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schema

[ske´mah]

a plan, outline, or arrangement.

sche·ma

, pl.

sche·ma·ta

(skē'mă, skē-mah'tă),

1. A plan, outline, or arrangement. Synonym(s): scheme

2. In sensorimotor theory, the organized unit of cognitive experience.

[G. schēma, shape, form]

schema

(skē′mə)

n. pl. schemata (skē-mä′tə, skĭ-măt′ə) or schemas

Psychology A pattern imposed on complex reality or experience to assist in explaining it, mediate perception, or guide response.

schema

[skē′mə]

an innate knowledge structure that allows a child to organize in his or her mind ways to behave in his or her environment.

sche·ma

, pl. schemata (skē'mă -mă-tă)

1. A plan, outline, or arrangement.
Synonym(s): scheme.

2. In sensorimotor theory, the organized unit of cognitive experience.

[G. schēma, shape, form]

schema

a plan, outline or arrangement.

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Table-2: Mediating role of maladaptive schemas between paternal parenting styles and personality disorders in adults.

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Elena Semino (1995:3) has traced her discussion of schema back to its origin by Bartlett.

Schema Disruption and Identity in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland

As displayed in Table 3, patients scored significantly higher on each early maladaptive schema domain.

Early maladaptive schemas of substance abusers and their intimate partners

Improved comparison results: the new comparison results grid provides for grouping of objects based on type, status, schema etc.

xSQL Schema Compare for SQL Server v4 with Support for SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 Released - Free Lite Edition

In the following we first present the gist of the Entity-Relationship model as our basis for schema design following [18].

Using meta-structures in database design

Schema matching is toe process of identifying semantic mappings, or correspondences, between two more schemas.

An approach for matching schemas of heterogeneous relational databases

One way of incorporating UnitsML into AnIML documents by referencing is to create compound documents that reference the AnIML core schema and UnitsML schema.

Improving interoperability by incorporating UnitsML into markup languages

Most of the students seem to understand the context sufficiently to choose the correct mathematical schema for the problem.

Contextual images in mathematics problem solving

In Chapter 10, van der Vlist tries to explain how the W3C chose to implement namespace support in W3C XML Schema.

XML Schema

Identifying the best metadata models, schemas, and vocabularies to satisfy their requirements;

A survey of metadata research for organizing the web

The analysis of existence-related language with a strong image-schematic component leads us to argue that the OBJECT construct may be safely identified as a basic image- schema, i.

The OBJECT image-schema and other dependent schemas (1)

There are two types of XML schemas: Document Type Definition (DTD) files and XML Schema files.