Collocations withdevelopment
These are words often used in combination withdevelopment.
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adolescent development
Some ways in which neighborhoods, nuclear families, friendship groups, and schools jointly affect changes in early adolescent development.
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agricultural development
But such adjustments did not necessarily overturn the broad, theoretical assumptions with which experts and officials conceptualized the problems of agricultural development.
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arrested development
Arrested development in human hookworm infections : an adaptation to a seasonal unfavourable external environment.
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artistic development
Rather, we have to unpick the various aesthetic, social, and cultural trends that combined to prompt this artistic development.
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capitalist development
At university campuses, communists stepped up their criticism of capitalist development and wrested control of student and faculty unions.
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character development
Popular melodramas, by definition, play off of viewers' expectations and innate hunches about plot and character development, problem, and denouement.
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cognitive development
Therefore, the net impact of premature mortality and impaired cognitive development is loss of future earnings.
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commercial development
The most serious threat to these peoples is represented by the commercial development of strategically important reserves of mineral resources.
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continued development
Each performance has informed the continued development of the newly reconstructed system, and has in some cases led to corrections to the underlying analysis.
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continuing development
We hope these interest you in this unique, broad, and exciting field, and invite you to join us in its continuing development.
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continuous development
In this sense it is not so much a continuous development as a continuous diversification, with new functions developing alongside the old functions that continue to exist.
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crucial development
One crucial development will be the integration of a new online system for peer-review, a feature which will assist both the authors and editors.
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development workshop
In astrobiology, this can be done through professional development workshops for space science journalists.
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dramatic development
An anonymous reviewer wonders why a pragmatic principle should not be learned at one point in time and thus show a dramatic development.
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embryonic development
It was supposed that this approach may test a general model situation in other studies of impairment of cell nucleus function in embryonic development.
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emotional development
Future research needs to consider the role of fathers or male caregivers in the emotional development of physically maltreated children.
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evolutionary development
He suggests that we have internalized, during our evolutionary development, environmental regularities, or constraints.
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exciting development
This was an exciting development that breathed new life into the field.
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fetal development
Understanding this is important because correct placental development\\ function is necessary for correct fetal development\\ viability.
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future development
What this final chapter leaves us with is a platform for the future development of the author's stimulating and sometimes provocative ideas.
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gradual development
Is it possible that lexical factors are involved in this phonetically gradual development of the nasal vowels?
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historical development
The remainder of the chapter discusses the historical development, provides two case studies on even and barely, and asks further questions.
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human development
However, further work needs to be undertaken to confirm the stage-specific nature of these genes and to determine their function in early human development.
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industrial development
The cost of meeting these standards to the industry can be regarded as the cost of environmentally sustainable industrial development.
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intellectual development
His intellectual development involved in fact two strands, a more technical one and a more philosophical one.
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late development
In summary, we find late development of global perceptual skills in the macaque monkey, as exemplified by contour integration.
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leadership development
Some attendees showed almost immediate application of leadership development in their communication and negotiation practice.
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major development
The next major development will be the interface between the parser and the lexical database.
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mixed-use development
Given that the emphasis on housebuilding will, in many cases, revolve around urbanism, the first objective must be mixed-use development.
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moral development
The amount of spiritual or biblical industriousness is thus simultaneously a measure of moral development.
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motor development
With an infant, parents were told to let the baby play regularly on the floor level for stimulation and enhancement of motor development.
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multilateral development
The study proposes and discusses alternative explanations on how the multilateral development banks may have influenced thinking in borrowing countries.
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neural development
Such a possibility would have profound implications for ongoing neural development during the synaptogenic phase.
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ongoing development
This agenda in itself is a valuable contribution to the ongoing development of parental leave policies and related research.
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optimal development
The first important decision involves selecting a host niche that guarantees optimal development of the progeny.
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overseas development
At a time when words such as 'agronomy' and 'engineering' scarcely figure in a politically correct overseas development vocabulary, this book provides great encouragement.
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parallel development
However, there appears to have been a parallel development early on in both regional varieties regarding the incipient emergence of the to -ing pattern.
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planned development
People and the state: an anthropology of planned development.
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positive development
This positive development has occurred because local-level actors respond to a different set of incentives than the ones constraining national politicians.
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promising development
This is a promising development, because one can search different journals and resources from one site.
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proposed development
The evolution of policy debates and proposed development schemes are recounted in their minutiae, but the broader consequences of those debates are left unexplored.
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proximal development
The zone of proximal development and its implications for teaching and learning.
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psychosocial development
The endurance of this positive relationship then promotes optimal psychosocial development within the context of the family system.
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rapid development
The script language is flexible enough to build filter structures compactly, and enables rapid development.
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recent development
The recent development of targeted expression of transgenes in the nervous system allows more precise manipulation of male courtship behaviour.
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residential development
The bank provides long-term loans for the residential development and commercial real estate development.
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retail development
Female shoppers, enticed by new metropolitan retail development, carved out a space for middle- and upper-class women in the public spaces of the city.
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role development
A number of activities are at play in workforce configurations: role substitution, role expansion, role development.
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significant development
The latter approach of observing and analysing user phenomena and then manually constructing rules to cover them incurs significant development and maintenance costs.
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socioeconomic development
In other words, this research seeks to attain an optimal environmental objective without restricting the opportunity for economic growth and socioeconomic development.
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spiritual development
Do you wish your spiritual development to follow your own whims?
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subsequent development
Relationship between nuclear remodeling and subsequent development of mouse embryonic nuclei transferred to enucleated oocytes.
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suburban development
As more civic building occurs, coupled with slower suburban development, there will be greater public focus on the rebuilding of the city.
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supporting development
Primary care research is developing rapidly with much progress made in supporting development of research outside academic units.
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technological development
These are only examples, but they do show that not all technological development hurts the environment.
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uneven development
We do not claim that our hypothesis is valid for all children with uneven development.
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urban development
Today their number is decreasing as a result of urban development and the modernization of agriculture.
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vocabulary development
One such variable that may be important for understanding individual differences in vocabulary development is gender.
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youth development
The review includes literature from 1975 to 2000 and focuses on the role of mentoring in youth development.
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