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Change of venue means moving a trial to a new location where there has been less pre-trial publicity
Change resister is a person who hates change and will do anything to keep change from occurring.
Changing-criterion design refers to a small-n design in which the criterion to obtain some outcome changes systematically over time. It is a type of single-subject design in which the effect of the treatment is demonstrated by how closely the behavior matches a criterion that is systematically altered.
Channel of communication refers to the way the message is delivered-whether face to face, in writing, on film, or in some other way.
Chaos refers to formless matter and infinite space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe", and "extreme confusion or disorder." In terms of systems, chaos is a state space (the condition of any system at a given time) where a system exhibits disorder, confusion, uncertainty, or instability.
- Chaos theory : Chaos theory refers to the qualitative study of unstable aperiodic behavior in deterministic nonlinear dynamical systems.
Chaos Theory refers to the qualitative study of unstable aperiodic behavior in deterministic non-linear dynamical systems. Aperiodic behavior is observed when there is no variable, describing the state of the system, that undergoes a regular repetition of values. Unstable aperiodic behavior is highly complex : it never repeats and it continues to manifest the effects of any small perturbation.