key mechanism

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key
adjective
uk /kiː/ us /kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk /ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/ us /ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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Examples of key mechanism

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The appropriate selection and weighting of local motion information thus seems to be one key mechanism underlying self-motion estimation in fly tangential neurons.
Swing leg control, therefore, is the keymechanism for walking speed control.
As with social policy in general, partnerships in sport policy have emerged to become the keymechanism of service delivery.
For them, the keymechanism is not plausibility but competition.
The keymechanism is expected to be the way the two boundary layers merge and how the resulting inner wake develops.
However, in uncompetitive environments, legitimacy is the keymechanism.
The keymechanism would be the new stakeholder schemes offering low administrative charges and relatively low contributions.
It was the keymechanism of imperialism at large.
The keymechanism that produces the real effects of money-based disinflation is the link between the nominal interest rate and the demand for real balances.
The keymechanism in their analysis is a state-contingent gain sequence.
The keymechanism underlying these strategies and institutions is encouraging transparency about others' motives and actions.
Ultimately, we believe that, as with dissociation and anomalous threat, the operative or key mechanism also involves alterations in normal consciousness stemming from the parent's fearful state of mind.
In combination with our receptive syntax data, considerations regarding semantic memory deficit in schizophrenia include the possibility that some type of timing dysfunction is a keymechanism.
Among other things, it provides powerful corroboration for a policy emphasis on poverty alleviation and the promotion of economic growth as a keymechanism for improving environmental results.
Teichman's book, thus, speaks to a current debate in the political science literature on market reforms while emphasising a keymechanism in their implementation : policy networks.
We are using health indicators as a keymechanism through which to target resources.
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The keymechanism for achieving that is the establishment of strategic area reviews.
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Local transport plans set out authorities' strategies for transport, and will be the keymechanism for pulling all that activity together locally.
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