controlled environment

collocation in English

meaningsofcontrolledandenvironment

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controlled
adjective
uk
/kənˈtrəʊld/
us
/kənˈtroʊld/
involving careful, intentional actions that limit risk ...
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environment
noun
uk
/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
us
/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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All field-collected eggs and larvae were reared incontrolledenvironmentconditions to the pupal or adult life-stage to enable species identification.
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Students might be more willing to speak and write inside the classroom because it is a morecontrolledenvironment, with a small, familiar audience.
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Experiments then allow one to study dome evolution in acontrolledenvironment.
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Secondly, a small number of recordings were carried out in the home rather than in thecontrolledenvironmentof the research clinic.
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The authors have a subtle, multi-layered view of their various significances in creating a structured andcontrolledenvironment.
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Caryopses were produced in the field in the summers of 1996 and 1997, in a greenhouse and in acontrolledenvironmentgrowthroom.
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This, in turn, is contingent upon the prison's highlycontrolledenvironmentand the potential repercussions - personal and collective - of such acts.
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Farm and laboratory animals are reared in a stable,controlledenvironmentwith abundant and guaranteed food supply.
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All experiments were conducted under the abovecontrolledenvironmentconditions.
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There are two main scenarios: the uncontrolled environment without any regulation and acontrolledenvironment with emissions stabilization at the level of year 2000.
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Being challenged, although at times uncomfortable, was accepted: they were in a safecontrolledenvironment where mistakes were accepted as everyone learned together.
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Farnham, like other reformers of the period, believed that deviant behaviour would be ameliorated by the use of acontrolledenvironment.
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In the forced desynchrony protocol, the participant resides in a strictlycontrolledenvironment.
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Figure 4 also indicates the difficulty of simulating the complexity of drought in the real world by either managing drought environments or by experiments in acontrolledenvironment.
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Thecontrolledenvironmentand presentation of input meant that the learner had few if any choices in the learning experience.
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The beetles were housed individually in plastic containers (9.5 cm diameter, 5 cm depth) with 80 g moist peat and maintained in acontrolledenvironmentas above.
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Radiotherapy is administered in a carefullycontrolledenvironment, by highly trained staff.
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