structural alignment

collocation in English

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structural
adjective
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/ˈstrʌk.tʃər.əl/us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the way in which parts of a system or object ...
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alignment
noun
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/əˈlaɪn.mənt/us
/əˈlaɪn.mənt/
an arrangement in which two or more things are positioned in a straight line or parallel to ...
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Thestructuralalignmentprocess suggests that inferences are made on the basis of systematicity.
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Structuralalignmentrequires that the relations and objects that are matched be seen as identical (or can be decomposed into structures that are partially identical).
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Thestructuralalignmentprocess takes pairs of relational representations and places them in correspondence.
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It would be interesting to carry out studies to explore whether systematicity and other benchmark phenomena ofstructuralalignmentaffect other levels of linguistic processing.
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Language promotesstructuralalignmentin the acquisition of a theory of mind.
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Similarity is like analogy :structuralalignmentin comparison.
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It is not clear that thestructuralalignmentprocess should be involved at other linguistic levels.
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Gorodkin et al. (1987a, b) have developed astructuralalignmentalgorithm that does exactly this.
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By closerstructuralalignmentwith income support, it tackles the unemployment trap and provides better incentives to take work.
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Structuralalignmentcan therefore be used to imply evolutionary relationships between proteins that share very little common sequence.
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It is possible to perform astructuralalignmenton structures produced by structure prediction methods.
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It is however very complex, having no definedstructuralalignmentowing to the heavy fluvial erosion that has fragmented the terrain.
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Usually this common ancestry is based onstructuralalignmentand mechanistic similarity even though no sequence similarity is evident.
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Indeed, evaluating such predictions often requires astructuralalignmentbetween the model and the true known structure to assess the model's quality.
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A more complete list of currently available and freely distributedstructuralalignmentsoftware can be found instructuralalignmentsoftware.
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Structuralalignmentis a valuable tool for the comparison of proteins with low sequence similarity, where evolutionary relationships between proteins can not be easily detected by standard sequence alignment techniques.
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The data set consists of structural alignments, which can be considered a standard against which purely sequence-based methods are compared.
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