reciprocal interaction

collocation in English

meaningsofreciprocalandinteraction

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reciprocal
adjective
uk
/rɪˈsɪp.rə.kəl/
us
/rɪˈsɪp.rə.kəl/
A reciprocal action or arrangement involves two people or groups of people who behave in the same way or agree to help each other and give each ...
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interaction
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌɪn.təˈræk.ʃən/
us
/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈræk.ʃən/
an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to ...
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As such, they are the outcome both of a historical process ofreciprocalinteractionwith the body of mathematics and of external influences.
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Thereciprocalinteractionbetween receptor activation and ligand binding strongly resembles the interactions between two ligand binding sites.
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Reciprocalinteractionwith the professionals in the rehabilitation centre seemed to improve the participants' confidence in their ability to cope at home.
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We now discuss these new findings in terms of the way that they modify and extend thereciprocalinteractionmodel.
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Aminergic and cholinergic stimulation of the amygdala has been shown to modify sleep in the directions predicted byreciprocalinteractionfor the action of these neurotransmitters in the pons.
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Asperger syndrome is a form of autism characterised by abnormalities ofreciprocalinteraction.
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The world of the poem is one where dominance is key, and there is noreciprocalinteractionbetween individuals because of a lack of trust.
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Thisreciprocalinteractionhelps the child to discriminate its parents from others and helps develop emotional relationships with its parents.
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Thisreciprocalinteractioncan not be separated from the context and its cultural and historical constructions.
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During development, reciprocal interactions between differentiating glial cells and neurons are important for establishing neuronal connections.
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As the evidence presented in this paper demonstrates, many informal volunteer activities are reciprocal interactions that are embedded in family and community relationships.
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Cognition and behavior reflect the reciprocal interactions between neurobiological and experiential contexts of life that vary both within and across individuals.
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There are, in short, reciprocal interactions all the way along.
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Reciprocal interactions between neurons and glial cells are vital for the development, function, plasticity and maintenance of neural circuits.
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Three interwoven aspects of a beneficial rehabilitation experience were described : increased confidence in one's capability to cope at home, improved physical ability, and positive reciprocal interactions with the staff.
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Furthermore, this locking of parietotemporal-prefrontal circuits probably serves as the basis for the development of more complex reciprocal interactions between older individuals, which may be the precursors of true conversations.
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One must avoid falsely reifying ' the rural community ' by offering specific examples of reciprocal interactions that farmers have perpetuated and innovated in the face of market-formation.
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Through reciprocal interactions, the bud is induced into bifurcation, in turn inducing the surrounding mesenchymal cells to undergo a mesenchymal-epithelial transition, eventually leading to the formation of the epithelial nephron.
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Thus, both firms and workers can be better off when they rely on stable reciprocal interactions.
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When these roles are made available to other members of society to enter into and play out, the reciprocal interactions are said to be institutionalized.
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