Garland has plotted a novel which is decidedly unflashy, despite its violent premise, and is disarmingly brief. |
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When the comparability values for the samples are plotted in descending order, we can detect significant changes in the slope of the graph. |
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Although it may be smartly scripted and ingeniously plotted, this is unapologetically a genre flick. |
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As I plotted the epic crash of this colossus, my heart began to pound in anticipation. |
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The locations of both urial and livestock were plotted on a map of the area. |
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A practising witch, she wound up under guard after she plotted to kill her stepson Henry V by sorcery. |
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The gang plotted to put drugs money into normal circulation through betting. |
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He took the rejection of his suit to the princess hard, and has plotted revenge against those caused the rejection of his suit. |
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McIntosh sees parallels with Lady Macbeth, the Shakespearean villainess who famously asked for male characteristics as she plotted murder. |
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Drivers punch in their starting point and destination and the quickest route is automatically plotted on a screen. |
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However, the key to all these innovations was the written word and the chart on which you plotted your course. |
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At each study site, we plotted the location of all nest predators seen or heard relative to robin nests. |
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Here, the amplitude of the eigenvector in the lowest-frequency mode is plotted on the ordinate whereas the abscissa shows the residue number. |
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Time in minutes is plotted along the abscissa and the cumulative number of responses is plotted on the ordinate. |
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Brave new storylines are plotted, tackling issues like illiteracy, drink driving and vote rigging. |
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Every angle is carefully plotted, and tension builds steadily throughout the film. |
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Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's later comedies and one of his most intricately plotted plays. |
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The police begin investigating him as an accessory to the murder, for having plotted and planned it with the killer. |
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Sayle is on familiar ground here, and the story is well plotted and both dialogue and historical description are credible. |
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The work is clearly very well planned and organise, and the story has been carefully plotted to be tight and layered. |
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The Thai Marines used compasses to mark the minefield and plotted the locations of the mines. |
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The time to treatment morbidity and survival were plotted as a step function. |
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The data were plotted on a semi-logarithmic scale, so that the histogram peaks from 2C to 32C were evenly distributed along the abscissa. |
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The PM and his wife boarded a flight to Portugal today, as politicians plotted their summer escape from the Westminster village. |
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It is also eloquently plotted, so we understand the situations and dramatics instantly and inherently. |
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Whatever you may think of the lady's literary ability, an Agatha Christie whodunit is going to be cleverly plotted, make no mistake. |
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While the team performed in office, others plotted against them, filling the air with harmful rumours and wild allegations. |
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Receiver operating characteristic curves were plotted for the early and late stages of the disease in both the areas. |
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For the first year I raved and plotted revenge, and a fat lot of good it did me. |
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Survival curves were plotted and the significance of differences between life spans of strains was analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test. |
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The percentage of genes transcribed at a certain level is plotted against the relative level of gene transcription. |
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From there the two talking heads plotted and pasted together the concept of an international race, which would attract all comers. |
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The intimate zone of home is plotted on the abstract graticule of the globe. |
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We plotted our methods of evasion like we were planning a covert military operation, carefully mapping out alternate routes of entry and exit. |
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Isochronal tail current amplitudes were normalized to the maximum amplitude obtained from that oocyte and plotted versus test potential. |
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He established historical connections and plotted them on systematic analytical tables. |
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Finally, frequencies versus displacement amplitude curves were plotted for different layered systems. |
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When these curves are plotted on the same axes, their intersection points define the stable points of the system. |
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Figures and diagrams were plotted by hand on graph paper and then farmed out to a graphic artist. |
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The ratio of P and Ca retention to protein gain for all animals older than the newborn calves was then plotted against animal age. |
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With this novel she ups the ante, breaking new ground with a superbly plotted and gripping historical novel. |
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When analysing survival data, the survival curves should always be plotted. |
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Adjust the voltage to the light bulb using the slider and observe the electric current through the bulb as plotted on the graph at right. |
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As with all of his novels, it's tightly plotted, extremely well written, with twists and turns aplenty. |
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However, the manually plotted graphs were time consuming and susceptible to drafting errors. |
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As a first approximation of winter range, I plotted museum specimen records by month on maps of the Western Hemisphere. |
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In the next graph we have plotted the monthly price of U.S. dollar Gold and the year-to-year change in U.S. currency circulation, inverted. |
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The trajectory could then be plotted and extrapolated backwards so that its position could be located. |
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The echo sounder had plotted a rise in the sea bed levelling to an uncertain and rough looking plateau. |
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But the two films were in fact the best directed of the competition, and the most deviously plotted. |
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The article abounds with graphs sporting unlabeled axes, imprecise axis scales, inaccurately plotted points, and confused methods explanations. |
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The intron size distributions were plotted as scattergrams with density ellipses for selected pairwise gene comparisons. |
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Two years, they had plotted and planned this scheme, progressing their efforts and perfecting their means. |
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He not only lied, he actively plotted and schemed to pervert the course of justice. |
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Once points are plotted, the information is stored in a job file on the data collector for future use. |
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They worried about love, marriage and work, fussed about their children, gossiped and plotted. |
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Lathe plotted the actual and relative growth of the trees by year against total nickel production in Canada. |
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Recruitment curves for beetle populations on each soybean genotype were plotted by fitting a Ricker model to the data using likelihood methods. |
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Note that sometimes a new point will be plotted further to the right than any previous one. |
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Both bull power and bear power are plotted as histograms under the bar chart of your chosen security. |
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Densely plotted and vividly acted, the film's abundance of ideas and intrigue wind up stretched perilously thin. |
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My forward observers plotted their defensive concentrations and barrages where we thought they should be. |
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Alfred's law declared that a man's life and property were forfeit if he plotted against the king. |
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The outcomes for a range of spins and velocities can be plotted on a graph. |
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The time ranges of events have been plotted to take account of the errors on radiometric dates. |
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It doesn't miss an obvious, telegraphed joke, but never comes up with an instance of humor that isn't contrived, plotted, or stale. |
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These data were plotted on polar coordinate paper and area was estimated using a planimeter. |
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Approximately, only every fifth data point is actually plotted on the graphs. |
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With previous records, inexperienced technicians had interpreted relatively simple information from an oscilloscope and plotted it on a graph. |
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We schemed and plotted by internet, e-mail and conference call, and now the team has come together for the first time. |
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Lines connect all data points but symbols representing only every twelfth data point were plotted. |
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I plotted out the menu for the next week and wrote up the grocery shopping list. |
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Leaning out the window, one half of my face bathed in moonbeams, I plotted my fantastic escape. |
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A graphical display of attitudes about distance education and the delivery of course materials were plotted. |
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He was always open to new ideas and innovations and increasingly his life became the canvas on which he plotted his art. |
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Now the book's no work of art, but it's certainly tightly plotted and nice and tense, which is all it set out to be. |
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The old leather chart spilled out to show a cleverly plotted route of the swamplands. |
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Data from the first and second PC and the geographical coordinates for each breed were combined and plotted as contoured geographic maps using a geostatistical griding method. |
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On the Panamanian side, city blocks were plotted along radial avenues. |
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Old friends are reacquainted, new ones made, and future plans plotted. |
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After moving in, they plotted a seven-year remodeling plan, working on their own house in between Pick's jobs rehabbing a growing list of clients' homes. |
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Patterns characteristic of one, two or multiple dipping layers of anisotropic rock may be revealed when these parameters are plotted as a function of arrival azimuth. |
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However, bedding-cleavage intersection lineations for this regionally developed cleavage display distinctly different distributions when plotted in stereographic projection. |
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Returned to St Petersburg, they transformed the lodges into secret societies and plotted to bring constitutional rule to an autocratic, caste-ridden, and militaristic state. |
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German saboteurs plotted a wartime bombing campaign in Britain using exploding cans of processed peas, according to secret files made public for the first time today. |
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The course was plotted with near perfection and brought them close to the first planet in Sol, Mercury, its orbit drastically altered due to the need for terraforming. |
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She has plotted her campaign to become the first Scotswoman to win an Olympic gold medal as her sport takes centre stage on the opening day of the Games in September. |
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For this analysis, all residual values were normalized according to the square-root of the line scan intensity and plotted as a function of distance from the nearest Z line. |
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Marine lance corporal Kody Brittingham plotted from his barracks at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. |
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This tautly written, tightly plotted time bomb of a fiction covers two generations and 50 years in under 90 pages. |
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As Whitmire and madden plotted in Texas, the idea was sprouting roots across the country. |
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The navigator, David Marchant, a larger-than-life figure, had plotted a course to Florida that Nyad and her team trusted. |
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All basalt chemical compositions can be plotted in the basalt tetrahedron, which has normative quartz, olivine, nepheline and augite at the apices. |
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Then Cruz rounded up some of the far-right members of the House GOP caucus and plotted a revolt. |
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The September 11 attacks were plotted, not least, to prove they could still be effective. |
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Lucas plotted the film and acted as a consultant on the script. |
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The five stories are intricately plotted and seamlessly woven together. |
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Although the film is strongly plotted, its leisurely pace and quiet tone take it more in the direction of character study than the rollicking caper promised by the packaging. |
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Then it was back to the charts, where each team planned a route and then plotted a magnetic course to steer for each leg of the 13-mile trip to Block Island. |
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In addition, the clear zones and entry control points were also plotted. |
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Survival curves were plotted using the product limit estimates. |
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Poles to the shear fabrics and slickenline data, when plotted on stereographic projections, indicate vergence to the SW with some scatter mainly to the south. |
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The figure shows the regression lines plotted between the 10th and 90th centiles of the self reported general health distribution within each region. |
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These large charts were repeated four times, and on the perspex covering them were plotted with chinagraph pencils reports from aircraft in flight and ships. |
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While his partner had been busy with that job, Haig had driven pegs into the ground, marked out a grid and plotted the positions of the signals from his metal detector. |
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The largest eigenvalue for each model is plotted in the complex plane. |
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I like to think that I've plotted it in such a way that though the idea came from personal experience, that I've moved it away into a realm of obvious fictionality. |
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The map was plotted with various intel her men had gathered. |
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Hallam plotted the number of European Jurassic bivalve species against their estimated stratigraphic range without distinguishing between endemics and cosmopolitans. |
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As if looking out from a watch-tower you give warning to them all, averting dangers and forearming against all the downfalls treacherously plotted by the enemy. |
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Each frame of one of Ofer's movies shows a few thousand syllables from a given bird, plotted on a couple of dimensions such as duration and amount of frequency modulation. |
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In another time he would have plotted with the primo uomo to sing badly and ruin one of my operas, or with others of his ilk to spread rumors about me. |
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This report includes a graphic analysis with the patient's results plotted against normal values so that the examiner can quickly see how a patient compares. |
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When the equation's value, y, is computed for various values of x, the resulting pairs of numbers represent coordinates that can be plotted on a sheet of graph paper. |
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Career paths have been plotted, exotic holidays are there for the taking, they can afford the car of their dreams and all the designer clothes they desire. |
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In the same year, Jacobites plotted to assassinate William III in an attempt to restore James to the English throne, but failed. |
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Here, ideas are plotted on a graph where income in a hypothetical future year is plotted logarithmically against the composite IRL index. |
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Fans plotted the course of the run in with optimism, but the Saints needed that sort of form in every game and couldn't live up to the task. |
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Usually injection pressure, injection velocity, screw position, and sometimes even backpressure can be plotted vs. |
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I take her through the results plotted on a graph we use, called an audiogram, and explain why the results show she has some hearing loss. |
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Using the ideal gas law, Comgas calculated the total volume of leaked gas and plotted it against time, then fitted an equation. |
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Now the set can be plotted as a cluster of points on a plane, and more extremals are possible. |
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The facies of all rocks of a certain age can be plotted on a map to give an overview of the palaeogeography. |
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They plotted the results in tables and color-coded the cells to indicate whether the treatment resulted in a benefit, disbenefit, or neither. |
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This is an entertaining if predictably plotted novel that weaves through the lives of three best girlfriends. |
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The collected data was imported into Microsoft Excel and the CD spectra were plotted in terms of molar ellipticity versus wavelength. |
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As the different depolarizations are activated, peaks in this current are observed when plotted vs. |
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For instance, each bump height measurement on a die can be plotted to study bump coplanarity. |
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The same shift factors were used to superpose the capillary data plotted in Fig. |
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A complex number consists of two parts, which can be pictured as the coordinates of a point plotted on a flat surface, or plane. |
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Richard Strafer and author Norman Mailer each have singled out Gilmore as the prototype of one who plotted his own dramatic end. |
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Trend lines plotted through both measures confirm the steadiness of the growth rates. |
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The predicted titre at a single working dilution was plotted against the observed antiserum titre. |
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Cumulative run vs sample number bar charts for the number of samples centrifuged were also plotted. |
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Though it is unlikely that she had plotted with the rebels, some of them were known to have approached her. |
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The quadratic formula solution and the numerical solution are plotted together in Fig. |
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The curve can be expressed mathematically or plotted on a graph to estimate future production. |
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He managed to escape from prison and plotted a rebellion that would free the island's slaves. |
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Lines of position were then calculated and plotted for each of these observations. |
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Temperature and climate change are cyclical when plotted on a graph of temperature versus time. |
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Osborne asserted that Hammond's second in command, Major Rolph, had plotted against the king's life, and that the governor was cognizant of it. |
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A fault trace is also the line commonly plotted on geologic maps to represent a fault. |
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Only when data were plotted on a map did it become apparent that remarkably regular and continuous magnetic stripes appeared on the ocean floors. |
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George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, plotted against his brother and was executed. |
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He hired a vessel crewed by Corinthians, whom he felt he could trust, but the sailors plotted to throw him overboard and seize his wealth. |
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Stoney showed that the chemical elements could be plotted in a logarithmic spiral with a sesquiple ratio. |
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The antilog of the incremental OD can be plotted against the incremental energy of filter pairs, and plotted at the wavelength where the filter pairs are centered. |
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Tostig, however, remained unconvinced and plotted vengeance. |
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When the route of the channel was more accurately plotted on 11 February, four mines were laid, then more on 12 February when the Channel Dash was on. |
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Subsequently, they used spatial interpolation methods to generate isochron maps that plotted the mean rates of spread of farming in two dimensions. |
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A ship will follow a loxodrome, or rhumb line, by maintaining a constant compass reading that can only be plotted on a Mercator chart with accuracy. |
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Because cells that belong to the same type will have similar characteristics, they are plotted in the same region of the histogram and form a well-defined population. |
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He was cheered for restoring order to a destabilized principality, yet showed no mercy toward thieves, murderers or anyone who plotted against his rule. |
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Divided into a northern section of mostly slaveless small landholders and a south where the large slaveholders lived, responses on some issues could be plotted geographically. |
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Device color gamuts can be plotted in 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional views simultaneously, allowing for precise comparison of the size and shape of different device gamuts. |
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Many geologists, however, do not agree on how to separate the triangle parts into the single components so that the framework grains can be plotted. |
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The obtained values were plotted against time on a semilogarithmic scale. |
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These data were analyzed with Excel microsoftware and plotted. |
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