts in a concept definition.
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concept formation
On the one hand, bilinguals seem to utilize the same cognitive mechanisms of concept formation and lexical access that are used by all people.
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concept learning
It aims to synthesize similarity, concept learning, generalization, and reasoning.
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concept map
The concept map is a form of a semantic network or semantic graph.
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concept mapping
As examples (1)-(3) show, the specific forms available in a given language for concept mapping may differ for the same event.
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concept of autonomy
Despite its clear importance within development, the concept of autonomy has prompted criticism from diverse quarters.
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concept of culture
A traditional tripartite concept of culture is employed, distinguishing technology, social organization, and ideology.
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concept of democracy
For example, a particular concept of democracy was, in fact, part of communist philosophy.
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concept of deterrence
I believe that the only way in which we can maintain the uneasy peace is through the concept of deterrence.
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concept of equality
Strictly speaking, in this argument we assume that the concept of equality is complete, such that equality promotion is an issue in all distributive conflicts.
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concept of evolution
The concept of evolution was another component in their racial thought that militated against a rigid form of biological determinism.
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concept of fairness
The inequity-averse and priority-aware models primarily aim at explaining the human concept of fairness, related to observed differences in payoff.
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concept of freedom
With those examples and their violations of personal liberties as the backdrop, conservative intellectuals benefited from grounding their policy stances in the concept of freedom.
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concept of identity
The essay reviews the semantic puzzles that the mathematical concept of identity brings when it is applied to language.
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concept of liberty
Are the alternative explanations that religion has always given to the concept of liberty still available?
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concept of rationality
We have suggested that, for our eighteenth-century writers, the concept of rationality was less narrowly defined, and could encompass dispositions as well as actions.
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concept of representation
His work also serves as a critique of semiotic approaches to music, and questions the concept of representation.
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concept of resilience
The concept of resilience has been dogged by definitional problems such that there is somewhat of a split between practitioners and researchers.
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concept of sovereignty
This was a major success because it redefines the concept of sovereignty as a positive concept, putting human beings at the core of security concerns.
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concept vehicle
One was a concept vehicle but the other was derived from a body that is used for a people carrier today.
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contested concept
However, they fail to acknowledge that 'antisocial behaviour' is a contested concept.
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core concept
The core concept that is used repeatedly in this article is that of dimensional identity.
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ecological concept
The role of the ecological concept of information, especially in its specificational sense is also misconstrued.
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elusive concept
Although it is an elusive concept, it generally refers to the way people relate each other.
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emerging concept
Together, these studies fuel the emerging concept of glial cells as key dynamic players in regulating the transfer and storage of information in the brain.
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essential concept
It is an essential concept behind land management, not just an improved alternative approach to soil and water conservation, as suggested by the author.
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evolving concept
Frailty in elderly people: an evolving concept.
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explanatory concept
This observation excludes language dominance as an explanatory concept.
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familiar concept
The book begins with a useful series of definitions including the familiar concept of ' leisure ' as free-time rather than a specific set of activities.
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foundational concept
Either way, though, the desire to justify oneself to others is not the foundational concept.
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fundamental concept
This basic fact is essential to determining underlying forms, and is a fundamental concept of phonology.
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geometric concept
It is named after the corresponding geometric concept.
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innovative concept
He had attacked such a basic tenet as the rationality assumption, forging such a peculiar and innovative concept as that of animal spirits.
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key concept
A key concept is that of an attractor.
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mathematical concept
The essay reviews the semantic puzzles that the mathematical concept of identity brings when it is applied to language.
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meaningful concept
Also, the expansion estimator has been expressed in terms of the number of unobserved shadow species corresponding to each observed species, an ecologically meaningful concept.
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metaphysical concept
For this system rests wholly on a view and an interpretation of the events of nature that is dominated by the metaphysical concept of purpose.
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musical concept
The piece looks like an 'entry' in a dictionary explaining a musical concept.
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nebulous concept
The structural approach is avoided since the socio-economic situation has not markedly improved since 2001 and culture is a rather nebulous concept to measure.
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novel concept
His example of a novel concept learned through language - "hat trick" in hockey - is explained in perceptual-action terms.
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operational concept
A set of potential scenarios was proposed based on the operational concept.
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original concept
The song clearly began with the original concept.
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outdated concept
It rests upon an outdated concept of marriage as a kind of subjugation, whereas the modern concept is of a partnership.
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outmoded concept
The old extramural vision is long dead and gone and continuing education has taken its place, but that is now an outmoded concept.
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philosophical concept
It has disproved the notion that elderly patients cannot understand a philosophical concept such as existential well-being.
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proof of concept
However, to demonstrate proof of concept, a use case scenario is briefly described.
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psychological concept
Auer defines language preference as consisting of "interactional processes of displaying and ascribing predicates to individuals," rather than "any kind of psychological concept" (1998:8).
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radical concept
That is not a radical concept, and it should be applied wherever possible.
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related concept
The notions of ' hybridity' and ' mongrelisation' may have become clichés of post-colonial literature, but a related concept is irresistible in this context.
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relative concept
By definition, entrenchment is a relative concept; it is not absolute and so cannot be measured on a scale of 0-100%.
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relevant concept
A bit in the matrix is set to 1 if the relevant concept is associated with the relevant information entity.
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revolutionary concept
In terms of contemporary memory theory, this is a revolutionary concept.
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scientific concept
This emphasis on culture generated new hostility to the use of ' ' race' ' as a scientific concept.
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sociological concept
The sociological concept of style is designed to explain the emergence and persistence of styles.
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spatial concept
Attempts are being made to rectify this, but it is difficult to imagine how it can be done without compromising the spatial concept.
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strategic concept
The strategic concept also provides top-level guidance for the restructuring of alliance military forces.
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theological concept
They remained locked within a cognitive framework in which insanity was a theological concept.
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theoretical concept
The cross-linguistic differences also reflect the explanatory inadequacies of the theoretical concept of markedness or default features.
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traditional concept
This necessarily entails the differentiation of the traditional concept of cohort and generation.
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underlying concept
While the underlying concept is very innovative, little research has been conducted to characterize an exercise machine that imitates the movement of horseback riding.
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unifying concept
This is especially important to an understanding of hegemony, the unifying concept of his political thought.
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universal concept
Bowden (1997) pointed to the potential contradiction of regarding care as a universal concept whilst at the same time emphasising the variety of forms of care in real life.
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useful concept
Legal culture is a convenient and useful concept, but sometimes the event and the culture are inverted.
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vague concept
Similarity is a very vague concept, of course.
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very concept
The very concept of rationality underdetermines the outcome.
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western concept
Toward the end of the 19th century, "e-hon" chapter-books were eclipsed in popularity by the new western concept of literary magazines.
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whole concept
He's also keen on the whole concept of noise as disruption, on many levels, and brings semiotics, topic theory, embodiment and metaphor into the mix.
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