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- noun A group of related components that are part of a larger
system .
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Examples
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Rather future “generative” characteristics will tend to be found only at the hardware or software component or sub-system level.
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It's not necessary for Applegate or anyone else to address every sub-system to refute Behe.
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There are reliable engines/rockets sytems, and the are the same reliable engines/rockets with access gantry/LAS activation sub-system.
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It's not necessary for Applegate or anyone else to address every sub-system to refute Behe.
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Allow adequate time for issues raised in Element or sub-system reviews to be addressed and brought forward.
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Allow adequate time for issues raised in Element or sub-system reviews to be addressed and brought forward.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt, its also SOP at ESMD - NASA Watch 2008
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Likewise I spent 10 years as a NASA sub-system and element manager on both Space Station Freedom and ISS.
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In a closed system where all the objective functions and variables must be compatible to achieve stability and viability, adjustments in the value of some variables through romantic idealization may be dysfunctional if they represent merely residual responses to the creative combination of the variables in the open sub-system.
The Macroeconomics of Love: A Valentine’s Day Analysis - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Examining the interlinkages among multiple environmental challenges is similar to applying a systems approach by looking at the interlinkages within and between the wider global system or a sub-system.
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How does this sub-system of action fit into the larger swirl of psychological causes within the actor's mental system?
Agency and deliberation Daniel Little 2008
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