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** In a variation on the basic definition of a bioship, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Emergence ", features a story in which the Enterprise-D develops an artificial intelligence from the sum of the ship's experiences, for the sole purpose of creating a biological life form which is released into space.
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** seasonal variation: Rainfall may be distributed evenly throughout the year or be marked by seasonal variations.
** Rose tanned leather is a variation of vegetable oil tanning and brain tanning, where pure rose otto replaces the vegetable oil and emulsified oils.
** Self-focusing, an effect due to the Optical Kerr effect ( and possibly higher order nonlinearities ) caused by the spatial variation in the intensity creating a spatial variation in the refractive index
** Self-phase modulation ( SPM ), an effect due to the Optical Kerr effect ( and possibly higher order nonlinearities ) caused by the temporal variation in the intensity creating a temporal variation in the refractive index
** Illuminati Crime Lords, a mafia-based variation on Illuminati which combines gameplay elements of the original Illuminati and INWO.
** Kaplan turbine, a variation of the Francis Turbine.
** Tolerance analysis, the study of accumulated variation in mechanical parts and assemblies
** Lipped shipwright's adze-A variation of the shipwright's adze.
** Clusters ending in or exhibit variation in whether the first or second element is deleted.
** Jaguar AJ-V6 engine — V6 ( a variation of a Ford engine )
** A variation on the log cabin starts with two pieces of fuelwood with a pile of tinder between them, and small kindling laid over the tops of the logs, above the tinder.
** Another variation is called the funeral pyre method because it is used for building funeral pyres.
** Another variation to the top lighter, log cabin, or pyre is known by several names, most notably the pyramid, self-feeding, and upside-down.
** Red blood cell distribution width ( RDW )-the variation in cellular volume of the RBC population.
Another variation is 15. i11 16. J12 * 17. D9 * 18. H13 * 19. G12 ** 20. F14 * 21. B14 22. D14 23. D15 * 24. E16 ** 25. C12 * 26. C17 * black wins.
Continuing this variation, 19. H11 ** 20. J4 21. J3 22. L5 * 23. i5 ** 24. K7 **
** As a variation, estimate the cost of a smaller habitat, such as Biosphere 2, and multiply its cost by the ratio between the population of Earth and of that smaller habitat.
** As another variation, figure out every disaster that might occur due to failure of the biosphere, to lesser or greater degree, and calculate the price of insurance against all of it.
** Common variation: A player can outbid a 30 point bid by bidding ' 30 for 60 '.
** Common variation: Players may discard all five cards, but when being replenished, the fifth card is dealt face-up.
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** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.
** For every non-empty set S there is a binary operation defined on S that makes it a group.
** The Vitali theorem on the existence of non-measurable sets which states that there is a subset of the real numbers that is not Lebesgue measurable.
** See also Salmond on " Citizenship and Allegiance ," in the Law Quarterly Review ( July 1901, January 1902 ).
** This is, on the whole, an informed and good account of the life and accomplishments of one of the greatest influences on the development of thought both Eastern and Western.
** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).
** Earliest day on which Caribana celebration can fall, celebrated on the first Weekend of August.
** Earliest day on which Emancipation Day can fall, celebrated on the first Monday of August.
** Lughnasadh, traditionally begins on the eve of August 1.
** Cadius Rufus was executed on the charge of extortion.
** Various articles on Alcidamas ( 1856 – 1919, with links to further online material )
** Gordon-Reed, Annette speaking on CSPAN Booktv Andrew Johnson
** Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey, most commonly celebrated on April 13 ( Cambodia )
** To use a long dash on Wikipedia, type in "".
** called a god on Malta ( 28: 6 )
** Ability to run on an IA-64 architecture processor, although this never went beyond beta
** Minimum level required for POWER4 hardware and the last release that worked on the Micro Channel architecture
** Ability to run in a Logical Partition on POWER4
** Ability to run on 64-bit architecture CPUs
** Run on RS / 6000 systems with PowerPC processors and PCI busses.
** Optional POKEY sound chip on cartridge for improved sounds.
** Headphone port ( stereo ; wired for mono on the original Lynx )
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