Sentences with phrase «modified by context»

How are behavioral decisions modified by context and experience?

2 «Any statement which we attempt to abstract from the whole context as the meaning» of the poem is seen to be qualified and modified by the context of the poem taken as a whole» (WWU 174).

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Various procedures would have been used by him in order to revise his text, the most important being the insertion, at various places in the original manuscript, of passages expressing his new vision, at times a few lines, at times even whole sections, with the intention of leading his eventual readers to interpret the whole context in the light of the point of view of the inserted materials.3 Ford proposes that Whitehead did modify his original manuscript accordingly a number of times before its publication in 1929, with the result that the final version of Process and Reality is actually the outcome of the superposition of texts from successive redactional strata over the original stratum made by the manuscript of the summer of l927.4

Though Leclerc carefully locates his thought in the context of the natural philosophy of the seventeenth century, he modifies it considerably, as we have said, by drawing especially on the insights of Aristotle, the schoolmen, and Leibniz.

I believe the presidential system if modified to fit into our local peculiarities and if practiced within the context of a federal system, can work well in Nigeria, but there must be some modifications particularly by devolving powers to the regions and the states.

The exact meanings of all of these sounds may be modified or emphasized by facial expression, tone / volume, body language and context (paralanguage).

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

This is consistent with the argument that, in general, meditation modifies attention, as highlighted by for example Valentine and Sweet (1999), Brown and Ryan (2003) and Sethi (1989), and by Cahn and Polich (2006) in the context of different brain imaging studies.

The modified four - indicator life satisfaction had a significant χ 2 - difference (Δχ 2 = 199.7, Δdf = 3, p < 0.01), and good fit [Satorra — Bentler scaled χ 2 (2, n = 3,987) = 9.14; RMSEA = 0.03; GFI = 1.00; SRMR = 0.010; NNFI = 1.00; CFI = 1.00; CVI = 0.95], which indicated that the scale would be better represented by four items which measure life satisfaction in similar contexts.