Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Copolymers
Mixtures of more than one polymer.
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Coping strategies
The ways people devise to help prevent, avoid, or control emotional distress.
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Coping skills
Techniques one uses for coping: coping mechanisms. Any characteristic or behavioral pattern that enhances a person’s adaptation. Coping skills include a stable value or religious belief system, problem solving, social skills, health-energy, and commitment to a social network.
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Coordinate repression
In genetics, control of structural genes in an operon by a single operator gene. Simultaneous reduction of the enzyme levels of a metabolic pathway.
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Cooperative play
Play that is organized for some specific purpose and that requires a division of labor. Players are easily distinguished from nonplayers in.
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Cooperative learning
Learning characterized by learners teaching each other or sharing each other’s knowledge. An educational strategy in which learners join in small, structured groups to complete educational tasks, solve problems together, and further each other’s understanding of material.
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Cooperative education
A method employed in which learners teach each other or share knowledge of experiences.
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Cooperation
A social process whereby each person or groups work together to achieve mutually agreed upon goals. The act of working together for a common goal or purpose.
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Cooling-off period
In labor relations, a provision of law that postpones a strike or lockout action to give mediation agencies an opportunity to settle a dispute.
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Coolidge effect
The availability of a new sexual partner that stimulates the male’s desire to have intercourse with the new partner.
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