Sentence examples for contingency items from inspiring English sources

This negotiating keeps going back and forth, and you give up those unwanted contingency items one at a time for a monetary tradeoff.

The United States Olympic Committee shipped the equivalent of 15 semi-trucks filled with equipment, uniforms, contingency items, yet some of the containers were stuck in customs until after the Games started.

Although the NCATS was not designed to assess mutually responsive orientation per se, it is based on direct observation and consists of separately coded behaviors for infants and mothers, including a subset of contingency items that assess the infant's and mother's responsiveness to one another.

Twenty of the items in the maternal NCATS score and twelve in the infant NCATS score are designated as "contingency items" because they are coded for behaviors made by one participant in the interaction (the mother or the child) in response to the other [ 14].

The repeat alert artefact in Beech incorporated three common contingencies (items requested early; overdue drug review; item listed in past drugs but not on the repeat list).

The literature on DIF is diverse because there is a wide choice of methodologies that may be employed, including contingency table, item response theory (IRT), structural equation modelling and logistic regression methods.

Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain the effect: associative learning of contingencies and item-specific control through word reading modulation.

Likely design changes include the following: Resources and duration needs for the project; methods for developing and producing the proposed project solution; identification of significant work items; contingency plans for specific elements of the project; program optimization elements.

In 2016, UNICEF preparedness efforts will focus on partner capacity mapping of pre-positioned items, contingency planning and the identification of best practices.

First, if significant DIF, uniform or non-uniform, is found, detailed examination of the three-way contingency table of item, scale score and grouping variable can help interpret the direction and nature of this DIF effect.

Most of the money is in the police retirement contingency fund, a new item added to the 2003 budget by the county executive, Thomas R. Suozzi.