Word: normalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...From my admittedly limited discussion with colleagues, I do not see any diminution in enthusiasm for the Core, and I think the somewhat smaller number of courses this year is part of the normal variation," Pilbeam writes in an e-mail...
...dinnertime, however, students said the water seemed to be back to normal...
Becker implicated the media in prizing thinness and creating what she termed the "normalization of an extreme." This has distorted "what is normal and what is attainable," she said...
...brain's higher centers explode with new synapses. And as dendrites and axons swell with buds and branches like trees in spring, metabolism soars. By the age of two, a child's brain contains twice as many synapses and consumes twice as much energy as the brain of a normal adult...
...delivered in a foreign language. Moreover, Fernald says, Parentese appears to hasten the process of connecting words to the objects they denote. Twelve-month-olds, directed to "look at the ball" in Parentese, direct their eyes to the correct picture more frequently than when the instruction is delivered in normal English...