particular
(noun)
A specific case; an individual thing as opposed to a whole class.
Examples of particular in the following topics:
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Instructional Models and Applications
- Promoting student-ownership, using a particular medium to focus attention, telling stories, simulating and recreating events, and utilizing resources and data on the Internet are among them.
- Three instructional models that implement problem-based inquiry will be discussed next with particular attention to instructional strategies and practical examples.
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Using the First Person in Academic Writing
- If poems are pieces of art made of the particular material of language—just as musical compositions can be thought of as pieces of art made of the particular material of sound—then addressing the broader question will allow us to move to the particularized question with at least some stable footing. "
- I always think of poems as pieces of art made of the particular material of language, just as I consider musical compositions to be pieces of art made of the particular material of sound.
- The use of first person pronouns demonstrates how the author's biographical particulars enhance or expose something significant about the topic that they are writing about.
- The paper clearly represents the process of your particular thinking about a given topic influenced in a multiplicity of ways by a variety of sources you interacted with while researching.
- Using objective language helps shift your presence as a writer into the background in order to foreground the particulars of the argument that you are presenting.
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Portfolio Diversification and Weighting
- Weighting is the percent allocation a particular investment type receives within a portfolio.
- Mutual funds and ETF's invest in underlying pools of investments specific to a particular investment objective.
- These objectives can range from specific to one particular industry to something that achieves a balanced portfolio of blended assets.
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Surprises and Returns
- Surprise announcements can trigger a chain of events that affect the stock price of a particular company by changing investor expectations.
- Surprise announcements can trigger a chain of events that affect the stock price of a particular company, competitors and other companies that might be suppliers to or customers of the primary company.
- A merger or an acquisition could signal to an analyst that one particular company is financially weak, and it could downgrade its long run outlook for that company.
- Any of this news has the potential to impact a particular company and, in some cases, competition, suppliers, and customers of that company.
- Investors who are actively making investment decisions based on a particular company or within a particular industry need to be aware of how a surprise announcement might affect their investment.
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Inputs to COGS
- Cost of goods sold (COGS) refer to the inventory costs of the goods a business has sold during a particular period.
- Most businesses make more than one of a particular item.
- Therefore, costs are incurred for multiple items rather than a particular item sold.
- Determining how much of each of these components to allocate to particular goods requires either tracking the particular costs or making some allocations of costs.
- Parts and raw materials are often tracked to particular sets (e.g., batches or production runs) of goods, then allocated to each item.
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Groups
- Perceiving society as a composite of groups allows for one to generalize about a particular person.
- If you know something about which groups a particular person belongs to, you may import certain character traits to that particular individual.
- In this way, groups operate as a cognitive heuristic, meaning that people use groups as a shortcut to use generalized information to learn about a particular person.
- Legitimate heuristics tend to just be those that import positive generalizations to a particular person.
- Stereotyping is when one makes generalizations about a particular person in a negative way based on their perceived group identity.
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Intensity
- A more generally useful quantity quantifies the rate that energy flows through a surface in a particular direction (imagine that the window now looks into a long pipe so that only lights traveling in a particular direction can pass through,
- On the right intensity is the power delivered to an area from a particular part of the sky (solid angle).
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Culture
- Culture is the set of beliefs, values, symbols, rituals, fashions, etiquette, foods, and art that unite a particular society.
- Culture elements are learned behaviors; children learn them while growing up in a particular culture as older members teach them how to live.
- It is tempting to associate a particular society with a particular country, but this isn't always the case.
- Material culture consists of the goods used to exhibit particular cultural behaviors.
- Symbolic culture consists of the belief systems that found and motivate life in a particular culture.
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Occurrence of a Disease
- An occurrence of disease greater than would be expected at a particular time and place is called an outbreak.
- Outbreak is a term used in epidemiology to describe an occurrence of disease greater than would otherwise be expected at a particular time and place.
- Outbreaks may also refer to endemics that affect a particular place or group, epidemics that affect a region in a country or a group of countries, and pandemics that describe global disease outbreaks .
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Expert vs. Peer Testimony
- A testimony is an assertion made by someone who has knowledge or experience in a particular matter.
- Expert testimony, as the name suggests, is testimony given by a person who is considered an expert by virtue of education, training, certification, skills, and/or experience in a particular matter.
- Though an expert is an authority in a particular subject, his or her testimony can certainly be called into question by other facts, evidence, or experts.
- A person who provides peer testimony might not have expertise in a particular area, but he or she likely has personal experience with the issue at hand.