This study utilised a 2 (worry status: worrier vs. non-worrier) × 2 (performance feedback: success vs. non-contingent failure) × 2 (strategy advice: advice vs. none) between subjects factorial design to investigate the effects of worry on performance and persistence by manipulating performance feedback and strategy advice.
Peabody's offer is contingent on the failure of Macarthur's Gloucester bid and subject to the usual regulatory approvals.
In SHAM, we employ the neighborhood replication: Once the key is stored at a node, it will be directly replicated at the node's neighbors only as a safeguard that the key will still be an accessible contingent upon the failure of its host.
Debonding in adhesively-bonded lap joints is a detrimental failure mode contingent upon the level of stresses develped in the adhesive.
The achievement of the Kentish contingent put Edward's failure to engage the Danes with his whole army in a poor light.
Democratic and judicial systems were significantly compromised as success or failure became contingent on good relations with Rajapaksa and his relatives, with many government posts stacked with his supporters.
This fits with current biochemical knowledge which indicates deamination of 5 mC converts a 5 mC·G base pair into a T-G mismatch that, contingent on a repair failure, results in a C⇒T transition mutation.
Debt holders might have borne substantial losses in insolvency, but fears of the wider consequences of insolvency — not only interruptions to ordinary banking services, but also contagion to other banks and disruption of financial markets more generally — forced governments to make taxpayers bear the contingent liabilities of bank failures".
It's bad enough we have the ever-popular "my-success-is-contingent-on-your-failure" mantra governing almost every adult-oriented reality show, but do we really need to sink to the level where we're offering our kids up as bait in exchange for a shot at the big time?
Prior to the explosive growth of vagueness research after 1975, ordinary language philosophers amassed a panoramic battery of analyses suggesting that gaps are involved in presupposition, reference failure, fiction, future contingent propositions, performatives, and so on and so on.
