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It's tricky to pinpoint the birth of basic, because the word as an insult is simply an exaggeration of what the word basic means in the vernacular.
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Theories that limit themselves to the equal distribution of basic means — this in the hope of doing justice to the different goals of all human beings — are often criticized as fetishistic, in that they focus on means, rather than on what individuals gain with these means (Sen 1980).
The nearly equal distribution of energy expenditures confirms Smil's assumption that energy is the universal currency [30] for people's welfare and can be seen as an indicator of the basic needs of the households, whereby "basic" means something different in different countries for Germany basic needs means an energy consumption which offers social participation.
For example, many garment factories in Bangladesh lack basic means for workers to flee in case of fire — specifically fire escapes and smokeproof enclosed staircases.
For a cross-cultural discussion of kinship systems, the basic means of social organization in most nonindustrial societies, use such keywords as family; kinship; and so on.
A United States district judge has rejected a claim by the BT Group of Britain that it invented hyperlinking, the basic means for navigating the Internet, in a case considered a test of who owns the basic Internet technology.
Weights are the basic means of long-term memory in neural networks[4].
Weights are the basic means of long-term memory in artificial neural networks.
The most basic means of incorporating genetic information in risk prediction is via family history, which has predictive accuracy proportional to both the heritability and prevalence of disease (the AUC of a single sibling family history is, where K is the prevalence and λ S the sibling relative risk, see Supplementary Methods for derivation).
Jung also focused more on individual differences; in particular he developed a typology of reaction styles, distinguishing between two basic means of modulating basic drives, introversion and extroversion.
Getting back to basics means you have to be good at them in the first place.
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