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- adjective sciences Having a
negative correlation , such that one quantity increases when another decreases
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S1+S2 is in the singlet state, the x-spin values of S1 and S2 are anticorrelated, that is, the conditional probability of measuring the x-spin of S1 to have value +1/2 given that the x-spin of S2 is measured to have value ’ 1/2 is 1, and vice versa.
Measurement in Quantum Theory Krips, Henry 2007
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Consider that we look both ways before crossing the street even though due to lanes of traffic, the events "hit by car from left" and "hit by car from right" are very strongly anticorrelated.
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The blades of two PCs may be anticorrelated with shafts correlated, thus producing a net zero correlation.
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However, the Israeli scientists discovered that it was a terrible approach in basketball, as learning and performance are "anticorrelated."
Wired Top Stories Jonah Lehrer 2011
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These results indicate that the outcomes of consecutive 3pts are anticorrelated.
Wired Top Stories Jonah Lehrer 2011
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On the other hand, Terry Sloan (Lancaster) and A.W. Wolfendale (Durham) show that in some places, the cloud cover is anticorrelated with the cosmic ray flux relatively to what is expected.
The Reference Frame 2010
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We identified the mode that best described the experimentally observed conformational changes of T. thermophilus leucyl-tRNA synthetase upon substrate binding and analyzed the correlated and anticorrelated motions between different domains.
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Fluctuations in this RSN are correlated with those in the task-positive fronto-parietal network and anticorrelated with those in the DM, whose hemodynamic response it anticipates.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Simon Robinson 2009
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Fox MD, Snyder AZ, Vincent JL, Corbetta M, Van Essen DC, et al. (2005) The human brain is intrinsically organized into dynamic, anticorrelated functional networks.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kun Wang et al. 2009
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To illustrate this with an example of economics – in which I am not an expert, but perhaps you are, so correct me if I am wrong: Variations in salaries may be anticorrelated in the short term with share prices, since they dent the companies’ surplus; on the long-term they may be positively correlated, since they increase purchase power.
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