Examples of consistency

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The proof follows by induction on the definition of consistency.
The main result of this section is a proof of consistency between the closure-based semantics and the substitution-based semantics of the previous section.
He found remarkable consistency among these measures: some regional governments were simply more effective and responsive in meeting their citizens' needs than others were.
They were linear and logical in argumentation, and achieved consistency in part by excluding ambiguities and contradictions.
Two senior staff members reviewed each interview for completeness and consistency.
Within the context of ecologically based sound synthesis and composition, consistency among auditory cues is a basic requirement for establishing sound model constraints.
Various names for the different groups have been proposed, but there has been little consistency in nomenclature or attempts to unify the different datasets.
We have to ensure internal consistency of the domain model.
2), which suggests again the importance of analyses based on consistency for a study of this kind.
Emergency measures could not be taken that often, nor could they sustain consistency over such a long time.
Actually, no adaptationist has ever suggested that mere consistency should be the standard of evidence used to identify function.
As such, adaptationists often fail because mere consistency does not test the relative likelihood of alternatives.
A consensus tree of length 769 and consistency index of 0.922 was found, indicating a precise assignment for the cladogram.
The consistency checking criteria is mainly dependent on the statistical results of exper t opinions.
They used a complex logic algorithm to per form simultaneous consistency checking of all variables under consideration.
Anxiety control, awareness, attention and concentration, consistency and loss of form, all precede professionalism, progress and visualisation.
Accordingly, we assessed the effect of consistency in these subsets indirectly by comparing the effect of language mixing on the two word types.
The reliability of an instrument is relevant because the consistency or stability of a measure sets the upper limit for the validity of the instrument.
All of the tests showed a reasonable degree of internal consistency.
The lack of consistency is also re-ected in the use of policy instruments.
First, the survey included questions designed to test for consistency.
The results showed little consistency in stress placement.
We performed stepwise regressions with number of letters as the first variable, followed by first log frequency and then consistency or vice versa.
A second piece of evidence comes from studies of spelling-sound consistency effects.
Differences in orthographic consistency between languages raise empirical questions in the study of bilingual speakers.
Yes, from a rigidly analytical point of view, where one aims for maximum consistency of one's system of thought.
I will start with consideration of the first requirement of consistency.
What exactly interacts with spelling-sound consistency in word naming?
Therefore, no further analyses were conducted on the consistency of semantic responses.
Until a few years ago, it was assumed that the word recognition procedures occurred across all alphabetic systems, regardless of their orthographic consistency.
Such characteristics likely provide a degree of consistency in the otherwise variable spoken input.
Of the two criteria: (a) internal consistency, and (b) external connectivity, the second is by far the more important.
To maintain consistency with the original scale, a single score was computed to reflect overall self-esteem 10-item a .73!.
Thus, a person who sees herself as unreliable may proceed to do something in fact unreliable, if another person comments on her consistency.
Is the idea of purely internal consistency of choice bizarre?
Traditionally, the axioms of expected utility theory are regarded as criteria of consistency.
Nonetheless, we re-estimated equation (3) by only using the large farm observations, in order to test for consistency with the full sample regression.
Numerics were tested under a variety of space and time discretisations to ensure (where applicable) consistency in, for example, blow-up time.
First, we may question the accuracy and consistency of judgements assigning two-word combinations to one set or the other.
Remarkable consistency of differences was observed over time.
The daily coherence rating reflected the consistency of a child's attachment behaviors each day across the three distressing situations in the diary.
An effor t was also made to retain consistency of questions and measures to the degree developmentally possible and appropriate.
In addition, these children's individual patterns of performance were examined for consistency with predictions based on the theory of mind hypothesis.
First, there was considerable consistency in findings based on the two measures.
The consistency both in reporters and in the nature of questions asked may lessen the possibility of confounding influences.
First, there is moderate temporal consistency in levels of salivary cortisol during the adolescent period.
After examining the consistency of the measurement model across time, multiplegroup analyses were conducted to test measurement invariance across groups.
Second, the correlations among the indicators were examined for consistency with the measurement models for the main analysis.
The conjunction of our weak syntactic notion of consistency and deductive closure entails the stronger semantic notion.
However, in these undertakings the issue of model consistency seems to have been ignored, with potentially serious implications for explanatory credibility of the resulting models.
In 2, we perform a scaling argument and reduce the existence problem to an algebraic equation for consistency.
We would accordingly expect relative but not absolute consistency.
There are two ways in which between-level consistency may be brought about.
Are there other ways of ensuring model consistency?
How is internal consistency of these models to be assessed?
In this way consistency was maintained in the portion of the diurnal rhythm measured across subjects.
We describe these, in standard terminology, as completeness, consistency and deductive closure.
As yet, the only consistency is that a maleonly ballooning population has yet to be observed.
Furthermore, the common assumption that consistency per se is always better has been challenged by these findings.
I believe that an adequate analysis of rational choice cannot accept the evaluation of the consequences as given, and examine only the consistency of preferences.
The point remains, however, that feedback consistency effects were not anticipated by feedforward models.
In view of these difficulties, additional samples were collected subsequently, including samples from the same flow at more than one locality, to check for consistency.
The result is manure which is poor in consistency and poorly mixed with plant material.
In part their consistency is most apparent in the actual typographic form of the entries.
There is lack of consistency as to how to deal with these items, as if writers don't know what to do with them.
Consistency between different frame separation times was good and these data were then combined.
A lack of consistency in methods of data collection has already been mentioned as a problem when comparing rates of premature birth.
Confidence is instead based on the internal and external consistency of the single-jet static pressure measurements, as presented in the earlier paper.
Consistency implies that alleles that are recessive in their effects on fitness will also be recessive in their effects on other traits.
One further consistency check on the boundary-layer structure can be made.
However, there is a very clear consistency ; in the trend of both sets of calculations where comparison is possible.
In order to address the low internal consistency, child and parent repor ts of antisocial behavior are repor ted separately for some analyses.
However, paternal consistency was positively related to children's efficacy in nonalcoholic families.
In the current sample, the internal consistencies were a .71 for the peer scale and a .73 for the self-scale.
High internal consistencies were found for each scale.
The documents will first be scrutinized in terms of their internal and external consistencies.
Swallowing is assessed using a variety of graduated food and fluid consistencies.
The only consistencies among the vectors are in the earliest and latest time regions.
Examination of the items divided into these four categories revealed some very clear consistencies in the data.
Intermediary stages during changing consistencies are formed, between concrete and abstract, natural and artificial, and so on.
While there can be consistencies between recordings taken at different spatial scales, there is little reason to expect them.
There were some consistencies between the two sources.
Rather, exposure to input that has prosodic, phonological, and statistical consistencies is sufficient to jump-start the learning process.
Comparisons across trajectory groups for the young adult outcomes indicated some consistencies with the risk factors identified during adolescence.
In the present study, internal consistencies were .80 and .84 for the internalizing and externalizing subscales.
Although there were minor variations in the linear orderings that best fit the data for the various analyses, there were considerable consistencies across the orderings.
Such research would broaden our understanding of relations between the structural consistencies in input and patterns observed in early language development.
The measures included in the composites are described below, followed by a description of the composites and the internal consistencies.
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