I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a constructive/positive suggestion (= involving helpful ideas, not criticism )
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Any evaluation should be fair and linked to positive suggestions for improvement.
a favourable/positive reception
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The movie got a favourable reception from audiences and critics alike.
a good/positive example
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The older boys should set a positive example for the rest of the school.
a good/positive image
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We want to give people a positive image of the town.
a good/positive impression
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He was keen to make a good impression on his boss.
a good/positive influence
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Television can have a positive influence on young people.
a good/positive/encouraging/hopeful sign
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If she can move her legs, that’s a good sign.
a positive approach (= showing that you believe something can be done )
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A positive approach is essential in beating pain.
a positive aspect
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Describe some of the positive aspects of technological development.
a positive contribution
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We want kids to grow up to make a positive contribution to society.
a positive correlation (= showing that two things are likely to exist together )
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They found a positive correlation between good diet and life expectancy.
a positive diagnosis (= saying that a disease is present )
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Following a positive diagnosis, you will be admitted for hospital treatment.
a positive emotion (= love, happiness, hope etc )
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Try to focus on your positive emotions.
a positive number (= a number that is more than zero )
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Maths is easier if you are dealing with positive numbers.
a positive outcome (= a good result )
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Everyone is hoping for a positive outcome to the talks.
a positive point
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Underfloor heating has a lot of positive points.
a positive step (= an action that will have a good effect )
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This is a positive step which gives cause for some optimism.
a positive/favourable reaction (= showing that someone agrees or likes something )
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There has been a positive reaction to the campaign.
a positive/favourable response
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The product met with a highly positive response from the public.
a positive/negative comment
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There were some very positive comments in the report.
a positive/optimistic outlook
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Despite her health problems, she has a positive outlook.
false positive
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50% of the 170 compounds were judged to be carcinogenic, but some of these might be false positives.
get a positive etc response
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She got an enthusiastic response to her suggestion.
give...positive reinforcement
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We need to give students plenty of positive reinforcement .
HIV positive/negative (= having or not having HIV in your body )
in a good/positive/relaxed etc frame of mind
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She returned from lunch in a happier frame of mind.
meet with a positive etc response (= get it )
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The change met with a mixed response from employees.
positive approach
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organizations which take a positive approach to creative thinking
positive discrimination
positive encouragement (= encouraging someone by saying positive things )
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It's important to balance punishment with positive encouragement.
positive results
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The charity has seen positive results from health care and farming projects.
positive role model
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I want to be a positive role model for my sister.
positive (= having a good effect )
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Cuts in federal spending should have a positive impact on America’s economic future.
positive (= showing that someone has a condition )
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My first pregnancy test was positive.
positive/beneficial (= good, or helping someone or something in some way )
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The incident had a very positive effect on his career.
positive/good/poor/negative self-image
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Depression affects people with a poor self-image.
positive/negative terminal
positive/negative
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The entire experience has been very positive.
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Many people reported having negative experiences when dealing with their local council.
positive/negative
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A positive attitude is essential if you want to be successful.
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Many teenagers have a very negative attitude towards cooking.
proof positive (= definite proof that cannot be doubted )
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Here is proof positive that she's wrong.
receive a positive etc response (= get it )
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The proposal has received a positive response from most left-wing voters.
test positive/negative (for sth)
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Athletes who test positive for steroids are immediately banned.
the positive/negative side
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On the positive side, the authors have assembled a wealth of useful material.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Economic and social inequalities are viewed as positive and constructive forces.
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Some view unconstrained election spending as positive , exposing voters to more debate about substantive issues.
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She saw the 1975 Act's emphasis on adoption as positive .
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Invariably, these family definitions, whatever their content, are construed as positive by those that subscribe to them.
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The woman whose smear is classified as positive will not get to choose what happens afterwards.
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First, there are the cases of action in some direction viewed as positive or negative.
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Crosland's response to Plowden was as positive as that of Boyle to Robbins.
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In dozens of written comments about Brezzo and Rice, not one could be construed as positive or supportive.
more
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The latter's research suggests that patients receiving clozapine may well cost services less over time by producing more positive clinical outcomes.
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We hope that they will help you to form a more positive business relationship.
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Want to build a more positive outlook.
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However, for Aquarians born in 1934, 1946, 1957 and 1969, the picture is infinitely more positive .
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Focusing on revenue is a thousand times more positive and productive than focusing on costs, which can prove debilitating and negative.
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That's why the response at these unseated shows is so much more positive .
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One more positive criticism of the Economic theory of regulation is that it lacks sufficient structure to make it testable.
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There is, however, a more positive dimension.
most
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One of the most positive things the Catholic Church had done for screwing was trying to stamp it out.
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I believe helping others is one of the most positive , salubrious forms of social calisthenics.
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In this day and age almost all of the most positive and far-reaching developments in pollution prevention originate in industry.
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The most positive sign was that the rattan lashings of the main hull seemed to be holding firm.
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Love Love is the most positive emotion of all.
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It is, indeed, our most positive war aim.
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The third and most positive option is to work together towards a firmer commitment to the marriage.
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We found a way in which we could help the black community directly and in the most positive way with considerable sums.
very
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He has a very positive attitude about death.
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During the second semester of her junior year, Maggie had what was to prove to be a very positive experience.
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You're the sort of person who values good relationships and basically, feels very positive about life.
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Examined in microcosm, that has had a very positive effect.
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Gavin Hastings's side were very positive in their approach to the Five Nations Championship.
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The outcome of our strategizing and her researching and networking was actually very positive .
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As you approach Day 2, I hope you will be feeling very positive about your chances of success.
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This tells your prospective employer that you are very positive and that you know where you are going.
■ NOUN
action
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A number of examples of positive action in different countries are noted.
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None the less, no positive action to improve race relations in Washington was taken.
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If we can take positive action to improve communication, then the whole community will benefit.
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In other states, the school board may have to take some positive action for the teacher to achieve tenure.
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Unless there's a positive answer, the Profitboss will take positive action to eliminate the non-contributing resource.
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She loved electricity -- ghost spirits in positive action .
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A fall in morale tends to be insidious but can be rapidly reversed with definite and positive action .
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Creative leadership, positive action with the special learner program is a ready made role.
approach
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Ways of building on these strengths to achieve a more positive approach to assessing elders will be returned to later.
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Colangelo and his staff are taking the positive approach as far as season tickets are concerned.
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It's just the positive approach that the pupils and school need.
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And to find some positive approach to future developments in my country.
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It is a positive approach and unlikely to result in the speaker talking in an unnatural way.
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The new President signals the advent of a new generation with a new and more positive approach .
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Stressing the positive approach to social interaction is an important part of teaching children to be sociable.
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It is high time for this neglect to yield to a more open discussion of these issues and a more positive approach .
aspect
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However, Mr Putin was also keen to point out the positive aspects of the meeting.
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One need only be very ill, or have an ill child, to experience the positive aspects as well.
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Instead try to emphasize the positive aspects of your age.
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Remember, there are positive aspects to an interview even if you are not finally offered the position.
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But it had its positive aspects .
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He preferred talking about the positive aspects of his career in Escondido.
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The positive aspects of this procedure include the full and detailed consideration of the individual needs of each child.
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Jack uses selective information, highlighting the positive aspects of a program.
attitude
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He has a very positive attitude about death.
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Share your positive attitude with others Doing something special for another person is the best way to shake off negative feelings.
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But we want her to grow up with a positive attitude .
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If we can help keep a girl in school, the effect will be a positive attitude toward education.
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It is important, however, to ensure that a positive attitude is maintained towards the sources.
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If positive attitudes about religion seem to encourage health, negative attitudes might jeopardize it, he reasons.
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Amazing what a positive attitude can do for you!
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The power to inspire a positive attitude in others is a priceless professional asset.
change
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And hope persists that the group's larger political efforts will bring about positive change in their own lives.
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They offer a way to plan positive change .
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It must be designed to constitute an essential component of those forces making for positive change in our country.
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In Toxic Work, I will help you explore ways to create positive change from difficult and challenging situations.
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Nevertheless, the moves towards positive change are being frustrated both by threats from right-wing activists, and by sectarian conflicts.
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Some positive changes , however, seem to be in the wind at Amphi.
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The therapist should also reward any positive changes by expressing satisfaction and by indicating their potential long-term benefits.
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We offer it here as a possibility for positive change .
charge
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Rather than being balanced throughout, they have spots of excess negative or positive charge .
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This charge meshes nicely with the slight positive charge on one side of water molecules.
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The positive charge of the protons generates an electrostatic field, which binds the negative electrons of the atom to the nucleus.
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As in electricity, a positive charge glances away from a positive charge: like charges repel each other.
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This momentarily reverses the positive charge on the outside.
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As in electricity, a positive charge glances away from a positive charge: like charges repel each other.
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In such an environment the electrons would oscillate in ways which would depend upon the details of the positive charge distribution.
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Likewise, regular protons have a positive charge , but antiprotons are negative.
contribution
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In this manner, you will be making a real and positive contribution to the development of the advertising.
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Nor has the potential and positive contribution of musicians been widely acknowledged in the process of reform.
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They make a positive contribution to nature.
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As such, a career in local government offers a challenge and opportunity to make a positive contribution to society.
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The decision whether or not to sell a product will depend on which ones make a positive contribution .
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To enable the researcher to contribute new and significant ideas, and to make a positive contribution to knowledge, and 2.
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Does he recognise that dialogue is not criticism by Ministers of everyone else's proposals without making any positive contribution themselves?
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Yet in both its anti-art and anti-dada stages it makes a positive contribution to modern art.
correlation
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By producing trend and level analyses they suggest a positive correlation between publication rates of research groups and their output.
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For instance, there is a positive correlation between marital dissatisfaction and the reported intensity of premenstrual symptoms.
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This increase in gastric secretion showed a positive correlation to the total number of cigarettes smoked.
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A positive correlation of smoking with incidence of Alzheimer's has recently been observed.
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A positive correlation was observed between the gastric juice ammonium and severity of gastritis.
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There might even be some positive correlations between these two sets of variables.
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There was a positive correlation between the number of months elapsed since a patient's most recent attack and amylase secretion.
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A positive correlation was found between glycosylated haemoglobin concentration and the prostacyclin concentration necessary to inhibit ADP-induced platelet aggregation by 50 percent.
discrimination
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There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations.
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The report did not call for positive discrimination but suggested that male, old-school attitudes still prevailed in hospitals.
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This suggests positive discrimination in favour of older people.
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Inevitably it will include strong elements of positive discrimination .
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This was a form of positive discrimination in favour of locals.
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The caste system, he says, will never be abolished by social reform or positive discrimination in favour of Untouchables.
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There were, however, a number of variables other than positive discrimination policies, which accounted for this relationship.
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Even with a more aggressive policy of positive discrimination , it is doubtful whether geographical inequalities can be overcome.
effect
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Look at the likely positive effects of it.
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The governor also expects increases in funding for K-12 education to have a long-term positive effect on gang problems, Tremblay said.
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In other words, general levels of income inequality have a positive effect on the incidence of political violence.
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But there are positive effects for individual workers as well.
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In this way the audit regime has the positive effect of improving professional standards.
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However, including blacks in real estate ads does produce positive effects for black readers.
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This has a definite positive effect on our state of mind.
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Examined in microcosm, that has had a very positive effect .
evidence
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Just when these walls were later added remains a vexing question as so little positive evidence has even now been recovered.
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They look for positive evidence that the business is soundly based and a good lending risk.
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However, the issue is settled by positive evidence not by ingenious explanation of the failure to confirm the idea.
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Indeed, not for many years yet do we come upon any positive evidence of revival.
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Is there any positive evidence that might prompt us to adopt the more complex position that differentiation occurs as well?
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There is no positive evidence as to how the regnal year was reckoned in periods before that time.
experience
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Is that too powerful a word for the positive experiences of old age?
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So would a series of short-term customer service improvement projects aimed at providing positive experiences with change.
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It provides a positive experience for prisoners who're serving their time.
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During the second semester of her junior year, Maggie had what was to prove to be a very positive experience .
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However, activity is likely to increase elsewhere as developers with positive experiences in London seek to replicate them in other cities.
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The opportunity to work with First Interstate over these past few months has been a very positive experience .
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Externalities can be positive experiences , as well.
feedback
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Another possible origin of positive feedback is the finite internal impedance of the bias supply.
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However, allosteric positive feedback is not sufficient to produce sustained oscillations.
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The curve shown suggests a positive feedback that works towards disaster.
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It can be shown that simple positive feedback systems fail to display oscillations { 91 }.
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He found that positive feedback was predictably given most often for accuracy and quantity of reading.
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But in swarm systems, positive feedback can lead to increasing order.
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Lack of appreciation and positive feedback from those around you.
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Nor is positive feedback necessary for oscillatory behavior.
image
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Can a positive image of lesbianism promote it?
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None the less, there are always people waiting in the wings to discredit a positive image .
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A positive image in conflicting times.
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All these movies had those so-called positive images black folks claim we are dying to see.
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Reagan's aptitude in front of the television camera, his ability to project a positive image , has been a priceless political asset.
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I have to do what I can to project a positive image .
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In fact, it's a positive image that should be encouraged.
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These favors helped to play up my positive image .
impact
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A United Nations report showed that foreign investment can have a positive impact on the poor only if it is regulated.
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Most managers work in government, after all, not to enrich themselves but to have some positive impact on their community.
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Order, cleanliness, and fresh, well mounted pictures and pieces of writing have a positive impact .
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Finally, the research on feedback suggested that it had a positive impact on performance because it was instructional.
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My college nutrition textbook devoted an entire chapter to the positive impact of starches on early development, potatoes main among them.
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I like having a positive impact on people, an impact on their salaries and career opportunities.
influence
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The bureau is hard pressed for staff but may nevertheless decide that such work has wider positive influence .
light
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Yet the presentational imperative to project the policies of government in a positive light masked the existence of inner doubts.
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You can always interpret things in a more positive light or a more negative light.
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It was as if a door had opened before him into a dim but positive light .
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Books portraying black men in a positive light are simply not part of the growth industry.
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This may help one to see the beauty and wisdom of the natural world in a much more positive light .
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By contrast, 57 percent viewed Dole in a positive light , while only 27 percent saw him in a negative light.
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Present everything in a positive light .
note
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On a more positive note , the electrics are very good for a guitar in this price range.
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On a positive note , Maj.
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On a more positive note , he might help the Republican challenger to pose as a mould-breaker in New York politics.
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One positive note at the session was Elfin Forest residents' expression of respect for Ron Brown, their resident deputy.
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Make sure that the appraisal interview ends on a positive note with the other person feeling up, not down.
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Although the book ended on a positive note in that the enemy's group leader tried to let bygones be bygones.
outcome
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But there was one positive outcome .
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Unfortunately, these efforts did not yield positive outcomes for Sean, his parents, or his teachers.
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The clergy will view a positive outcome as a signal of good will, encouraging them to keep their buildings open.
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We practiced running those same situations through and looking for a different and more positive outcome .
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But a positive outcome is less certain than it was three months ago.
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We are looking forward to positive outcomes in the next few months, and will keep everybody informed of the progress.
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There is another very positive outcome of this exercise.
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But there were positive outcomes of the Great Strike and the Depression too.
patient
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Decreased concentrations of activated pepsinogen were found in H pylori positive patients only.
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Toxoplasma-specific antibody production was confirmed in the positive patients by study of second samples taken 2-4 weeks later.
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Martin etal found that among Helicobacter pylori positive patients ingestion of NSAIDs significantly increased the risk of gastric ulceration.
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Activated pepsinogen was significantly reduced in the stomach of H pylori positive patients only.
reaction
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A positive reaction was seen in the bowel wall, both in patients with Crohn's disease and in controls.
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From every event we received enthusiastic, positive reaction , and requests you come back for a repeat engagement.
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I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs.
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They got an immediate, positive reaction to their new gallery.
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Naipaul learns that the only positive reaction is acceptance; but in a whole year he doesn't achieve it.
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He said he got a positive reaction from council members to his remarks about Western aid but declined to elaborate.
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Many substances, particularly food extracts, often give false positive reactions in allergy skin testing.
reinforcement
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So positive reinforcement is anything that happens soon after the behaviour in question that is welcomed by the recipient.
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What are the sources of negative and positive reinforcement people might expect from organizational arrangements? 4.
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This positive reinforcement of feelings in association with specific substances or behaviour becomes the basis for subsequent addiction.
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Teachers are not the only ones who may give positive reinforcement .
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The following case shows how a penalty such as time-out can be combined with positive reinforcement of pro-social behaviour.
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This is known as positive reinforcement .
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Another useful way to use punishment is in combination with positive reinforcement .
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Sometimes positive reinforcement does not require words.
relationship
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These theories predict a positive relationship between daily volume and volatility, as illustrated in Fig. 8.4.
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She simply let her skills at building positive relationships with others speak for her.
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A number of factors combined to produce a very positive relationship between the research, the researchers, and the team.
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This is an exercise teaching parents how to build up a more positive relationship with their child by attending to good behaviour.
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Dan and his teacher already had a positive relationship .
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The positive relationship between volatility and time is illustrated in Fig. 8.2.
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However, in the workplace, where productivity thrives on positive relationships , it can be a different matter.
response
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Response sheets were sent out to these 200 with a covering letter from the agency concerned and 85 positive responses were received.
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Nevertheless, teachers may improve their effectiveness by increasing the frequency of positive responses while reducing the negative.
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I hope you get a positive response from listeners.
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Interviews conducted by the consultant with a sample of twenty-four employees elicit a positive response to team meetings.
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The Hon. Member said that he welcomed the Minister's positive response .
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I never expected such a positive response from Lynne.
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O is an average background reading,-a negative response , and + a positive response.
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Behavior that elicited a positive response from the environment increased in frequency.
result
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As the onset of leprosy is slow, it will take at least 10 years to produce positive results .
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As they began to see the bad effects of their own waywardness, they also could see positive results of change.
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Few approaches would produce more positive results on the actual curriculum in schools than review and retraining in this field.
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He was startled at the positive result of his action now.
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Get advice from your clinic about early intervention treatment options and support for people who have positive results .
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All people with positive results will talk to counselors, Noble said.
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It may not produce a positive result .
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But it did have one positive result .
role
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In 1963 Kennedy moved to take a more positive role in the struggle for civil rights.
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Maybe you'd know how to act if you had some more positive role models and some real heroes in your life.
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It has a positive role to play in an organisation, and that role is particularly emphasised in this chapter.
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There was no positive role model to follow, and plenty of negative ones not to follow.
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The post-war period until the late 1970s witnessed governments playing a positive role in stimulating demand through reflation of the economy.
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But how are they to play a more positive role ?
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Pressures are being exerted to give the Community a more positive role in industrial policy.
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Say a big hello to the positive role model.
side
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We need to ask whether the interest in Machiavellian behaviour is detracting from the positive side of political activity.
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Your editor should remind you of the positive sides of your writing.
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There is, none the less, a positive side to his teaching.
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The positive side of all this is that the game provides hours of entertainment for children who are up to the challenge.
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However, up to now we have only considered the positive side of the relationship between sports participation and health.
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On the positive side , in most other respects work-inhibited students compared favorably with their peers.
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When are we going to get an article on the positive side of skins?
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On the positive side , sailing lets my husband and I air our creative differences out there with the gulls.
sign
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Muddy colours in the aura indicate negative emotions or ill health; clear colours are generally a positive sign .
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However, the curiosity factor was a positive sign as far as Phoenix Hockey is concerned.
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The positive signs on both indicate that these variables were probably indicating availability of leisure time.
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For investors, the Ketchum acquisition is a positive sign that Omnicom intends to stick to its strategy of growth through acquisitions.
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It's a very complex area but I do think there are positive signs in favour of nuclear.
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The most positive sign was that the rattan lashings of the main hull seemed to be holding firm.
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Not everyone saw braces as a positive sign , however.
step
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She says that it's a positive step .
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This of course was all a positive step .
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Only a missionary would see this as a positive step in and of itself.
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It was a positive step but it was very weak in the way it sought to cover the children.
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This is a positive step which promises to improve standards and taste, and gives cause for some optimism.
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Everywhere, however, positive steps have been taken to deal with it.
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And in doing that they have taken the first positive step towards solving it.
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And it will allow them to take positive steps to help prevent getting the disease or limit the impact of its complications.
test
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Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added.
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Two positive tests could result in a suspension.
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The disclosure about their son's positive test result was made at 2 to 3 weeks.
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Patients with a normal exercise test often do well while those who have a dramatically positive test do not.
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All patients with sclerosing cholangitis and positive tests for anti-lactoferrin had ulcerative colitis.
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In an attempt to reduce administration costs, in future we will only notify your drug control officials of positive test results.
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But the proportion of positive tests was up ... to five point four percent from four percent.
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I could knock up some lightweight special frames and do a positive test on their value.
thing
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The one positive thing over Crimble has been our defending.
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When I talk about another team, the only thing I talk about are positive things.
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One of the most positive things the Catholic Church had done for screwing was trying to stamp it out.
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I said that positive things should be emphasized.
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The positive things were the training opportunities provided for them, and the lads we met.
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Making that flight was such a positive thing for him.
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Companionship and friendship are positive things we can offer.
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People have gone back to their communities and tried to do positive things .
value
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At first it sounds the same as our earlier description of the positive value of doubt.
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The loss may be an object or person, or perhaps an aspiration which held some considerable positive value to the person.
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We will encourage changes to the education system which place a positive value on a pluralist, diverse and multicultural society.
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Hence the positive value attached to mobility and sharing in their societies.
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Choose a positive value for K and a value for c in between 0 and 1.
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Yet there is undoubtedly a very positive value placed on formal education by black families.
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There is a more humble and positive value attached to Morrissey's lyricism.
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Moreover, to imagine these does seem to be to imagine something with quite strong positive value .
view
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Engineers thus need to explain their role to encourage a more positive view of the profession.
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Counselling should seek to present a positive view of retirement, but one which stresses the need for individual commitment and effort.
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The co-existence of negative and positive views of women in mainstream psychology is connected to the discipline's general uneasiness about subjectivity.
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Clearly for this majority, this suggests a positive view of the various issues raised in the questionnaire.
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However, these positive views should be treated with some caution.
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Implicit within this strategy is the promotion of a positive view of health.
way
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When you talk to a large audience in a positive way , some critics don't dig that.
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But, hey, the pattern played out in other, more positive ways too.
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Whatever a non-teaching staff member's job, she or he may contribute in a positive way to its success.
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However, few make any attempt to define it or shape it in positive ways .
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Thus the research impacted on the team in several important and positive ways .
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They lack the readiness to respond in a positive way to the complex social and emotional demands of school.
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Such feedback should be offered in a positive way leading to further commitment.
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Stress, I think, enters into it but mainly in a positive way .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an independent/a positive/a free etc thinker
positive/negative reinforcement
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However, because reinforcement is derived from the termination of noxious events, it is referred to as negative reinforcement.
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So positive reinforcement is anything that happens soon after the behaviour in question that is welcomed by the recipient.
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Sometimes positive reinforcement does not require words.
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Teachers are not the only ones who may give positive reinforcement .
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The general principle on which response-cost is based, is referred to by psychologists as negative reinforcement .
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This is known as positive reinforcement .
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This, however, would not be positive so much as negative reinforcement , ie it was nice when the pressure stopped.
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What are the sources of negative and positive reinforcement people might expect from organizational arrangements? 4.
think positive/positively
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Eva was jubilant, thinking , see how you limited yourself when you did not think positively.
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Failure to think positively means that negative thoughts have come into his mind.
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Forget about your feelings, think positively.
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However, rather than feeling gloomy about your lack of horseflesh try thinking positively about your situation.
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Learning to think positively and to look towards healthy outcomes can help considerably in any diet programme.
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One should always think positive, as the good doctor said.
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Take a deep breath and think positive thoughts.
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When things were going so bad for us in December, the one guy who made people think positive was Barry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Are you sure you locked the door?" "Yes, I'm positive ."
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positive role models
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a positive message for the youth of today
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a very positive experience
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I'm absolutely positive I haven't made a mistake.
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Public response to the ads has been overwhelmingly positive .
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She said she was positive the exam was next Tuesday.
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The fact that he's breathing on his own again is a positive sign.
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type AB positive
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We're glad that something positive has come out of the situation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A positive correlation was observed between the gastric juice ammonium and severity of gastritis.
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He's a convert to the power of positive thinking.
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He has a very positive attitude about death.
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It means putting weakness on one side, and openly acknowledging the positive worth of the person.
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The clinic reported back that some samples tested positive for pregnancy.
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The increase was a positive response to a strategic initiative.
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This new weak current had also to be electrically charged because in beta decay the neutral neutron turns into a positive proton.
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false
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These subjects had comparatively low positive titres in 1978 and may have been false positives.
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Thus for every 80 correctly predicted we will have 20 false negatives and 200 false positives .
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By definition they are all high risk and there is thus no significance to the issue of false positives .
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But Salsburg wondered how many of these might be false positives .
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Statistics show that 25 % of the adult population is HIV positive , and the rate of infection is still rising.
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One of my friends is HIV positive and I let him kiss my year-old son.
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It was not until some months into my job that I realised one in 10 people in Rundu was HIV-positive .
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In 1987, Mead took a blood test and learned he was HIV positive .
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Many were HIV-positive , and greeted the court victory as a new lease of life.
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If she fails the compulsory medical test and is found to be hiv-positive , she will be thrown out.
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As well as having to deal with Darren, Adrian is also worried about the possibility he himself could be HIV positive .
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In 1994 she was banned from competition for four years after testing positive for testosterone.
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Hunter, nearly ruined it all with the announcement that he'd tested positive four times for steroids.
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The sixth, whose name is reported to be Eduardo Castro, tested positive in Nevada but fought later in California.
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Back then, it was believed that ten percent of the men testing positive 10? the antibody would become ill.
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Farmers whose fields test positive for the disease have the option of planting a different crop next year, he said.
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But Salsburg wondered how many of these might be false positives.
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Deciding to choose the positive is to celebrate the birdsong, regardless of the weather.
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It may even be that what at first appeared to be a problem could turn into a positive .
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Study their words carefully, though, and you find many more possible negatives than positives.