Collocations withpotential
These are words often used in combination withpotential.
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academic potential
The test was designed to focus on cognitive ability rather than linguistic knowledge to ensure that the effect of poor language skills is minimized when assessing students' academic potential.
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agricultural potential
This requires significant information on local markets and opportunities and is more likely to be successful in areas with higher agricultural potential.
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commercial potential
The bearded strangers quickly saw the commercial potential of such a malleable material.
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considerable potential
Financial conditionality has considerable potential for effecting procedural transfer, although examples of substantive policy transfer by this method are harder to find.
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creative potential
It is worth examining an ensemble of feature vectors to maximise the creative potential of the system.
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destructive potential
Interventions in the landscape have become more large-scale in nature which has inevitably increased their 'destructive potential'.
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developmental potential
The way the balance between the two is accomplished is dependent upon the developmental potential of the individual in the different life stages.
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electrostatic potential
Electrostatic potential between surfaces bearing ionizable groups in ionic equilibrium with physiologic saline solution.
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enormous potential
We conclude that the method has enormous potential for haemodynamic studies in term, preterm and even the extremely low birth weight infant.
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expressive potential
The duration and expressive potential of this section can vary greatly.
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full potential
However, all these systems require strict adherence to maintenance protocols to perform to their full potential.
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global warming potential
Therefore, it is essential to minimise its overall global warming potential: that of the gas and that of the equipment.
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great potential
The initial indications were that this sort of surface had great potential for transition delay.
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greatest potential
Clearly, it is these euploid embryos that have the greatest potential to implant.
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harmonic potential
First, a complement to the traditional panel method is introduced to generate a more effective harmonic potential field for obstacle avoidance in dynamically changing environments.
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immense potential
This technique has immense potential for monitoring changes in the sub-surface environment.
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intellectual potential
Its intellectual potential, shown by its students, press and cultural life, is clear to outsiders.
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ionization potential
This means that at every time step, only the bound electron with the lowest ionization potential can be released.
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malignant potential
These lesions are believed to have a small malignant potential.
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maximum potential
Both of the two monolingual skills should be developed to their maximum potential.
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metastatic potential
The metastatic potential of these tumours is low, but if left untreated they have the potential to invade locally and may erode bone.
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oxidation potential
Thus, the oxidation potential of a chemical species is listed as the reduction potential of its oxidized form.
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potential disruption
The gendered doctrines of separate spheres - female domesticity and male superiority - begin to show strain under this potential disruption.
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potential exploitation
Rather than protecting groups from potential exploitation in research, exclusion or limited access to trial participation was seen as exploitative, harmful, and unjust.
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potential fraud
It does not differentiate among various types of potential fraud and does not distinguish between attempted and successful fraud.
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potential success
The potential success of individual leadership or development roles will be challenges unless the organization is receptive and prepared for change.
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potential violence
The question of how far the eastern territories, where no such continuity existed, became a receptacle for potential violence requires further investigation.
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productive potential
If the government's objective is to realise the productive potential of an under-utilised labour supply, this seems a very high price to pay.
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receptor potential
This similarity suggests that the receptor potential waveform may be largely determined by the transduction mechanism.
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redox potential
The redox potential suggests oxidizing conditions throughout the section.
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reproductive potential
For reasons related to both kinship and reciprocal altruism, reproductive potential can also be influenced by what others think of us.
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therapeutic potential
As mentioned in the previous section, galectins have a great deal of therapeutic potential.
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transmembrane potential
Nevertheless, the coupling with the transmembrane potential is expected to be reasonably well-represented by a continuum dielectric approximation because it is essentially electrostatic in nature.
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tremendous potential
This resource, once created, has tremendous potential as a tool for a wide range of research, both academic and non-academic.
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unlimited potential
In this way, incessant oscillations are generated in the core maintaining internal circulative processes and providing an unlimited potential to self-evolve.
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untapped potential
Tension builds; the timbre of the voice changes as the music grows more unsettled; and during the song's unpredictable course, untapped potential seems to be set free.
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upside potential
The intuition provided is that a risky investment is necessary to ensure enough upside potential.
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vast potential
As can be imagined, there is vast potential here for ambiguity, for allegations of plagiarism, and for actual litigation.
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wasted potential
The impact of this comparison was heightened by counter-examples of beauty and fertility which demonstrated wasted potential.
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yield potential
Our goals were to determine if producers could identify and then rank growth traits that determined yield potential of hard red spring wheat.
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