Sentence examples for instrumental control from inspiring English sources

To the Editor: Benedict Carey suggests "instrumental" control of emotions to influence others is a mark of strong "social skills".

This was something quite different; a mature 18-year-old of phenomenal instrumental control who also happened to be a reflective and essentially creative musician.

We are still far from rectifying a gross imbalance in funding and focus, one that has stemmed, in my view, from an ardent desire for an increasing instrumental control over the world and ourselves.

An early instrumental control system was the thermostatic furnace developed by the Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel (1572 1634), in which a thermometer controlled the temperature of a furnace by a system of rods and levers.

The instrumental control and data processing were handled by an IBM PC/AT compatible PC.

Masslynx 4.1 software was used for instrumental control, and acquisition and processing of the data.

Instrumental controls drive a rotational stage with a fixed axis of rotation relative to a prism-based sample interface mounted on an inverted microscope stage.

The limited accuracy obtained in historical Casimir force measurements based on macroscopic instrumental controls stresses the extraordinary difficulty of this sort of measurements (the reported agreement between theory and experimental data in [3] is ≈15%).

An instrumental yoked control group was used to control for frequency of food reward; in this control, the positive nosepoke contingency remained intact but the availability of reward on a given trial was determined by the outcome (successful = omission or failed = nosepoke response) of the same trial for the 'master' rat under the omission contingency.

Preliminary ANOVAs comparing the Instrumental and Control groups showed no difference between groups in SES (p>.1); Control SES mean = 4.64 points, SD = 0.74, Instrumental SES mean = 4.78 points, SD = 0.78.

On the other hand, methods making use of exclusion restrictions (instrumental variables, control functions, 'fuzzy' regression discontinuity designs) can explicitly address selection on unobservables, arising from specification errors, endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity [6].