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rapidly and changes
The first symptom of CJD is rapidly progressive dementia, leading to memory loss, personality changes and hallucinations.
The classical rule, recognized by Clausius and by Kelvin, is that the pressure exerted by the calorimetric material is fully and rapidly determined solely by its temperature and volume ; this rule is for changes that do not involve phase change, such as melting of ice.
Qualitative changes occur not gradually, but rapidly and abruptly, as leaps from one state to another.
" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.
Eldredge's interpretation of the Phacops fossil record was that the aftermaths of the lens changes, but not the rapidly occurring evolutionary process, were fossilized.
Fear of what the changes might mean for them ( as much of the country's businesses were Chinese owned ), a Malay backlash resulted, leading rapidly to riots and inter-communal violence in which about 6, 000 Chinese homes and businesses were burned and at least 184 people were killed.
The output voltage of the switched-on transistor Q1 changes rapidly from high to low since this low-resistive output is loaded by a high impedance load ( the series connected capacitor C1 and the high-resistive base resistor R2 ).
If the voltage changes by a large enough amount, an all-or-none electrochemical pulse called an action potential is generated, which travels rapidly along the cell's axon, and activates synaptic connections with other cells when it arrives.
Because these changes occur very rapidly they define an upper limit on the volume of a quasar ; quasars are not much larger than the Solar System.
Although Otto is initially disgusted by the concept of repossessing cars, his opinion changes rapidly when he is quickly paid in cash for his first " job ".
They express relations between macroscopic mechanical variables and temperature that are reached much more rapidly than the progress of any imposed changes in the surroundings, and are in effect variables of state for thermodynamic equilibrium.
Terminology in some areas changes quite rapidly to accommodate the constantly growing knowledge base.
Since then, evolutionary changes in chromosome numbers have taken place about twenty times faster in mammals than in frogs which means that speciation is occurring more rapidly in mammals.
In some weather conditions, such as inversion layers, density changes so rapidly that waves are guided around the curvature of the earth at constant altitude.
* T1-DALY and 55 OCTET-Each of these patterns contain fifty-five ( 55 ), eight bit octets of data in a sequence that changes rapidly between low and high density.
This originates from the short nanosecond or less upper state lifetime, so that the gain reacts rapidly to changes of pump or signal power and the changes of gain also cause phase changes which can distort the signals.
* Thermocline, a layer within a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth
has the units of radians per unit distance and is a measure of how rapidly the disturbance changes over a given distance at a particular point in time.
has the units of radians per unit time and is a measure of how rapidly the disturbance changes over a given length of time at a particular point in space.
These systems are able to compensate sudden changes of power factor much more rapidly than contactor-switched capacitor banks, and being solid-state require less maintenance than synchronous condensers.
Pinker said it was unlikely since the decline in violence happened too rapidly to be explained by genetic changes.
There are both acute ( changes more or less rapidly with changes in blood glucose ), and chronic ( longer term, slower changing ) lens shape changes in diabetics, making eye examinations -- for vision correction, for instance -- somewhat tricky.

rapidly and mind
While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.
Grave in the Dean Cemetery, EdinburghThomas Bouch retired to Moffat, " his health ", already not good, " more rapidly gave way .. under the shock and distress of mind " caused by the disaster, and he died 30 October 1880 a few months after the public inquiry into the disaster finished.
Barbauld herself was happy to be nearer her brother, John, because her husband's mind was rapidly failing.
After retiring from the National Library in 1875, his strength of body and mind began to give way, and after losing his second wife, Salvadora Hiriat, he failed rapidly and died at his home in Madrid on 2 August 1880.
* A scientist accidentally creates a giant amoeba that grows rapidly, eats living things ( like the lab assistant's cat ), and exhibits powers of mind control.
Once he arrived in England, the RAF changed its mind and sent him and the first group of Poles to fighter squadrons which were rapidly being deployed in anticipation of an attack on Britain in 1940.
The human mind processes the series of slightly changing, rapidly playing images as motion, hence making it appear that the object is moving by itself.
Research on theory of mind in a number of different populations ( human and animal, adults and children, normally-and atypically-developing ) has grown rapidly in the almost 30 years since Premack and Woodruff's paper, " Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?
However, he soon changed his mind, because without looking as if it had turned, the craft rapidly descended in his direction.
His greatest power turns out to be his greatest weakness: he reenacts the match in his mind repeatedly with all imaginable possibilities so rapidly that Czentovic's deliberation and placidness drive him to distraction and ultimately insanity, culminating in an incorrect move after which Dr. B awakens from his frenzy.
Later, events demonstrate that there is not likely to be such an abundance of lodgers, and that the town is therefore unlikely to grow so rapidly as Mr. Parker expresses ; yet, in his mind and in his communications, the town thrives.
Whereas the Flood are only hinted at being intelligent in Halo: Combat Evolved, the Halo Graphic Novel shows the Flood have a hive mind, assimilating the knowledge of their hosts rapidly.
are typically evolutionary psychologists who are searching for scenarios in which a population can get itself by behavioral trial and error onto a " hard to find " part of the fitness landscape in which human brain, language, and mind can rapidly coevolve.
David stays at a motel for the night and, upon hearing about Effie's death the next morning, goes on the run, his mind rapidly degenerating into confusion and insanity.
By the summer of 1976, he noted that the story was completed in his mind, but by then his health was failing rapidly.
His personality characteristics were said to be " cool and thoughtful ", able to " think rapidly on his feet ", with a " quick, analytical mind ".
Extrapolating these trends, he speculates about a coming " mind fire " of rapidly expanding superintelligence similar to the explosion of intelligence predicted by Vinge.
They, however, developed the DNA Resequencer, a device capable of making humans so advanced that they could perform telepathy ; perform telekinesis ; use superhuman senses, speed, and strength ; use precognition ; achieve perfect health ; gain the ability to self-heal rapidly and the power to heal by touch ; and the ability to use many parts of their mind and fully focus on something.

rapidly and runs
The physician, puzzled by a patient's reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology.
The length of runs in the theatre changed rapidly during the Victorian period.
Daimler and Lanchester, there were no more BSA cars, struggled after the War, producing too many models with short runs and limited production, and frequently selling too few of each model, while Jaguar seemed to know what the public wanted and expanded rapidly.
Yatima matures within a few real-time days, because citizens ' subjective time runs about 800 times as rapidly as flesher and gleisner time.
Rainfall runs off the roofs and hard surfaces, raising river levels very rapidly.
The head, neck and tail are lowered, wings held out and feathers fluffed as the bird runs rapidly and voices a continuous alarm call.
It runs rapidly on the ground, and when flushed, does not fly far.
Amongst other plotlines, a young medical student becomes attracted to the nurse in charge of the sleep research laboratory, a ghostly ambulance appears and disappears every night, a junior doctor runs a black market in medical supplies, and a neurosurgeon discovers that she was impregnated by a ghost and that her baby is developing abnormally rapidly.
Cobb also rapidly runs through domestic workers, hiring and firing them in quick succession.
If the player runs out of time before finishing the round, the purple ghost will speed up rapidly.
Taking wickets is crucial to win the match as the more wickets the opposition have in hand ( not-out batsmen ) the greater the chances of the batsmen scoring runs rapidly.
The tide runs rapidly on the Hugli, and produces a remarkable example of the fluvial phenomenon known as a " tidal bore.
As new software rapidly catches illegal activity at the teller / branch level instead of waiting for the nightly runs to the back office, schemes are not only easier to detect, but may be prevented by tellers who deny customers illegal transactions before they are even started.
Whilst weeks at number one began to increase with significant numbers achieving 4 week runs, and The Black Eyed Peas breaking a chart record in the 21st century, single sales rapidly plummeted, decreasing by 34 % since 2002.
On July 11, 2008, Valuable Group acquired MovieBeam, known for its success in rapidly building and operating numerous media and entertainment initiatives also started and runs the largest satellite-based digital cinema network in the world.
From the Bunha torrent the range rises rapidly to the culminating peak of Tilla Jogian and thence sinks as rapidly, but a series of low parallel ridges runs out across the valley of the Kahan.
As the motor runs the rubber piece oscillates rapidly in a circular motion.
In Dallas, Texas, abandoned railroad tracks that once divided the downtown core are rapidly being transformed into the unifying Katy Trail, a linear long landscaped pedestrian, inline skating, and bicycle trail system that runs through the most densely developed section of the city.
Following the establishment of the state of South Australia in 1836, the region between the coast and the Murray River was rapidly being settled by squatters selecting large runs for sheep grazing.
Following the establishment of the colony of South Australia in 1835, the region between the coast and the Murray River was rapidly being settled by squatters selecting large runs for sheep grazing.

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