There are limits to this comparison, since it does not account for local police and forensic practices and contingencies in the application of the legislation, and because it does not take into account the date of implementation of the databases, methods of match counting, crime rates or policy changes over time.
Distinguishing between experienced contingencies and contingencies in the world is beyond the representational assumptions of traditional stimulus response (S R) theories and was largely ignored in Pavlov's (1927) seminal work on stimulus stimulus (S S) learning.
Despite the strong evidence that plants exhibit complexity and contingency in how they occupy and explore the soil environment (Mommer et al. 2012), the research performed to date is predominately a series of individual studies with idiosyncratic methods and measures, species selections and variable results.
We suggest that future research efforts consider information acquisition and decision-making under a broad range of ecological contexts and contingencies in light of the potential trade-offs between the behavioural and morphological outcomes of these processes and the pervasive vertebrate hemispheric specialization and expressed or masked side-biases.
"Civilisation is a good example; it teaches about material and geographical contingency in the progression of history.
This historical and cultural contingency in the definition of death is exemplified in the evolution of the concept of brain death.
"Provide good alternative approaches and contingency plans in the event your original approaches do not work," officials suggest.
Reactivated in 1988, the 10th Mountain Division's Combat Aviation Brigade supported the division as it undertook numerous operations and overseas contingencies in the 1990s, including Operation Restore Hope, Operation Uphold Democracy, and Task Force Eagle, as well as disaster relief following Hurricane Andrew.
Additionally, our nonaffective control tasks (assessing facial identity recognition and awareness of the CS+-US contingency in the conditioning experiment) showed no group differences, providing further evidence for a disproportionate impairment in emotional functioning in CD.
