Sentence examples for contiguous items from inspiring English sources

This is especially designed to prevent potential "set effects" in which students identify contiguous items as items measuring similar attributes (Bong 1997).

Whilst the doctor and nurse components largely reflected contiguous items within the questionnaire, it is of note that an item addressing the ease of getting an appointment with the practice nurse (question 23) was contiguous with other items reflecting doctor or nurse care, but actually loaded with other non-contiguous items in the access component.

A key direction to pattern-based biclustering is to consider multiple levels of noise by following one of the three strategies illustrated in Figure 7. First strategy (reduced number of items) hierarchically joins contiguous items (items are viewed as being ordinal and no longer nominal) to mine biclusters over matrices with different number of items.

Dependency sensitivity, defined here as the ability to recognize that two non-contiguous sensory items are related (e.g. belong to the same perceptual class), is part of everyday sensory experience and crucial for many aspects of human cognition [ 1– 3].

An N-Gram is a contiguous sequence of N items from a given input.

Thus, our data show the existence of two topographically contiguous hippocampus-dependent processes: an early (350 400 ms) item-memory process followed by a later (500 600 ms) context-memory process.

Although strongly statistically significant, the difference in psychological distress level between those who complained of voice disorders and those who did not remains rather slight, as a 4-point difference in the MH-score corresponds to a single substitution between two contiguous modalities in the response of one or the other item among the five of the MH-questionnaire.

The mean absolute differences in total score between the neutral category response and the contiguous satisfied/dissatisfied response categories (both merged into a single response group) for TSQM item #14 were considered a valid estimate of MID values for the overall scoring of the SATMED-Q instrument using an anchor-based approach.

There was additional early upper theta and alpha synchrony during successful compared with unsuccessful encoding (∼8 12 Hz; 0 0.2 s; PT: p = 0.002; TT: T = 5.6, p = 0.00085; CSPT: p = 0.029; observed contiguous cluster 342 pixels; Figure 2, Figure 2 figure supplement 1), which might reflect enhanced item-specific attention and perception during successful encoding (Düzel et al., 2005).

"Baltimore County and Baltimore City are contiguous.

One contiguous layer will do.