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Policymakers have also began devising their own plans with benefit guarantees.
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My model starts with rank-and-file legislators and applies only to constitutions devised by such actors.
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By devising simple, local mechanisms to get conflicts aired immediately the number of conflicts that reduce trust can be reduced.
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Several techniques have been devised, but the general idea is often a variation of the rounding approach.
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In particular, no universally applicable quantitative definition of complexity has been devised.
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Chapter 7 focuses on the noxious mita or forced labour system in which he explores strategies devised by communities to resist or ameliorate its impact.
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We showed how the system can be devised so as to force the agents to be trustworthy.
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An -stable notion of active dereferences can be devised, but would be more complicated.
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To unite these two methods of working, strategies for this second type of interactive improvisation were devised, based on object-cues.
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In order to identify the problems that undermined the study, a questionnaire was devised by the lead researcher.
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Certainly no-one has ever devised a formula for calculating such a value.
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Only in recent years have special kinetic methods and traps been devised for perceiving intermediates.
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A new research tool had to be devised to examine the specific research questions of the study.
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A reference model, devised for each scenario, indicated critical and relevant cues.
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An experimental situation was devised in which a subject was telephoned in order to arrange the repair of a household appliance.
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Whenever a new corpuslinguistics effort is launched, it usually devises from scratch its own ranges of grammatical categories and codes.
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A side effect of this lack of homogeneity has been the proposal of many different temporal logics devised for reasoning about the different calculi.
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Happily, there was a warm-up period to make the informant feel relaxed, and a multiinterviewer technique was also devised to better the subjects' output.
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With this article we have devised a new methodology for the documentation of languages with specific reference to multilingual areas.
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A number of tools have been devised to assist the author of a grammar.
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A systematic methodology for the analysis of electroacoustic music has yet to be devised.
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He also devises a necessary and sufficient condition for the saving rate path to be nonmonotonic.
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He also devised a highly efficient tax system.
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Similarly, new forms of education will be devised whereby computer games skills are integrated into learning curricula to make learning more enjoyable.
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Several ways of escape were devised to avoid ceilings, in collusion with land reform officials and their political bosses.
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We have now devised a simplified and complete method of categorization of coronary arterial patterns.
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The extent to which their typology model has however been effectively applied towards devising protections for various types of communities remains unclear.
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Nevertheless, some caution is warranted in devising supportive measures.
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In devising the play, the performers had discussed at some length how personal the play should be.
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Several people have devised ways of getting people to forget about the tape-recorder, with varying degrees of success.
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Surely the needed understanding goes way beyond that embodied in the simple models devised by economists so far.
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The coding scheme was devised to obtain measures of voluntary and involuntary movements.
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To prevent the energy of the system to grow unboundedly a mechanism to subtract it from the system must be devised.
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To deal with non-determinism a rich language of "strategy annotations" has been devised to allow choice in a broad space of search and backtracking strategies.
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The reason for devising two subgroups in this way was to provide a more subtle indicator of effectiveness.
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Even as late as the second half of the fifteenth century, some of the most primitive arms devised by man were still standard military issue.
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A computer program, no matter how "intelligent," cannot but embody all the ideological commitments and assumptions of those who have devised it.
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A fourth search strategy, which concentrated on identifying utility values rather than quality of life measures, was then devised (23).
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A number of methods of permutation were devised.
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A system of laws and punishments that promotes the general interest could be devised with some precision if the foundation were self-interest.
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In another thread, design languages for formally describing the constituent components and structure of objects, have been devised and extensively studied.
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However, as better means of alignment are devised and precision of measurement improves, the effects of dynamics will become an issue.
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Secondly, perpetually fascinated with the inner child, ' they never devised an exit strategy from their youth ' (p. 176).
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The term has since lost favour, as new models and labels for dementia care have been devised.
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Under this concept are grouped statistical methods devised to extract the valuable part of a noisy signal knowing a priori information.
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Similarly, experiments could be devised to explore the other published benchmarks.
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To conquer this difficulty, we devised an approach in which two methods of pattern recognition are combined.
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The task of devising an ' artificial ' allotment norm was prohibitively complex.
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Importance was often attached to classroom 'culture' and to devising effective strategies for learning and teaching that would not restrict opportunities for introducing 'change'.
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Codes were established and revised using an iterative group process of reading transcripts, testing codes, and revising or devising new codes.
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The people have devised varieties of instruments for containing the effects of uncertainties.
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Later, however, he devised polychoral textures that required obligatory instruments and allowed for supplementary singers (capellen).
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The philosophy of the new laboratory was to study the simplest problems that could be devised before moving to more difficult and complex cases.
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Thus, ef®cient irrigation schedules have been devised for different water supply regimes with non-limiting fertilizer application.
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The reason for this state of affairs is partly the problem of devising a key that children can follow.
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A word-finding test was devised to provide a measure of expressive vocabulary.
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Within the broad category of logic formalisms specifically devised for handling time and events, there are variants.
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The 1625 prayers and service he devised were a form of national confession and purgation.
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In order to address this question, the present study was devised.
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With one stroke the iconoclast is now able to start the most powerful suction and force pump ever devised.
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A different membrane model has been devised recently that may be an even better membrane model than micelles.
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Can a mode inference system be devised which ensures non-floundering of goals?
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The computerized test devised in this study allows us to assess color vision easily and quickly.
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When no formal channels were available, they devised their own.
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Thereafter, the party leadership in the two chambers devised divergent strategies.
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The authors have also devised specialist crossover and mutation operators.
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A number of devices have been devised to allow people with deficits in one sensory modality to use another modality to gain information.
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They devised "acoustic alphabets": acoustic features corresponded to single letters, and syllables were sequences of discrete acoustic letters.
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An explanation along similar lines can be devised for passives.
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In the first place, what was in the mind of those who devised the design?
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To counter this evasion, the ward secretary devised a strategy that entailed blanket punishment of the villagers for these actions.
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By devising a system that is easier to understand, it becomes easier to prototype animation sequences fairly quickly.
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We then devised a compact set of primitive operations over it.
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The present experiment was devised to study how elementary school children used connectives at the local and the global text levels in picture-elicited oral narratives.
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Nature, it seems, has devised a particularly simple way of achieving this end.
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We devised a method for identifying the question/answer relations holding between the propositions of a text.
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In this section, we concentrate on the architectural decisions in devising an optimal disambiguator, given a morphological analyzer.
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We have also devised linear-time algorithms for feature structure subsumption and equality checking.
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Spatial strategies are devised to facilitate the process of choosing and leading.
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Several different types of questionnaire and interview were devised, and their results were tested against the observed behaviour of the individual informants.
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We have highlighted the need to take research into account when devising curricula for teaching pronunciation.
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Details of the tag set and the tagging system devised are given.
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Cell-marking techniques had not been devised at the time, so inferences made about gastrulation movements or blastomere fate could not be tested experimentally.
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Most of the scales devised to be sphere specific have applied aims.
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We therefore devised an alternative strategy that uses the information available in all the noncoding sequence and thus extrinsic to the window of interest.
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Imaginatively, however, negative moves of this kind have to be completed by devising new pictures to replace the old ones.
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They are purely private means devised by the neurotic to achieve what is achieved in society by collective effort.
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You may be asked to do the activity in this chapter of the book or a similar one devised by your lecturers.
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More subtle and effective, but much more involved, ways of achieving the same end have been devised.
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In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
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The students devised and built a model based upon an electronic solution under computer control.
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The process of curriculum development which involves devising the material and trying it out.
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To be successful in recruiting, his organization has devised different offer packages to attract employees.
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To illustrate the above, we describe the communicating walker's model devised to study branching colonial patterning.
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In an attempt to better differentiate jealousy from envy in children, investigators devised two different situations within a social triad to distinctly elicit jealousy.
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The analytic approach devised for this study provides a promising method for such future studies.
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The atmosphere cannot be nationalized, and countries collectively have not thus far succeeded in devising an international regime for regulating the emission of greenhouse gases.
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