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  2. Tinbergen's four questions - Wikipedia

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    Some prominent classes of Proximate causal mechanisms include: The brain : For example, Broca's area , a small section of the human brain , has a critical role in linguistic capability . Hormones : Chemicals used to communicate among cells of an individual organism.

  3. Zone of proximal development - Wikipedia

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    Students are assessed and given a reading level and a range. Books rated below their level are easy to read, while books above their level challenge the student. Sometimes students are not even allowed to check out books from the school library that are outside their range.

  4. Proximity analysis - Wikipedia

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    Proximity analysis is a class of spatial analysis tools and algorithms that employ geographic distance as a central principle. [1] Distance is fundamental to geographic inquiry and spatial analysis, due to principles such as the friction of distance, Tobler's first law of geography, and Spatial autocorrelation, which are incorporated into analytical tools. [2]

  5. Wikibooks - Wikipedia

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    Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.

  6. Proximate and ultimate causation - Wikipedia

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    A proximate cause is an event which is closest to, or immediately responsible for causing, some observed result. This exists in contrast to a higher-level ultimate cause (or distal cause) which is usually thought of as the "real" reason something occurred. The concept is used in many fields of research and analysis, including data science and ...

  7. Proximate - Wikipedia

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    Proximates are used in the analysis of biological materials as a decomposition of a human-consumable good into its major constituents. They are a good approximation of the contents of packaged comestible goods and serve as a cost-effective and easy verification of nutritional panels. This means that testing can be used to verify lots, but ...

  8. Obviative - Wikipedia

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    Thus, one of them has to be proximate and the other one has to be obviative, depending on which one the speaker considers more central to the story. If the fox is the more important one, the sentence might look something like "the quick brown fox- PROX jumps- PROX>OBV the lazy dog- OBV ", where PROX>OBV is verbal inflection indicating a ...

  9. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    Some Algonquian languages and Salishan languages divide the category of third person into two parts: proximate for a more topical third person, and obviative for a less topical third person. [5] The obviative is sometimes called the fourth person. In this manner, Hindi and Bangla may also categorize pronouns in the fourth, and with the latter a ...