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The set of all binomial distributions is called the family of binomial distributions, but in general discussions this expression is often shortened to `` the binomial distribution '', or even `` the binomial '' when the context is clear.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

What is new in the context is likely to be made more prominent than what is not.

Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

The personal pronouns and substitute one are normally unstressed because they refer to what is prominent in the immediate context.

If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??

But when what is new in a particular context is also fairly obvious, there is normally only light stress or no stress at all.

Here again, in the written language it is possible to help the reader get his stresses right by using underlining or italics, but much of the time there is simply reliance on his understanding in the light of context.

It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Yet in the contemporary context this is precisely what one must not do.

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean, or simply the mean or average when the context is clear, is the central tendency of a collection of numbers taken as the sum of the numbers divided by the size of the collection.

Power analysis is often applied in the context of ANOVA in order to assess the probability of successfully rejecting the null hypothesis if we assume a certain ANOVA design, effect size in the population, sample size and significance level.

In the case of complementary allophones, each allophone is used in a specific phonetic context and may be involved in a phonological process.

* Bar ( law ), in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas ; the process of qualifying to practice law ; and the legal profession

Or, what differentiates between the cognitive process of recognition ( seeing hints of something before remembering it, or memory in context ) and recall ( retrieving a memory, as in " fill-in-the-blank ")?

A context switch is the computing process of storing and restoring the state ( context ) of a CPU so that execution can be resumed from the same point at a later time.

A context switch can mean a register context switch, a task context switch, a thread context switch, or a process context switch.

This context switch can be triggered by the process making itself unrunnable, such as by waiting for an I / O or synchronization operation to complete.

The kernel does not spawn or schedule a special process to handle interrupts, but instead the handler executes in the ( often partial ) context established at the beginning of interrupt handling.

Once interrupt servicing is complete, the context in effect before the interrupt occurred is restored so that the interrupted process can resume execution in its proper state.

Since the operating system has effectively suspended the execution of the first process, it can now load the PCB and context of the second process.

Coevolution is " the process where the design agent simultaneously refines its mental picture of the design object based on its mental picture of the context, and vice versa.

" This term, which was variously used by other Chinese philosophers ( including Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, and Hanfeizi ), has special meaning within the context of Daoism, where it implies the essential, unnamable process of the universe.

The dialectical aspect retains the Hegelian method within this materialist framework, and emphasizes the process of historical change arising from contradiction and class struggle based in a particular social context.

Systems theory, in this context, may be regarded as an extension of Braid's original conceptualization of hypnosis as involving a process of enhancing or depressing nervous system activity.

This created the necessity for the transfer of allegiance and practice from the old gods and heroes to the new religion, and for the gradual adaptation of the old system of image making and veneration to a Christian context, in the process of Christianization.

It has been used particularly in the context of the Northern Irish peace process during the negotiation of the Belfast Agreement, as a neutral name for the proposed council.

Furthermore, Liedtke introduced the concept of the direct process switch, where during an IPC execution an ( incomplete ) context switch is performed from the sender directly to the receiver.

The process must then be repeated to return the results, adding up to a total of four context switches and memory mappings, plus two message verifications.

Hartshorne proceeded within the context of the theological system known as process theology.

The Eighth, marking the end of the middle period, returns to a combination of orchestra and voice in a symphonic context.

* Part-of-speech tagging, the process of marking up a word in a text ( corpus ) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definition, as well as its context — i. e. relationship with adjacent and related words in a phrase, sentence, or paragraph

But people who explain intentional behavior have several choices to make, and the theory identifies the psychological antecedents and consequences of these choices: ( a ) giving either reason explanations or " causal history of reason ( CHR ) explanations " ( which refer to background factors such as culture, personality, or context — causal factors that brought about the agent's reasons but were not themselves reasons to act ); ( b ) giving either desire reasons or belief reasons ; and ( c ) linguistically marking a belief reason with its mental state verb ( e. g., " She thought that ..."; " He assumes that ...").

In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging ( POS tagging or POST ), also called grammatical tagging or word-category disambiguation, is the process of marking up a word in a text ( corpus ) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definition, as well as its context — i. e. relationship with adjacent and related words in a phrase, sentence, or paragraph.

The Yr rune came to be seen as the " life rune " inverted and interpreted as " death rune " ( Todesrune ) During the World War II era, these two runes ( for " born ", for " died ") came to be used in obituaries and on tomb stones as marking birth and death dates, replacing asterisk and cross symbols (* for " born ", ✝ for " died ") conventionally used in this context in Germany.

In this context, the " purple " stands for the ink-stain marking the index fingers of first-time voters in the 2005 Iraqi legislative election ( the semi-permanent stain was to prevent fraudulent multiple voting ).

In this context, the Cutting of the elm was portrayed as marking the split between the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion.