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  • 31quiescency — noun 1. a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy • Syn: ↑dormancy, ↑quiescence • Derivationally related forms: ↑quiescent, ↑dormant, ↑quiescent ( …

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  • 32Sleep — Waking up redirects here. For other uses, see Waking Up (disambiguation). This article is about sleep in general; for specifically non human sleep see Sleep (non human); for other uses, see Sleep (disambiguation). Sleeping child Sleep is a… …

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  • 33Yin and yang — For information about (and other uses of) the symbol , see Taijitu. Taoism This article is part of a series on Taoism …

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  • 34Richard Worth — The Honourable Dr Richard Worth OBE, VRD, KStJ, MJur, MBA, PhD …

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  • 35Diapause — is the delay in development in response to regularly and recurring periods of adverse environmental conditions.[1][2] It is considered to be a physiological state of dormancy with very specific initiating and inhibiting conditions. Diapause is a… …

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  • 36B. Alan Wallace — is an author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics. Stated simply,… …

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  • 37Insect development during storage — requires special consideration when further criminal investigation is necessary to solve a crime. Decomposition is a natural process of the body, dissipating slowly over time. This process is aided by insects, making the rate of decomposition… …

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  • 38diestrus — A period of sexual quiescence intervening between two periods of estrus. [G. dia, between, + oistros, desire] * * * di·es·trus ( )dī es trəs also di·es·trum trəm or chiefly Brit di·oes·trus also di·oes·trum ēs n a period of sexual quiescence that …

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  • 39B. Alan Wallace — B. Alan Wallace, Padma Samten, Marlene Rossi Severino Nobre (pt) et Roberto Lúcio Vieira de Souza, UFRGS en 2009 …

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  • 40Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… …

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