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- n. A lever, key or device installed in a operant chamber, upon which the "subject" exerts its responses. Sometimes referred to as a manipulandum. In the prototypical operant conditioning experiment, a rat (the subject) presses upon a lever (the operandum) which triggers the delivery of food (the reward or reinforcer).
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“She created a body of work that has lasted, not as fiction, but as a real modus operandum.”
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“I decided that that was not going to be a place that I was going to go to, which is generally my modus operandum (sic) is to bury any kind of feeling I have in my music and I just kept journals and journals and journals and wrote a lot and as I'm getting that through -- a lot of lyrics in there.”
“* Nemo quisquam hominum sive ad cogitandum, sive ad operandum quodcunque bonum potest esse idoneus; nisi qui fuerit munere gratuito divinae opitulationis adjutus; ab ipso namque est initium bonae voluntatis, ab ipso facultas boni operis, ab ipso perseveantia bonae conversationis.”
“Vere iusti in perpetuum uiuunt; cum quibus beatus Queranus corregnat, cuius sepulchri terra uel puluis mare sedauit [cedauit MSS.], corda trepidancium in fide solidauit, et ad bonum operandum irrigauit.”
“Scriptures a matter of form or routine; a thing which _must_ be done, as an _opus operandum_, wherever there is a chance.”
“The Crane Wife 'revealed a band whose modus operandum had to be taken seriously, then their latest epic journey' The Hazards Of Love 'is clearly the sound of a band exercising their craft on another level entirely.”
“Aut operandum aliquo in celebri cum aequalibu 'faao.”
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“Pars Affertionis, prima iaiti conftituta, ftatim pa~ tet quia cum Potentia Vifiua fit Grganica, ideft, per talem paifionem partis iibi correipondentis ia Corppre, determinanda ad operandum, & habeat pro fine proxi - mo apprehenfionem diftin&am Viiibilium; non poteft non illi correfpondere, vt proprium Organum illa Pars, cuius folius in.”
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“Well Iran doesn’t really differ all that much from the modus operandum in many countries in that respect, but it does very much so in others.”
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“Nemo quisquam hominum sive ad cogitandum, sive ad operandum quodcunque bonum potest esse idoneus; nisi qui fuerit munere gratuito divinae opitulationis adjutus; ab ipso namque est initium bonae voluntatis, ab ipso facultas boni operis, ab ipso perseveantia bonae conversationis. ”
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