| The apparent meanders are evidently an artifact arising from close juxtaposition of the oval units. |
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| In addition, some slight judder remains, an artifact of the transfer process. |
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| Indiana Jones sets off to prevent a powerful Chinese artifact from falling into the wrong hands. |
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| A designated spot on an artifact is subjected to high energy produced by an X-ray tube. |
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| My companions and I are on a quest to retrieve the artifact and bring it back to the realm, at all costs. |
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| Is it enough to consider the artifact as evidence of the problem solved, as an expression of the idea revealed? |
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| The numbering of years is a cultural artifact based on some rather arbitrary decisions made along the way. |
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| Therefore, it is unlikely that the results presented are an artifact of presenting the stimuli fish in bottles. |
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| We performed two experiments in order to eliminate the possibility that the recombination we observed was an artifact of the PCR reaction. |
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| This is a flash artifact and is observed also when the flash is ignited in the empty spectrometer. |
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| Upon closer inspection, this claim proves exaggerated, an artifact of exit-poll procedures and inconsistency in question wording. |
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| Note that the notal cleft seen in these preparations is an artifact of the mounting procedure. |
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| Could the observed bundling be an artifact of specimen preparation for electron microscopy? |
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| In addition, PCA is an easy way to remove the ballistocardiogram artifact by eliminating the first principal component. |
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| Only one other of his bloodline had ever tried to gain mastery over the artifact, and had been condemned for his impertinence. |
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| To avoid this artifact, we excluded the values below the threshold intensity from the average calculation. |
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| Jim continued to run his fingers over the artifact, exploring each etch and nick. |
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| I wasn't about to let people go around pawing a holy artifact like it was just any old piece of junk. |
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| This was not an artifact, as those erythrocytes fixed within the blood vessels retained a normal biconcave shape. |
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| Traditional clothing, from mukluks to fur parkas, has become valued as art and artifact outside the Inuit. |
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| He presents the diary as an artifact found in the estate of a wealthy New Englander by his grandson. |
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| The only thing that places it as an early 80s artifact is the sound of guitars squeezed through chorus pedals. |
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| Additional electrodes were placed at the outer canthus of each eye to obtain the subject's EOG, which was used to facilitate artifact scoring. |
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| While property may have value in a religious or monetary sense, that valuation subsists in the cultural artifact which is possession. |
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| That significant cultural artifact, The National Enquirer, delivered a sucker punch to my solar plexus today when I read, stunned. |
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| The old sheets of paper, too, present the quality of a personal artifact, like something retained from childhood. |
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| In case any artifact is found, it should be photographed in colour as well as in black and white. |
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| As an artifact of its time and of its bizarre fetishistic sport, the film excels. |
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| By conceptualizing an artifact as a world, we can explore it as a space, story, or game, depending on its emphasis. |
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| Figura puts the stress on the shaped artifact itself and the viewer's efforts to interpret it. |
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| I grew up with a clear picture of the Iron Curtain too, since it was spoken of as though it were as coherent an artifact as the Berlin Wall. |
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| Librarians have much to learn from their publishing counterparts about the book as an artifact. |
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| The appearance of serous demilunes may, in fact, be an artifact of sample fixation. |
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| To begin with, there is the matter of its provenance, which concerns the origin or derivation of an artifact. |
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| Manufacturers of pulse oximeters have sought to reduce motion artifact in the pulse signal through improvements in the algorithms. |
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| Artifacts present on this recording include the ECG artifact in the electro-oculogram and ECG leads. |
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| A very common artifact from prehistoric sites in this region is the end-scraper. |
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| The troubling fact is that a successful, ubiquitously published and clearly-credited piece of design can quickly become an artifact to be lusted after by hungry practitioners. |
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| For me, as a pure movie fan, the exploitation genre was just a welcome wake-up call, a chance to retrace the past and reconnect with an important lost artifact. |
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| This influence, as well as a slightly warped sense of humor, manifest themselves in her strange cryptozoological creations and each peculiar artifact she creates. |
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| In particular, the research team is interested in the temporal span of mining activity in the cave and identification of chert testing locations and artifact palimpsests. |
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| Following the artifact rejecting procedure, the single trial data were averaged separately for each of the six electrode sites and four stimulus conditions. |
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| The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently. |
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| The debate over whether kitsch constitutes a genuine art form becomes moot if the artifact in question reaches a certain critical mass of sheer buoyancy. |
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| And Romney as remainderman is not a function of mere circumstance, but an artifact of explicit calculation. |
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| Today, researchers are flummoxed as to the whereabouts of this gargantuan cultural artifact. |
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| But the interference between the substitutional principle of origins and the authorial or performative principle of artifact production was dynamic. |
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| The role of ceramics in building chronologies and as signifiers of cultural similarity single this artifact category out as a prime focus for archaeometric research. |
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| Why, then, do I finally feel that the novel fails to cohere, that the novelist's alchemy does not transform all these wonderful ingredients into a golden artifact? |
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| A trio of rogue English thugs is in pursuit of the same artifact, as are scads of very large Egyptian and African chappies with huge scimitars and daggers. |
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| The film is most interesting as an historical artifact and an example of a black-cast film that seems to respect the actors, though not financially. |
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| The returned object was not a mesopotamian artifact, at least not in a traditional sense. |
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| The kilogram is the only one of the seven basic units of the international measurement system defined by a physical artifact rather than a natural phenomenon. |
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| During the Vietnam war, conversion disorders were seldom encountered as repressed memories, and abreactive treatments became a quaint historical artifact. |
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| Movement artifact and the ballistocardiogram artifact can be minimized by the EEG setup, and the RF artifact can be filtered out with appropriate software. |
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| It was such a resounding failure, but I was coming at that conversation as a fan of the movie as a pop culture artifact. |
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| The essay itself seems an artifact of a dying tradition, and not just in its grandiosity. |
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| Similar disjunct distributions are known in other species, however, it is unclear in this case if the gap in the distribution is real or an artifact of collecting effort. |
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| Venice as a city has seemed irrelevant, a storied artifact of a Romantic past that serves merely as a decorous backdrop for an event geared toward utopian futures. |
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| So, when that significant cultural artifact, The Star published an article about catfighting on the set of Desperate Housewives, well, we were so there. |
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| Were these negative findings an artifact of the procedures used in the study, or were they a valid reflection of the relationships that existed in the sample? |
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| Given how infrequently new copies of the map appeared on the market, collectors would bid handsomely for the artifact. |
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| Each creature was viewed as the artifact of a divine blueprint. The role of the biologist was to reverse engineer God's handiwork. |
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| The artifact was cleaned sonically in the ultrasonic cleaner tank in mere seconds. |
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| It's not just an artifact of the human propensity to anthropomorphize things. |
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| The very act of looking at a naked model was an artifact of male supremacy. |
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| This altered configuration would occur with misplaced electrodes and is considered to be a nonarrhythmic artifact. |
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| Insofar as it is a cultural artifact, I Ching lends itself to a mediumistic study. |
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| Despite misdating that crucial artifact Flashdance, Boswell's sense of the period's pop culture is sure and almost painfully exhilarating. |
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| According to the authors, thermoluminescence testing indicates that the artifact is not a fake, so this potential problem doesn't come up. |
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| The only identifiable artifact is a perfectly circular slab of concrete. |
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| In this way, the filmmaker uses the Chinese culture's most symbolic artifact, its ideographs, as a basis for gentle mockery. |
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| The newspaper column as we kno it is an artifact of telegraphy. |
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| After carbon-dating the artifact, the archaeologist determined that it was of late bronze age manufacture. |
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| In other words, the TPFR is a misleading measure of life cycle fertility when childbearing age is changing, due to this statistical artifact. |
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| To survive, Jack seeks out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact whose owner can control the seas and break curses. |
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| A stone artifact scatter also existed at a nearby site, but has been destroyed by development. |
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| Another stone artifact scatter has been identified at Point Richards, in the west of the town. |
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| One of the characteristic types of artifact of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland is the flat axe. |
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| Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact. |
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| For each artifact embodies a single variant of a performance in a given time and space. |
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| Each of these is a folklore artifact in its own right, potentially worthy of investigation and cultural analysis. |
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| If this performance deviates too far from audience expectations of the familiar folk artifact, they will respond with negative feedback. |
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| Here the text designates the physical artifact itself, the single item made by an individual for a specific purpose. |
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| When pottery is placed within the context of linguistic and migratory patterns, it becomes an even more prevalent category of social artifact. |
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| For instance, a bone removed from an animal carcass is a biofact, but a bone carved into a useful implement is an artifact. |
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| One ancient artifact found in bogs in many places is bog butter, large masses of fat, usually in wooden containers. |
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| This comparison process often involves classifying them typologically and identifying other sites with similar artifact assemblages. |
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| The artifact, associated with Jiroft, bears five sequential images depicting a wild goat jumping up to eat the leaves of a tree. |
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| There is a huge overlap, and this firewall is very much an artifact. |
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| A designer constructs a conceptual model of the artifact by abstracting knowledge from previous experiences and information stored in the memory. |
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| The input artifact image is convolved with mask weight to measure the difference in intensity along horizontal and vertical directions. |
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| Marie-Laure and her father, possibly entrusted with a valuable artifact, take refuge in the walled Breton town of Saint-Malo. |
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| I was thinking that you could use the same engine to put Atogs and big artifact creatures in, similar to the mono-brown deck with a splash of blue. |
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| This is partly a statistical artifact known as regression to the mean. |
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| This theory addresses the question about how, with multiple performers and multiple audiences, the artifact maintains its identity across time and geography. |
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| For Central Europe a different system developed by Paul Reinecke is commonly used, as each area has its own artifact types and archaeological periods. |
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| In fact, any written work or artifact that in any way shows humankind's relationship to the natural world is likely to catch the attention of the ecocritic. |
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| The earlier 14C date from a bone artifact at the Old Crow Flats site has been supplanted by an Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 14C date that indicates a Holocene age. |
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| As the context changes, so must the artifact, for without modifications to map existing artifacts into the evolving cultural landscape, they lose their meaning. |
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