basis
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Turing's final major work from 1952, called The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis, went for £19,500, while his first published paper from 1935, Equivalence of Left and Right Almost Periodicity, sold for £7,800.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025
Sapolsky is “a wonderful explainer of complex phenomena,” said Peter U. Tse, a Dartmouth neuroscientist and author of the 2013 book “The Neural Basis of Free Will.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023
I first saw Christof Koch, the neuroscientist, and David Chalmers, the philosopher, butt heads in 1994 at a now legendary conference in Tucson, Ariz., called Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness.
From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023
One such theory of how this might work is known as the "Cellular Basis of Consciousness" theory.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2022
That making upon the same Basis, a Cone of a less Altitude, it shall be also less grave, and shall so much the more rest without Submersion.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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