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  2. Interspecific competition - Wikipedia

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    Subadult male lion and female spotted hyena in the Masai Mara.The two species share the same ecological niche, and are thus in competition with each other. Interspecific competition, in ecology, is a form of competition in which individuals of different species compete for the same resources in an ecosystem (e.g. food or living space).

  3. Specificity (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Turkish provides an example of this, as indefinites in the object position are always explicitly specific or non-specific. A noun phrase with the accusative case morpheme -(y)i is necessarily interpreted as specific, as shown in this example: Ali bir piyano-yu kiralamak istiyor. Ali one piano-Acc to-rent wants "Ali wants to rent a certain piano."

  4. Sensitivity and specificity - Wikipedia

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    The 'worst-case' sensitivity or specificity must be calculated in order to avoid reliance on experiments with few results. For example, a particular test may easily show 100% sensitivity if tested against the gold standard four times, but a single additional test against the gold standard that gave a poor result would imply a sensitivity of ...

  5. Sociolect - Wikipedia

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    An example of a sociolect difference, based on social grouping, is the zero copula in African American Vernacular English. It occurs in a specific ethnic group but in all areas of the United States. [11]: 48 William Labov gives an example: "he here" instead of "he's here." [11]: 38

  6. Specific name (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the scientific name for humans is Homo sapiens, which is the species name, consisting of two names: Homo is the "generic name" (the name of the genus) and sapiens is the "specific name". Historically, specific name referred to the combination of what are now called the generic and specific names.

  7. Domain specificity - Wikipedia

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    Prominent examples of such domain-general views include Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, and the views of many modern connectionists. Proponents of domain specificity argue that domain-general learning mechanisms are unable to overcome the epistemological problems facing learners in many domains, especially language. In addition ...

  8. Semantic memory - Wikipedia

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    There are numerous sub-theories related to semantic memory that have developed since Tulving initially posited his argument on the differences between semantic and episodic memory; an example is the belief in hierarchies of semantic memory, in which different information one has learned with specific levels of related knowledge is associated.

  9. Special case - Wikipedia

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    Special case examples include the following: All squares are rectangles (but not all rectangles are squares); therefore the square is a special case of the rectangle.