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FUNCTION NORM [4 records]

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Record 1 2024-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
CONT

Social function refers to any social arrangement(institution, norm, practice, etc.) that contributes to the maintenance of society.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización social
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Record 2 2003-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

Lineal inheritance... In Eurasia lineal inheritance is the norm and the function of this rule is often the preservation of the status of offspring in a society with differentiated strata based on property-holding(or other relatively exclusive rights).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit successoral (common law)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
Key term(s)
  • héritage en ligne directe
  • transmission héréditaire en ligne directe

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nonverbal Communication (Psychology)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

The Test of Nonverbal Intelligence is a highly standardized, psychometrically sound, norm referenced intelligence test with an administration and response format that eliminates language and reduces motoric and cultural factors. The TONI-2 is a language-free, motor-reduced and culture reduced measure of intellectual function in subjects 5-0 through 85-11 years. There are two equivalent forms of the test, each containing 55 items each arranged in order of difficulty. All of the items require abstract/figural problem solving.

Key term(s)
  • non-verbal intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Communication non verbale (Psychologie)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique

Spanish

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Record 4 1994-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A function of a vector and of time which is positive-definite and has a negative-definite derivative with respect to time for nonzero vectors, is identically zero for the zero vector, and approaches infinity as the norm of the vector approaches infinity; used in determining the stability of control systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Fonction vecteur-temps décrivant un flot quelquefois non autonome dans l'espace des phases d'un système dynamique.

OBS

La fonction de Liapounov permet souvent de cerner la stabilité ou l'attractivité d'un ensemble invariant.

Spanish

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