“The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again” - B.F. Skinner. This theme is proven time and time again as Skinner tested his theories with a wide range of subjects. Famous for his research in operant conditioning‚ Skinner developed a machine designed to show the responses of his tests as a sloped line. Using this device‚ Skinner discovered that behavior was not dependent upon the preceding action but rather was heavily influenced by the response after
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Probability of Things I Do They’re many things in life that involve the uses of probability and it is apparent that it is used in everyone’s life today including myself. While people think math is irrelevant after graduation‚ statistics is heavily used especially in regards to probability. While people do many things‚ some of mine that deal with probability are playing a game of pool‚ as well as the probability of how many games our football team has a chance of winning‚ and another example
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Research Title The Use of a Bow and Arrow to Test the Probability of Bull’s-Eyes Introduction Scientists throughout the years have always had thoughts of the numerous possibilities that would erupt from their experiment. Measurements made during the experiment causes the set of probabilities to immediately and randomly assume one of the possible values. This was stated by the Copenhagen Interpretation whose essential concepts were devised by Niels Bohr‚ Werner Heisenberg and others in the years
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CONDITIONAL SENTENCES (‘if’ sentences) A.G.N.Sudath (JP) Bachelor of Education‚ National Diploma in Teaching English Former National Trainer at the PIC at the Ministry of Education Visiting Lecturer of English – University of Sabaragamuwa Conditional Sentences Structure : A conditional sentence is composed of 2 parts : If-clause + Main Clause Example : If it rains tomorrow‚ we will not come. If-clause Main Clause These sentences are in two halves (clauses): The if part - (if clause)
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as part of its Electronic Commerce framework‚ has in part chosen to extend legal protection to access control mechanisms by a Directive having no connection with copyright law. This Article focuses on the Conditional Access Directive which extends legal protection to access control technology used in conjunction with certain services and argues that its legal recognition of interests in access control technology can affect the applicability of copyright law as a whole‚ or more importantly‚ it can affect
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The Only Language Widely Used Language plays a significant role in defining who we are. It is a method of communication in a structured and conventional way. “Language reinforces feelings of social superiority or inferiority; it creates insiders and outsiders” (p. 242) states Robert MacNeil (2012) in his article “English Belongs to Everybody”. Robert MacNeil‚ a writer of many great historical articles‚ was once‚ a journalist and news anchor. In his article‚ “English Belongs to Everybody”‚ MacNeil
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customers and in which currencies. Using those data I will find out mean‚ standard deviation and some probability for analysis. In addition‚ these is a case involves an offer was given to Corvette by HSBC for estimating whether it is risk or not. Furthermore‚ we also thought about what role banks plays in the case‚ and analyzed the bank itself. Banks expected profit is also mentioned. Finally I used the data about my birthday graphed the two models. Introduction: Reading through the whole report
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DECISION TREES DECISION Decision trees may be described as the graphic display of the decision-making process. Let us take for example a situation where one must decide whether to go to a movie house or to stay at home and watch TV or a video tape. State of nature node Branches Good movie Decision node Movies Bad Movie Good program TV New program or cassette Poor program Rerun
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to use and which is it the form of present unreal conditionals and past unreal conditionals. Resource http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/present_unreal_conditionals.html http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/present_unreal_conditionals.html http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/pastconditional.html#pastunreal http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional2.htm Exercise Present unreal conditionals Use The Present Unreal Conditional is used to talk about what you would generally do in imaginary
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Teaching ideas for first conditional Maja Hadzic‚ Belgrade‚ Serbia 1. I usually give some examples of superstitions‚ e.g. If you break a mirror‚ you will... (they give the answer‚ since they already know Future Simple Tense). 2. Then I give some more oral examples for them to finish. 3. After that they make their own examples. 4. Now they write down an example or two. 5. In groups they try to figure out what goes with the IF clause‚ what with the main clause. They report back to the class
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