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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Common terms"”.
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Development and Validation of a Silhouette Scale to Measure African-American Mothers’ Perception of the Body Size of Their Two to Four Year Old Children
… mothers were able to accurately describe in common terms: underweight, normal weight, and overweight.</p> <p><em>Keywords: </em>Obesity, adiposity, mother’s perception, culture, toddlers</p> <p><strong><br /> </strong></p>
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The Impact of the Gig Economy on the Well-being of Independent Contractors. A Case Study of Uber, Bolt and Gokada
… freelancers, and self-employed are the most common terms used by platforms to describe gig economy workers. Consequently, it is vastly different from the traditional economy's demand-oriented, long-termed, and formal structure. Gig workers have access to relatively flexible, potentially …
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Making sense of religion and religions : the value and limitation of religious unity in diversity
… inclusivism, and pluralism have become common terms for sorting out different responses to religious diversity that have appeared within the Christian tradition. In this study, I argue that each of these responses is a different form of what could be called "unity in diversity." …
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Life History Variation of Common Terns in the Gulf of Maine
… and environmental conditions.</p> <p>Common tern (<em>Sterna hirundo</em>) life history phenotypes vary between islands in the Gulf of Maine. Common terns on offshore islands (>10km from mainland) and nearshore islands (5 to 10km from mainland) lay smaller clutches, hatching chicks …
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Evaluation of Annotation Performances between Automated and Curated Databases of <i>E.COLI</i> Using the Correlation Coefficient
… between these databases because of the limited common terms in the ontology annotations. Translation libraries were used to extend the number of BASys terms that could be compared to the gene ontology terms in EcoCyc. Additional, non-ontology terms and metadata in BASys were compared to EcoCyc …
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Addressing the knowledge transfer problem in secure software development through anti-patterns
… by software errors that occur due to developers’ common mistakes. Insecure software development practices are common due to a variety of factors, which include inefficiencies within existing knowledge transfer mechanisms based on vulnerability databases (VDBs) and pattern-based approaches, …
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Breathlessness Descriptors in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Versus Congestive Heart Failure
… of this study was (a) to characterize the most common terms COPD and CHF patients use to describe their breathing, (b) to identify the frequency of dyspnea in patients with COPD and CHF, and (c) to determine the intensity of dyspnea in these populations.</p> <p>A purposive sample of 60 patients, …
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Procesamiento modismos: Un enfoque psicopragmático
… and typological analysis of the most common terms used to define idioms. This analysis highlights the vagueness with which the different terms are used. Thus, the definition and the typology proposed for idioms at the end of the chapter are only based on pragmatic criteria. Chapter 2 …
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Playing the Bad Guy: How Organizations Design, Develop, and Measure Red Teams
… groups of adversary subject-matter experts for common themes, differences, and best practices. The data collection builds on grounded theory—i.e., identification of the methods, tools, processes, and personnel as the organizations understand and develop their red teams as part of their …
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Aspects of the Remnant Concept in the Gospel of Matthew
… remnant concept in Matthew to a set of lowest-common terms, greater emphasis is placed on the evangelist's presentation of Jesus as the remnant of Israel, whose role of sonship he re-enacts with divine approval. Following the call of the first disciples, an ever-widening circle of disciples is …
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Slow to Understand: the Disciples in Synoptic Perspective
… instance, this tradition is recognizable in the common terms and concepts of comprehension/incomprehension in Old Testament theophanic and didactic contexts and in later canonical and extra-canonical Jewish writings of the Second Temple period as well as in Greek literature, especially in texts …
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A comparative literary analysis of cattle praise poetry of the Tonga people of Bweengwa and Chivuna
… anaphora and hypophora were among the common terms found in the aesthetic content of the poems from both areas. To a large extent, there are more similarities than differences in the cattle praise poetry of Bweengwa and that of Chivuna. This could be attributable to the fact that the …
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A comparative literary analysis of cattle praise poetry of the Tonga people of Bweengwa and Chivuna
… anaphora and hypophora were among the common terms found in the aesthetic content of the poems from both areas. To a large extent, there are more similarities than differences in the cattle praise poetry of Bweengwa and that of Chivuna. This could be attributable to the fact that the …
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Optical Graph Recognition
… is used by human users who prefer a picture. Common terms are diagram, scheme, plan, or network. The objective of Graph Drawing is to transform a graph into a visual representation called the drawing of a graph. The goal is a “nice” drawing. In this thesis we introduce Optical Graph …
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The knowledge of basic genetic terms and available terminology in the South African Sotho languages
The use of indigenous terms during a genetic counselling session has the potential to foster a better understanding between a genetic counsellor and patient. However, it is unknown if there are specific terms for commonly used English genetic terminology in the South African indigenous languages. …
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Method for theoretically determining the locus and location of the transmission zeros in microwave filter networks
… characteristic equation (TZCE) are obtained in terms of element values of the filter network. The locations and loci of TZ's are obtained by solving the relevant equations. These TZCE's are derived by taking advantage of the bridged-T structure for the cross-coupled part. The reason for this …