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   decoupling
   A regulatory design that breaks the link between utility revenues and energy sales to encourage utility investment in conservation. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
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   decoupling
   (from the article `Cosmos`) Decoupling between ordinary matter and radiation occurs when the temperature drops low enough for free (hydrogen) ions and electrons to recombine. ...
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   Decoupling
   Term where the relationship trends in asset class returns may deviate in certain economic and financial environments. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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   Decoupling
   The abstract concept of coupling between two phenomena applies to so many different contexts that the cessation of coupling, or the absence of coupling between two phenomena where it would usually be expected, produces many circumstances where decoupling is a phenomenon of interest in itself. {Expa...
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   decoupling
   elimination of undesirable couplings between single system variables (variable quantities) by suitable means
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   Decoupling
   [cosmology] In physical cosmology, decoupling is a transition from close interaction between a particle type and other matter to their substantial independence of each other. The most often discussed such decoupling is at the moment during recombination when the rate of Compton scattering be...
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   Decoupling
   [electronics] In electronics, decoupling is the prevention of undesired coupling between subsystems via the power supply connections. It is commonly accomplished by connecting localized capacitors close to the power leads of integrated circuits to act as a small localized energy reservoir; t...
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   Decoupling
   [probability] In probability and statistics, decoupling is a reduction of a sample statistic to an average of the statistic evaluated on several independent sequences of the random variable. This sum, conditioned on all but one of the independent sequences becomes a sum of independent random...
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   Decoupling
   [utility regulation] In public utility regulation, decoupling refers to the disassociation of a utility`s profits from its sales of the energy commodity. Instead, a rate of return is aligned with meeting revenue targets, and rates are trued up or down to meet the target at the end of the adj...
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    Decoupling
    [advertising] Decoupling in advertising is the practice of advertisers buy services direct from suppliers which were previously sub-contractors to their advertising agencies. Decoupling is part of the unbundling of the services previously provided by traditional full service advertising agen...
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    Decoupling
    [organizational studies] In organizational studies, and particularly new institutional theory, decoupling is the creation and maintenance of gaps between formal policies and actual organizational practices. Organizational researchers have documented decoupling in a variety of organizations, ...
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    Decoupling
    [meteorology] In weather forecasting, decoupling is boundary-layer decoupling of atmospheric layers over land at night. During the day when the sun shines and warms the land, air at the surface of the earth is heated and rises. This rising air mixes the atmosphere near the earth. At night th...
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