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air conditioning
air conditioning mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. In the process, dust, soot, and polle... Read more
isogamy
isogamy , in biology, a condition in which the sexual cells, or gametes, are of the same form and size and are usually indistinguishable from each other. Many algae and some fungi have isogamous gametes. In most sexual reproduction, as in mammals for example, the ovum is quite larger and of diff... Read more
anomie
anomie a social condition characterized by instability, the breakdown of social norms, institutional disorganization, and a divorce between socially valid goals and available means for achieving them. Introduced into sociology by Emile Durkheim in his study Suicide (1897), anomie also refers to... Read more
pleurisy
pleurisy , inflammation of the pleura (the membrane that covers the lungs and lines the chest cavity). It is sometimes accompanied by pain and coughing. The inflammation may be dry or it may be accompanied by an effusion, or fluid, that fills the chest cavity; when the effusion is infected, the cond... Read more
physical therapy
physical therapy or physiotherapy, treatment of disorders of the muscles, bones, or joints by means of physical agents—heat, light, water, manual and electronic massage, and exercise. Stroke, arthritis, fractures, and nerve damage are common conditions treated. The type of treatment neede... Read more
Black Belt
Black Belt term applied to several areas of Mississippi and Alabama, the heart of the Old South, which are characterized by black soil and excellent cotton-growing conditions. The Black Belt area was historically important as the nation's main cotton producer in the mid-1800s. Soil depletion, erosi... Read more
hardpan
hardpan condition of the soil or subsoil in which the soil grains become cemented together by such bonding agents as iron oxide and calcium carbonate, forming a hard, impervious mass. It is disadvantageous to farming, interfering with the circulation of moisture in the soil and with the growth of r... Read more
learning
learning in psychology, the process by which a relatively lasting change in potential behavior occurs as a result of practice or experience. Learning is distinguished from behavioral changes arising from such processes as maturation and illness, but does apply to motor skills, such as driving a car... Read more
amnesia
amnesia , [Gr.,=forgetfulness], condition characterized by loss of memory for long or short intervals of time. It may be caused by injury, shock, senility, severe illness, or mental disease. Some cases of amnesia involve the unconscious suppression of a painful experience and everything remindful ... Read more
blue baby
blue baby infant born with a congenital heart defect that causes a bluish coloration of the skin as a result of cyanosis (deoxygenated blood). The color is most noticeable around the lips and at the tips of the fingers and toes. The cyanotic condition occurs when a large portion of the venous blood... Read more

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Conditional
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law CONDITIONAL Subject to change; dependent upon or granted based on the occurrence of a future, uncertain event. A conditional payment is the payment of a debt or obligation contingent upon the performance of a certain specified act. The right...
Most-Favored-Nation Principle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...policy. Until 1923 it adhered to its conditional form and thereafter to unconditional...nations eligible for MFN status. Under conditional MFN treatment, third parties must bargain...example illustrates the difference between conditional and unconditional MFN treatment. Assume...
CONDITION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...expressing this relationship: (1) By a conditional clause introduced by the conditional subordinating conjunctions if and unless...fulfilment of the condition that it hurts. Other conditional subordinators include as long as , assuming...
Regression Towards the Mean
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...the mean of Y for a given X . This is the conditional mean of Y . One can see that the conditional mean of Y given X is not the line of equality...the mean of X . In fact, the line of the conditional mean for the situation described, that...
Spending Power
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...s degree. When Congress allocates conditional funding, it must do so unambiguously...the consequences of noncompliance. Conditional federal spending must relate to a national...or individual interests. Finally, conditional spending may be invalidated if it is...
Conditioning
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...or conditioned. The bell tone is a conditional stimulus because it was unable to elicit...salivation that eventually occurred to the conditional stimulus alone (the bell tone) is now called a conditional response. Conditional responses are...
Nonparametric Regression
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...x1C0; θ ) is often called the conditional mean function. In ordinary least squares...length K < ∞ and the conditional mean function is assumed to be linear...a particular form is assumed for the conditional mean function, although linearity in...
Conditioned Tolerance
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior ...time of drug administration are the conditional stimulus (CS), while the effect...predrug cues coming to elicit as a conditional response (CR) the compensatory, restorative response. The conditional drug-compensatory CR would tend...
Generalized Least Squares
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...variances across these observations, conditional on the explanatory variables. Both...postulates the existence of a linear conditional expectation for a scalar, dependent...Using matrix notation, the linear conditional expectations for the sample are E...
Pavlov, Ivan
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...this discovery of conditioned, or conditional, reflexes and his subsequent experimental...have been translated as “ conditional, ” because the name was applied to reflexes conditional upon relations among stimuli. In...

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conditional
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...terms: Western aid was only granted conditional on further reform. 2. Gram. (of...n. 1. Gram. & Philos. a conditional clause or conjunction. ∎...a statement or sentence containing a conditional clause. 2. Gram. the conditional...
conditional equation
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing conditional equation An expression of the form e...e n hold then the equation e holds. Conditional equations have many properties in common...equations ; in particular, sets of conditional equations possess initial algebras and...
conditional instability
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology conditional instability An atmospheric condition in which otherwise stable air...latent heat of condensation. In such cases the instability is thus conditional upon the relative humidity of the rising air. See also instability...
conditional jump
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing conditional jump ( conditional branch ) A jump that takes place only if a specified condition holds, e.g. specified register contents zero, nonzero, negative, etc.
conditional immortality
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church conditional immortality. The theory that immortality is not a necessary attribute...rather that it is bestowed on the whole being at the Last Day and is conditional on the believer's faith in Christ or, in modern times, on his behaviour...
conditional stimulus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology conditional stimulus See CONDITIONING .
conditional bid
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management conditional bid See takeover bid .
conditional response
Book article from: A Dictionary of Biology conditional response ( conditioned reflex ) A learned response that develops to an initially ineffective stimulus in classical conditioning .
conditional sale agreement
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management conditional sale agreement A contract of sale under which the price is payable by instalments and ownership does not pass to the buyer (who...
conditioned or conditional stimulus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology conditioned or conditional stimulus See CONDITIONING .

Thesaurus entries related to "Conditional"

conditional
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English conditional • adjective   1. an offer conditional on references synonyms : dependent on, contingent on, subject to, based upon.   2. given a conditional offer synonyms : qualified, having conditions...
contingent
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...incidental, accidental, possible, fortuitous, uncertain, random, haphazard. phrase: contingent on/upon   help contingent upon resources synonyms : conditional on, dependent on, subject to, hinging on, controlled by.
unlimited
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...unconstrained, unrestrained, unchecked, unbridled, uncurbed. antonym: restricted.   3. unlimited power synonyms : total, unqualified, unconditional, unrestricted, absolute, supreme. antonyms: conditional, restricted.
subject
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...put through, treat with, expose to. phrase: subject to   1. it is subject to budgetary approval synonyms : conditional on, contingent on, dependent on.   2. horses are subject to coughs synonyms : susceptible to, liable to, prone...
provisional
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English provisional • adjective  a provisional contract | get provisional permission synonyms : provisory, temporary, interim, stopgap, transitional, to be confirmed, conditional, tentative, contingent; inf. pro tem. antonyms: permanent; definite.
dependent
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English dependent • adjective   1. dependent on circumstances synonyms : depending on, conditional on, contingent on, determined by, subject to.   2. dependent children synonyms : reliant, helpless, weak, defenseless...
qualify
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...ground, train, educate, coach, teach, instruct.   3. qualify her statement synonyms : modify, limit, make conditional, restrict.   4. qualify her criticism synonyms : modify, temper, soften, modulate, mitigate, reduce, lessen...
absolute
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...full, utter, sovereign, omnipotent.   5. absolute monarch synonyms : despotic, dictatorial, autocratic, tyrannical, authoritarian, arbitrary, autonomous, sovereign. antonyms: qualified; conditional; limited.
tie
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...tied to a productivity agreement synonyms : link to, connect to, couple to/with, relate to, join to, marry to; make conditional on, bind up with.   4. they tied for second place synonyms : draw, be equal, be even, be neck and neck...
qualified
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...practiced, experienced, expert, capable, able.   2. a qualified approval synonyms : modified, limited, conditional, restricted, bounded, contingent, confined, circumscribed, reserved, guarded, equivocal, stipulated, adapted...

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Conditional Release Period For FDA-Regulated Products.(Food and Drug Administration)
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 7/19/2007; 700+ words ; ...the Customs Regulations imposing a conditional release period of up to 30 days...Customs custody is deemed to be a conditional release; these amendments also allow FDA to extend the 30-day conditional release period. What is a Conditional...
Conditional specification of statistical models. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Magazine article from: Technometrics; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Conditional Specification of Statistical Models...directly, one can derive marginal and conditional distributions of every hue and color...the marginal distribution of X and the conditional distribution of Y given X = x for each...
Conditional probative value: neoclassicism without myth.
Magazine article from: Michigan Law Review; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; INTRODUCTION The concept of conditional relevance is an essential aspect...by the jury," the doctrine of conditional relevance "seems particularly...hypotheticals and cases by which conditional relevance is usually explained...
Conditional intent to kill is enough for federal carjacking conviction.(Transparent Adjudication and Social Science Research in Constitutional Criminal Procedure)
Magazine article from: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...takes the vehicle, and because neither conditional nor unconditional intent are mentioned...intent' to commit a wrongful act may be conditional."(5) Thus, over the dissents of...6) the Court held that proof of conditional intent was sufficient for conviction...
Obtaining conditional permanent residence
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter; 11/10/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...children of U.S. citizens (USC) obtain conditional permanent residence if they were married...the time their case is approved. The conditional basis of the status can only be removed...cannot be filed. Joint filing If the conditional resident is still married to the petitioning...
The impossible compromise.(conditional sentences)
Magazine article from: Alberta Report; 2/28/2000; ; 700+ words ; A Supreme Court ruling on conditional sentences leaves judges even more...has allowed judges to substitute conditional sentences for some crimes that...merited prison. Technically, conditional sentences are jail terms served...
Introduction to conditional variance swaps.(LEARNING CURVE[R])
Newspaper article from: Derivatives Week; 10/9/2006; ; 700+ words ; Conditional variance swaps are similar to standard...illustration, the graph below shows how conditional variance swaps only include variance...considered here. The payoff at expiry of a conditional variance swap is: Payoff = Multiplier...
EFFECTS OF UNREINFORCED CONDITIONAL SELECTION TRAINING, MULTIPLE NEGATIVE COMPARISON TRAINING, AND FEEDBACK ON EQUIVALENCE CLASS FORMATION.
Magazine article from: The Psychological Record; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...students learned a series of unlinked conditional discriminations designed to induce a repertoire of unreinforced conditional selection of comparison stimuli...pretraining then learned the new conditional relations AB, BC, and CD in each...
Models of conditional variance for bond prices.
Magazine article from: Journal of Fixed Income; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...instrument is constantly changing. Recent advances in modeling conditional distributions of economic time series have greatly improved models of conditional expected price changes and conditional (expected) variance of price changes. Conditional distributions...
Section 713.245 conditional payment bonds - panacea or Pandora?(Florida)
Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...1991, F.S. [sections] 713.245 (Conditional Payment Bond Statute) became effective...held that a payment bond containing the conditional payment language and legend required...underlying subcontract did not have conditional payment language. The purpose of this...