modern theory

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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theory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈθɪə.ri/us
/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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This paper is the first part of a two-part survey reviewing some basic concepts and methods of themoderntheoryof dynamical systems.
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In themoderntheoryof rational choice, rationality is seen as a property of individual actions.
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We would like to contribute to this endeavor by reviewing some basic topics of themoderntheoryof dynamical systems.
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The value of pursuing interlanguage research utilizingmoderntheorycannot be underestimated.
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More fundamentally, themoderntheoryof rational choice is a theory of individual rationality.
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From the perspective ofmoderntheory, the physiological details of whatever surgical procedures the castrati had to undergo matter little.
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There is a parallel here with the idea of the transitivity of trust in themoderntheoryof social capital.
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Most questions raised among economists by the development of themoderntheoryof nonlinear dynamical systems are still open and actively debated in the literature.
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This is the second part of a two-part survey of themoderntheoryof nonlinear dynamical systems.
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Moderntheorymight offer a more sympathetic context for the self-mythologising drive; feminist and psychoanalytic approaches suggest several mutually compatible explanations.
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But themoderntheoryof rational choice does not try to explain why people have the preferences they do: the chain of instrumental explanation stops at preferences.
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Samuelson was also instrumental in establishing themoderntheoryof production.
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The wholemoderntheoryof screening coal at the pithead is involved in this proposition.
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All thismoderntheoryalso leads to the idea that in times of slump you budget for deficits, and in time of boom for surpluses.
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Those people invented themoderntheoryand practice of spin.
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I am no believer in themoderntheorythat there is no education except scientific.
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Their whole existence is inconsistent with themoderntheoryof representation.
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