Cultural competency
* derives from both moral disposition and specific learned interpersonal skills.
* emphasizes the idea of effectively operating in different cultural contexts.
* exists on a continuum from being culturally destructive to culturally competent.
* is about developing skills
  - based on best business practices, healthy competition and positive outcomes
* means considering many options and being more careful about making judgments.

Cultural meaning
* are common, shared, worked out together.
* is determined by a system of constitutive rules.

Cerebral ischemia
* can result in a stroke.
* produces perturbation of signal transduction systems in neurons.

Copulation
* always leads to the fertilization of the ova within the body of the mother
  - occurs in the water
* are relatively rare events and can often happen in inconspicuous places.
* begins before nest building and continues into the incubation stage
  - when one of the palps is inserted into the female's genital opening
* can take from several minutes to several hours depending on species.
* common activity among all dolphin ages and even same-sexes.
* continues with decreasing frequency throughout incubation and chick rearing.
* deposits several hundred million sperm in the vagina.
* exposes female red-winged blackbirds to bacteria in male semen.
* generally take place at night, though they have been observed in the day.
* is injurious for the female beetle
  - just the proper grammatical term for sex
  - likely to accelerate maturity of the female
  - natural in all combinations of sexes
  - preceded by courtship behavior that includes intricate color changes
  - their obsession, the focus of their existence
* is, in contrast to the spiders directly, directly with a penis.
* means the animal has entered the reproductive phase that soon leads to senescence.
* occurs at night.
* occurs during a short season in winter
  - the nest building phase
* occurs in a molting pocket on the surface of the skin
  - autumn, in migration or on the wintering grounds
  - or outside of water
  - shallow waters near nesting beaches
  - mainly on land at the breeding colony
  - offshore during fall and winter, each female mating with several males
  - on the nest platform during the nest-building stage
  - the same way in most of the live-bearing species
* occurs when the clasper is inserted and transfers the sperm
  - there is cloaca to cloaca contact
* occurs with both male and female rising from the substrate towards the surface
  - the two dolphins belly to belly
  - within the small intestine and the female worms pass eggs in the feces
* often follows the acceptance of food by the female.
* permits the contact of eggs and sperm cells to form zygotes.
* starts early in the mating season and usually stops when nesting begins.
* takes place in the water
* usually takes place in the water.

Correlational research
* allows investigators to explore the relationships between variables.
* involves one or more correlation coefficients.

Circumscription
* common methodology for capturing non-monotonic inferences.
* form of non-monotonic reasoning based on minimizing predicates and formulas.
* formalizes several processes of human informal reasoning.
* is restrictions.
* tool to jump to certain conclusions.

Chorionic villi
* are a part of the placenta but contain fetal tissue
  - fetal derived cells with a full set of fetal chromosomes
  - the part of the placenta that extend into the uterine lining
  - tiny parts of the placenta
* develop as invaginations of the cytotrophoblast.