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Finally, in the bulk absorber at the atomic scale, elemental vacancy and substitutional defects, such as VCu, In and CuZn, significantly affect doping and recombination, and consequently device performance.

From Nature Aug. 15, 2012

This paper, then, will contain three sections: an introductory one on symmetry in primitive art, and two main sections, one on experiments in substitutional symmetry, and one on substitutional symmetry or balance in pictures.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg

And the minds of the people thus thrown loose from their former ties, are not arrested and recovered by any substitutional ones formed while those were decaying.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster

Our author appositely quotes from Puffer's Studies in Symmetry: "A picture composed in substitutional symmetry is more rich in its suggestions of motor impulse, and thus more beautiful, than an example of geometrical symmetry."

From Unicorns by James Huneker

The hypothesis of substitutional symmetry is thus completely confirmed.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg




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