shared environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsharedandenvironment
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shared
adjective
uk/ʃeəd/us/ʃerd/
owned, divided, felt, or experienced by more than ...
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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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It is interesting that both of these processes would act assharedenvironmentinfluences within a behavioral genetic design.
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The marital status gives information about thesharedenvironment, while siblings give information about both genetic and environmental variation.
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Nonetheless, these two design artifacts necessitate caution in considering the precise magnitude of thesharedenvironmentparameter estimates.
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Agents interact with each other in asharedenvironmentthat is modelled as a mathematical structure.
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There were significant genetic andsharedenvironmentcorrelations among the preschool traits.
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First, it presents the proportion of the phenotypic correlation between vocabulary and grammar that is explained by genetic,sharedenvironmentand nonshared environment effects.
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For relative support genetic factors were detected in females but not males, while for confidants, thesharedenvironmentwas important in females but not males.
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Of course, these differences in the quality of thesharedenvironmentmight well be irrelevant to the behavior under study.
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Both models indicated a role for shared environmental factors, withsharedenvironmentappearing to be more important for the female twins.
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Furthermore, estimates of thesharedenvironmentand passive g-e correlation are inflated by any genetic consequences of assortative mating.
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Genes were deemed to account for 23% of the variance in this factor,sharedenvironmentfor 63%, and nonshared environment for 14%.
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Each of the environmental variables was asharedenvironmentbetween siblings with the exception of the number of ear infections.
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Their results indicated thatsharedenvironmentplayed no role in the etiology of either disorder.
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As discussed earlier, the genetic,sharedenvironment, and nonshared environment correlations assess the overlap between the respective factors that influence this pair of language scales.
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Perhaps the strongest candidate for thesharedenvironmentinfluence is the twins partaking in antisocial behavior together, either alone or within a delinquent peer group.
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