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We often describe our models using appropriate process calculi or suitable automata; similarly properties are often described in logics such as Alternation-free Least Fixed Point Logic, Computation Tree Logic,
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We often describe our models using appropriate process calculi or suitable automata; similarly properties are often described in logics such as Alternation-free Least Fixed Point Logic, Computation Tree Logic,
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Alternation in the presidency of the Republic is required.
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Alternation of wet and dry seasons results in the growth of a distinctive vegetation known generally as tropical savanna.
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Alternation used to be demonstrated separately of numbers, lines, solids, and durations, though it could have been proved of them all by a single demonstration.
Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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Alpine zone: = arctic zone, q.v. Alternation of generations: where a species that occurs in both sexes periodically produces only parthenogenetic females; the latter, in turn, producing the sexed form; occurs in Cynipidae and some
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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It is composed of a Repeated Alternation of six members; three concerning
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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Alternation of GenerationsThis term is applied to a peculiar mode of reproduction which prevails among many of the lower animals, in which the egg produces a living form quite different from its parent, but from which the parent-form is reproduced by a process of budding, or by the division of the substance of the first product of the egg.
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909
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Alternation of color occurs not only where it is needed to distinguish bars, but also where we have only lines of dots, which are of course self-separating.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901
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Spirit, and in the Continual Alternation (Pulsation) between the two positions of "I am the Person that Thou art," and "Thou art the Person that I am."
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