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  • Just because NH displays summativity does not mean everything that displays summativity is a nested hierarchy.

    A New Book 2010

  • Just because NH displays summativity does not mean everything that displays summativity is a nested hierarchy.

    A New Book 2010

  • Professor Allen doesn't mention "summativity" on his website.

    A New Book 2010

  • (Professor Allen doesn't mention "summativity" on his website.

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  • In the first two examples, and to a lesser extent in large animal zygotes that undergo post-zygotic development without external sources of nutrition (e.g. Xenopus), the resulting hierarchies are fully nested and display the property of summativity.

    A New Book 2010

  • Hierarchies that employ organizational criteria other than containment may be referred to as non-nested, and these do not display summativity (Allen & Hoekstra, 1984).

    A New Book 2010

  • That formed a nested hierarchy, since summativity was satisfied.

    A New Book 2010

  • Note summativity, or containment, at all levels — the requirement that makes a hierarchy "nested".

    A New Book 2010

  • In the first two examples, and to a lesser extent in large animal zygotes that undergo post-zygotic development without external sources of nutrition (e.g. Xenopus), the resulting hierarchies are fully nested and display the property of summativity.

    A New Book 2010

  • Hierarchies that employ organizational criteria other than containment may be referred to as non-nested, and these do not display summativity (Allen & Hoekstra, 1984).

    A New Book 2010

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