specific performance

Examples of performance

performance
The recordings comprised uninterrupted performances of opera overtures, but they cost ten shillings and sixpence each, and needed an outsize turntable.
In fact, scientific performances offered some very radical ideas at a time when the theatre was still carefully censored.
There can be little doubt that performances were in the college hall; evidence, however, is lacking.
Scripts, however, eventuate in plays, which are performances, not texts.
The hypotheses investigated in these validity studies specify the anticipated relationships of the test under investigation with other tests or quantifiable performances.
Scores for context sensitive vowels and consonants were significantly interrelated even when performances at the phonemic and word-specific levels were controlled.
An alternative approach to context sensitivity is to devise distinct measures of performances on context sensitive spellings.
Thus, as one would expect, performances were generally poorest in the poor encoders.
Artefacts that do not have the qualities required for the performances of the commemorative ceremonies have much less chance of being preserved, promoted, and studied.
In attempting this, ritual performances are most effective due to their formalised character.
The nature of the feedback given to these performances is also critically important.
Final-year students are involved in the assessment of first- and second-year performances.
Although predominantly mentioned with respect to academic work, there were also mentions of positive feedback received from first performances.
The specific issue concerning women's participation in polyphonic performances will be returned to later.
The different methods give the different performances under different conditions.
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performance

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academic performance
The relationship of life change to academicperformance among selected college freshmen at varying levels of college readiness.
acoustic performance
Furthermore, mimetic aspects affected the relationships between acoustic performance and electroacoustic media, including fixed and live electronic components.
actual performance
The actualperformance effect will depend both on the application and on the network latency and bandwidth characteristics.
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