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Phylogeny
Phylogeny Phylogeny is the inferred evolutionary history of a group of organisms (including microorganisms ). Paleontologists are interested in understanding life through time, not just at one time in the past or present, but over long periods of past time. Before they can attempt to reconstruct... Read more |
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Paleoclimatology
palaeoclimatology Palaeoclimatology is the study of past climate and its variation in space and time during the period before instrumental measurements began to be made. A key aim of palaeoclimatology over and above the simple documentation of past climates is to elucidate the mechanisms that gave... Read more |
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Glycosylated Hemoglobin
Glycosylated Hemoglobin Test Definition Glycosylated hemoglobin is a test that indicates how much sugar has been in a person's blood during the past two to four months. It is used to monitor the effectiveness of diabetes treatment. Purpose Diabetes is a disease in which a person cannot... Read more |
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coral terraces
coral terraces A coral terrace is a special type of marine terrace, comprising a staircase-like set of subhorizontal terrace surfaces, each separated by a former sea cliff. The base of each sea cliff, defined by the inner landward edge of the terrace surface, is a good marker of past sea level, to... Read more |
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Mycenae
Mycenae , ancient city of Greece, in Argolis. In historical times it had little importance and was usually dependent on Argos. Its significance is in its remote past as a center of Mycenaean civilization . The famous Lion Gate, which led into the city, and the Treasury of Atreus, the largest of the... Read more |
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oblate
oblate a person dedicated to a religious life, but typically having not taken full monastic vows. In earlier times, oblate was also used for a child dedicated by their parents to a religious house and placed there to be brought up.Recorded from the late 17th century, the word comes via French from... Read more |
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cautery
cautery searing or destruction of living animal tissue by use of heat or caustic chemicals. In the past, cauterization of open wounds, even those following amputation of a limb, was performed with hot irons; this served to close off the bleeding vessels as well as to discourage infection. In modern... Read more |
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repousse
repoussé , the process or the product of ornamenting metallic surfaces with designs in relief hammered out from the back by hand. Gold and silver are most commonly used today for fine work, but copper and tin are suitable for the purpose, and bronze was extensively used in past times. The... Read more |
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Appellate Jurisdiction
...small fraction of the Court's time and resources, it is still...constitutional system. Until recent times, appeals to the Court were of two types...wasted the Court's valuable time. These were often disposed of...become less frequent than in the past. They ... |
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Army Combat Branches: Infantry
...infantry's primary tactical and administrative unit.Over time, the regimental structure underwent several changes. Until...will remain as important to future success as it has been in the past.[See also Army, U.S.; Land Warfare; Side Arms, Standard... |
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Ashbery, John (Lawrence)
...Opposed to conventional logic, realism, and the idea of a usable past, the poetry cannot be explicated in a traditional way. Ashbery...light‐hearted presentation of classical mythology in modern times, and The Philosopher (1962), a travesty of conventional... |
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Austin v. United States
...crime, notably in cases in which small‐time drug users and sellers lost houses and other...property regardless of an individual's past criminal record or the scope of the crime...In the same term, the justices, this time in a six‐member plurality opinion... |
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Bede, St
...particularly interested in miracles and in the calculation of dates and time. Some of his scientific scholarship was advanced and his historical...and destiny. To Bede's imposition of order on a more complex past, his so-called list of bretwaldas can be related. He may... |
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Brennan, William Joseph, Jr.
...played a singular role in the constitutional revolution of the past two generations. The architect of many of the Warren Court...decision as the most important of his tenure. And in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), Brennan led the Court in extending the...claims of individual rights ... |
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Brooks, Van Wyck
...1944), concerning 1800 to the 1840s outside New England; The Times of Melville and Whitman (1947); and The Confident Years...Jeffersonian liberalism, and an appreciation of the American past. His views of literature and antipathy to many 20th‐century... |
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Carlyle, Thomas
...Craigenputtock. ‘Signs of the Times’, an attack on Utilitarianism...reputation, and he from this time onward strengthened the position...In Chartism (1839) and Past and Present (1843) Carlyle...Disraeli, B.). His evocation in Past and Present of medieval ... |
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catastrophic geomorphology
...level. Earthquakes along the outer coast of Washington State appear to have created tsunamis that, at least six times in the past 7000 years, buried well-vegetated lowlands under sheets of sand.Several cases of catastrophic flooding after... |
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Church of England
...standing and statutes. Only those which since Anglo-Saxon times had been monastic were perforce given revised constitutions...made virtually no theological or liturgical break with the past, there was under Edward VI a considerable influx of continental...were ejected—and thus became ... |
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ancient
...an·cient1 / ˈānchənt/ • adj. belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence: the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. ∎ having been in existence for a very long time: ancient forests. ∎ chiefly humorous showing or feeling...tweed jacket. PHRASES: the ancients the people ... |
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approach
...come near or nearer to (a future time or event): he was approaching retirement. ∎ [intr.] (of a future time) come nearer: the time is approaching when you will be...approximation to something: the past is impossible to recall with any... |
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begin
be·gin / biˈgin/ • v. (-gin·ning ; past -gan / -ˈgan/ ; past part. -gun / -ˈgən/ ) 1. [tr.] start...into being or have its starting point at a certain time or place: the ground campaign had begun. ∎ [intr... |
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Buddhas of the three times
Buddhas of the three times. The buddhas of the three periods, past (Kaśyapa, but often in iconography Dīpaṃkara), present (Śākyamuni, i.e. Gotama), and future (Maitreya). |
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bygone
by·gone / ˈbīˌgôn/ • adj. belonging to an earlier time: relics of a bygone society. • n. (usu. bygones) a thing dating from an earlier time. PHRASES: let bygones be bygones forget past offenses or causes of conflict and be reconciled. |
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cast
cast1 / kast/ • v. [tr.] (past cast / kast/ ) 1. throw (something...think back to a particular event or time: he cast his mind back to the...or other production. • v. (past and past part. cast ) [tr.] assign a part... |
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Church of England
...VIII made virtually no theological or liturgical break with the past, there was under Edward VI a considerable influx of continental...incumbents were ejected—and thus became nonconformists. From that time the church ceased to be the church of the whole nation.After... |
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consensus
...values and norms which have been developed and institutionalized over time by its members. Thus, in Parsons's own writings, ‘integration...on many issues, the two groups of protagonists were simply talking past each other. |
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dig
dig / dig/ • v. (dig·ging ; past dug / dəg/ ) 1. [intr.] break up and move earth with a tool...bring out something that is hidden or has been stored for a long time: they dug out last year's notes. ∎ (dig into) inf. find... |
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grave
...DERIVATIVES: grave·ly adv. grave·ness n. grave3 • v. (past part. grav·en / ˈgrāvən/ or graved) [tr.] archaic engrave...poetic/lit. fix (something) indelibly in the mind: the times are graven on my memory. grave4 • v. [tr.] hist. clean... |
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behind
...running late, behind schedule, behindhand, not on time, behind time. 4. he was behind with his subscription synonyms: in...loss to the Orioles behind themsynonyms: consign to the past, put down to experience, regard as water under the... |
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bygone
bygone • adjective synonym: past, departed, dead, former, one-time, previous, forgotten, lost, of old, olden, ancient, antiquated, of yore, obsolete, extinct, out of date, outmoded, passé |
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history
...history • noun 1. my interest in history synonyms: the past, former times, historical events, the olden days, the old days...gave details of her history synonyms: background, past, life story, biography, experiences, backstory... |
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late
...he arrived latesynonyms: unpunctually, behind time, behindhand, belatedly, tardily, at the last...slowly. 2. we worked late yesterdaysynonyms: past the usual finishing/stopping/closing time, after hours. 3. get home late from the dancesynonyms... |
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lately
lately • adverb synonyms: of late, recently, in the past few days, in the last couple of weeks, in recent times. |
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lost
...extinct, dead, bygone, lost and gone, lost in time, past, vanished, forgotten, unremembered, unrecalled...irredeemable, irreclaimable, irretrievable, past hope, hopeless, past praying for. 7. lost to all shamesynonyms: impervious... |
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modern
modern • adjective 1. modern times synonyms: present-day, contemporary, present, current, twenty-first-century, latter-day, modern-day, recent.antonym: past. 2. her clothes are very modern synonyms: fashionable, in fashion... |
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Native American
...made literal sense (for the most part) in 1737, since at that time most people who had been born in the New World were indigenous...schools and colleges have dropped their Indian symbols over the past 30 years as many indigenous American groups and their members... |
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old
...superannuated; informal getting on, past it, over the hill, no spring...old days synonyms: bygone, past, former, olden, of old, previous...former, previous, ex-, one-time, erstwhile, once, then; formal...means dating back to the remote past, often ... |
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old-time
old-time • adjective we danced to Grandfather's old-time music | it's an old-time traditionsynonyms: old-style, former, past, bygone, old-fashioned, historic; traditional, folk, ancestral, classical, old-world, quaint.antonym: modern. |
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Joint Symposia
...economically important plant genomes. In addition, the "real-time" nature of the PacBio sequencing technology enables direct detection...development of safe and efficacious botanical therapeutics. The past, present, and future of botanical therapeutic research will... |
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Announcing the Joint AIAA-IGTI Engine Design Competition for Undergraduate Teams
...participation has dwindled to three or four teams during the past several years and discussions within the AIAA propulsion community...engine designs are what most of us in the business do most of the time and such an approach offers virtually limitless opportunity for... |
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Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Experience of History
...of how we can experience the past when its examples no longer seem...claims that the continuity between past and present assumed by histories...lost intuitive acceptance by the time we get the first sustained reflections...question of how we experience the ... |
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How a visual surveillance system hypothesizes how you behave
...these points must be carried out in real time, to meet the requirements of a watchful...aspects have been well considered in the past, the one that has certainly prompted the...which the same object is tracked through time, discriminating it from other, similar... |
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Determining the dimensionality in spatial representations of semantic concepts
...derived from similarity measures. Over the past 35 years, spatial representations have...confusion data, sorting data, or response times) as input data. A scaling algorithm then...Rosseel, & De Boeck, 2002), response times (Rips, Shoben, & Smith, 1973; Shoben... |
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A group-administered lag task as a measure of working memory
...point of memory research over the past 20 years. WM has been defined...more cost-efficient and less time-consuming method of evaluation...sentences) may have additional time to spend rehearsing the TBR items...advantage in terms of rehearsal time. ... |
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Web-based experiment control software for research and teaching on human...
...techniques. This is a costly process that takes a very long time and a great effort. However, it could be easily simplified...of the programs that our research group has developed over the past 1 0 or 1 5 years. Demonstrations of these programs can be freely... |
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Identifying decision strategies: A process-and outcome-based classification...
...during the experiment, there is always only one box opened at a time. After the final response has been given, the researcher can...variety of process-tracing techniques is large. During the past decades, the following techniques have been developed and continuously... |
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Exemplar by feature applicability matrices and other Dutch normative data for...
...psychonomic.org/archive. During the past three decades, semantic concepts have...Storms, & Verguts, 2007), response times in speeded categorization (Larochelle...De Boeck, & Ruts, 2000), response times in feature verification (Rips, Shoben... |
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Timing accuracy of Web experiments: A case study using the WebExp software...
...rather than response times. In the present article...measurements for known time intervals (generated...INTRODUCTION Over the past 10 years, it has become...hypotheses. To realize such time-critical experiments...precisely, and response ... |
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