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  • This regular dilatation and rigidity of the elastic artery answering to the beats of the heart, is known as the pulse.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • The consensus in the room was no, not yet, not while he still had a "pulse."

    The Great Debates 2008

  • And the hardening is a function of whether you designed it to not be susceptible to this kind of pulse.

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2003 2003

  • Thus also green pease, haslers, broom-buds, or any kind of pulse.

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

  • At last it was a surge, so intense that Skag could feel his own blood-pulse -- a different kind of pulse.

    Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905

  • Thanks. vendari01 wrote: Shelly, capacitors build up a charge over time, and then release it all at once, in a kind of pulse.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • I have no idea how that stuff works - I'm glad you do! vendari01 wrote: Shelly, capacitors build up a charge over time, and then release it all at once, in a kind of pulse.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • As you pointed out, they are on the very bottom level of Bloom's Taxonomy in terms of higher level thinking. vendari01 wrote: Shelly, capacitors build up a charge over time, and then release it all at once, in a kind of pulse.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • As you pointed out, they are on the very bottom level of Bloom's Taxonomy in terms of higher level thinking. vendari01 wrote: Shelly, capacitors build up a charge over time, and then release it all at once, in a kind of pulse.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • What he found was that 95% of the test questions presented to students in 1956 required them to think at the lowest level, which is knowledge. vendari01 wrote: Shelly, capacitors build up a charge over time, and then release it all at once, in a kind of pulse.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

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