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  • ...efit to humankind.<ref>Christoph Riedweg, ''Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching and Influence'', trans. Steven Rendall (Cornell UP, 2005), pp 5&ndash;6, 59, 73 ...ce said that "number is the ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and demons."
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  • ...ublishing over seventy papers mostly related to [[light]], [[heat]], food, and [[cooking]]. During his time in the military, his work with cannons led hi ...ciety]] in England in 1779, being knighted by [[King George III]] in 1781, and being ennobled to Count of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] by the Duke of Bavaria
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  • Scientists and philosophers of science commonly have used the term '''emergence''' to refe {{cite book |title=Self-organization and Emergence in Life Sciences |chapter=Introduction |author=Bernard Feltz, Mar
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  • ...isc]]s (ed), [[wing disc]]s (wd), [[leg disc]]s (ld), [[mouth hook]]s (mh) and [[gonads]] (gd). Magnification: Schematic view of brain hemispheres (b), ey ...of the different cellular [[allometry|scaling]] rules that apply to rodent and primate brains, primates always concentrate larger numbers of neurons in th
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  • ...ten form [[multicellular]] [[colony|communities]] in which different roles and even distinct structures are assumed by different cells. In this figure sho ...sional cells with a distinct appearance. These are known as 'heterocysts', and they are biochemically specialized to fix [[atmosphere|atmospheric]] [[nitr
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  • ...hout the body including the [[skin]], blood vessels, [[heart]], [[lung]]s, and [[muscle]]s. About 60% of RA patients are unable to work 10 years after the ...ans "resembling", i.e. resembling rheumatic fever. ''Arthr'' means "joint" and the suffix -''itis'', a "condition involving inflammation". Thus rheumatoid
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  • ...s about science. In this sense the philosophy of science must be empirical and not merely tautological. ...s of [[science]], including the [[formal science]]s, [[natural science]]s, and [[social sciences]]. It includes study of:
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  • ...ctors because it has visible and showy white and dark blue-purple flowers; and ''H. valenzuelana'' is sometimes collected due to the uniqueness of their f ...ica]] to [[Ecuador]] and [[Venezuela]], [[Caribbean]] and southeast, south and central regions of Brazil.
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  • ...f name="pmid16391221">{{cite journal| author=Garfield E| title=The history and meaning of the journal impact factor. | journal=JAMA | year= 2006 | volume= ...in ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]''. Some related values, also calculated and published by the same organization, are:
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  • ...nown to contain the [[stimulant]] [[caffeine]] as well as [[antioxidants]] and other plant chemicals ([[phytochemical]]s). Coffee is typically [[brewing| ...[Mexico]], [[Puerto Rico]], and [[Vietnam]] are the top ''Coffea'' growing and exporting [[country|countries]].
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  • ...s which maintain most of the [[steady state]]s in the body are so complex, and are so peculiar to the living organism, that it has been suggested (Cannon, ...subsystems, inducing states of activity outside of their relatively stable and optimal ranges &mdash; the "steady states" he referred to in his definition
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  • :<i>See also</i>: [[Electricity]] and [[Maxwell's equations]] ...photon]]s, uncharged, energetic particles exchanged by interacting charges and currents.<ref name=photon/>
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  • ...ems the word applies to; it includes transgenerational molecular evolution and [[Biolinguistics|language evolution]], for example. ...ations. Thus evolution in a broad sense is ''descent with modification'', and often ''with diversification''."</font><ref name=futuymaevobiol98>Futuyma D
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  • ...uencies include a ''fundamental frequency'' (the lowest frequency present) and multiples of this basic underlying frequency called ''overtones'', ''harmon ...spects of a sound also affect its pitch, namely, its loudness (amplitude), and its temporal evolution ([[Envelope function#Example: Sound envelope|sound e
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  • ...e'' particular combinations of symptoms in healthy people can also, in low and specially prepared doses, help to ''cure'' people whose disease has similar ...elatively small number of licensed homeopaths, and by some medical doctors and other licensed health practitioners as an alternative or a complement to co
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  • ....), and makes specific predictions about the outcome of future experiments and observations. Sometimes a critical experiment would never have been done wi ...1iUC The Theoretical Biologist's Toolbox: Quantitative Methods for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.] Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521830451, ISBN 97
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  • ...relies on interpersonal [[communication]] between a [[therapy|therapist]] and a client. Most forms of psychotherapy use only [[spoken language|conversat ...ied]], and [[licensure|licensed]], with a range of different certification and licensing requirements in force internationally. Psychotherapists may be p
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  • ...about half the general population in developed countries use complementary and alternative medicine",<ref>{{citation | title = Obstacles to research in complementary and alternative medicine.
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  • ...when he retired as professor of the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and as associate director of the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]]. ...rity clearance hearings of [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], his former colleague and director of the [[Los Alamos Laboratory]].
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  • ...iers focus both on weaknesses of their investigatory and analytic methods, and criticisms of the specific claims regarding the Holocaust. ...ay that these claims are be based upon flawed research, biased statements, and deliberately falsified evidence.<ref>Evans, Lying about Hitler</ref> The [[
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