Sentence examples for fixed entities from inspiring English sources

Haslam et al. (2012) present a case for moving away from a conceptualization of personality traits as deterministic (i.e., fixed entities that interact with fixed properties of the environment to produce fixed health behaviour) towards a dynamic interactionism whereby the individual is changed through the nature of social interaction.

Species are not fixed entities created at one time.

Receptive fields are changing and not fixed entities.

The approach is easy to use, effective and can readily accommodate varying degrees of preference regarding adjacencies and fixed entities.

An important message for conservation is that neither the environment nor species are fixed entities, therefore a wise strategy for conserving endangered species should keep them capable of further change.

However, as one of our design goals is to provide a scalable fully-distributed solution that does not require fixed entities, we cannot rely on a constrained set of dedicated notary servers.

Space is not a fixed entity.

Family is less a fixed entity than a kind of weather system that keeps coming back.

Surrendering control of the work's structure to individual online visitors challenges the notion of a classical composition as a fixed entity.

These distinctions assist the critic in judging each mode according to its proper ends instead of regarding beauty as a fixed entity.

In five studies, the authors examine how an organization's fixed (entity) or malleable (incremental) theory of intelligence affects people's inferences about what is valued, their self- and social judgments, and their behavioral decisions.