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Examples of shaping

shaping

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The first three chapters develop this interdisciplinary approach by shaping a theoretical framework to guide the five case studies in subsequent chapters.
Furthermore, the problem choices of scientists determine the content of individual research programs, ultimately shaping the character of their contributions to scientific knowledge.
The shadow of legal controls plays an important role in shaping the constitutional culture and therefore the horizon of possibilities within which political actors operate.
The benefit(s) responsible for the shaping of a trait are the trait's functions.
The local eighteenth-century legal traditions also played an important role in shaping modern colonial legal culture.
On the role of perception in shaping phonological assimilation rules.
It will focus on points directly connected to the shaping of the military-administrative elite's special character.
Computer-based dose optimisation both volumetr ic and geometric are available along with interactive graphical dose shaping.
It affects the willingness to discuss by shaping one's anticipation of achieving deliberative uptake.
The process of automation triggered a sequence of problems and solutions that proved crucial in shaping the design of banking services.
Species-typical vocalizations such as crying and laughing are under minimal conscious control and are poor candidates for behavioral shaping.
The two constraints stipulate the distinct roles of the substrate and lexical-source languages in shaping the grammar of the contact language.
Instead, distinct contracting cultures were simultaneously shaping over time the social care industry, the precise product provided, and local authority contracting behaviour.
The second way through which social policy may affect sub-state nationalism is by shaping nationalist mobilization.
This represented a significant departure from the activism he had shown earlier in shaping the nation's external relations.
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