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Motivating operation — Motivating operations or establishing operations, are a concept in behaviorism involving the effectiveness of consequences in operant conditioning. They explain why a person wants or does not want something and why they act or do not act in a… … Wikipedia
purpose — pur·pose / pər pəs/ n: an objective, effect, or result aimed at or attained; specif: the business activity in which a corporation is chartered to engage pur·pose·ful / fəl/ adj pur·pose·ful·ly adv pur·pose·ful·ness n Merriam Webster’s Dicti … Law dictionary
end — I (intent) noun aim, ambition, aspiration, bourn, consilium, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, desired result, destination, dream, expectation, goal, guiding principle, nope, idea, intended result, intendment, intention, mission,… … Law dictionary
Harmonic analysis — is the branch of mathematics that studies the representation of functions or signals as the superposition of basic waves. It investigates and generalizes the notions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms. The basic waves are called harmonics… … Wikipedia
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Joe Soucheray — is a radio talk show host syndicated throughout the American Midwest on the Hubbard Radio Network. He broadcasts his show Garage Logic from KSTP AM 1500 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It currently airs from 2 p.m to 5:30 p.m. CST Monday through Friday … Wikipedia
SK8 — Overview of SK8 SK8 (pronounced skate ) was a pioneering multimedia authoring environment developed in Apple s Advanced Technology Laboratory from 1988 until 1997. The original motivating idea for SK8 was to realize a development environment that … Wikipedia
Transmission disequilibrium test — The transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) was proposed by [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve db=pubmed dopt=Abstract list uids=8447318 Spielman, McGinnis Ewens (1993)] as a family based association test for the presence… … Wikipedia
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ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… … Universalium