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• Mortimer J. Adler
  ...t, the very phrase "[[noncognitive ethics]]" declares that ethics is not a body of knowledge. ...reme form of [[dualism]] that stemmed from such philosophers as [[Plato]] (body and soul) and [[Descartes]] (mind and matter):
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• Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland
  ...ost recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish Geography, Physical, Statistical and Historical."<ref>[http://www.maybole.org/history/Gazatteer ...rough]], [[civil parish]], and [[diocese]], describing their political and physical features and naming the principal people of each place.
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• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
  ...and those of the Philosophers who have the right view...maintain that the body is only a prison of the soul, or a veil, an intermediary path or an isthmus ...asa'il'' is vast and ranges from mathematics, music, logic, astronomy, the physical and natural sciences, as well as exploring the nature of the soul and inves
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• Homeostasis
  ...l Rev. 1929; 9: 399-431.</ref> and 1932<ref>Cannon WB. ''The Wisdom of the Body''. 1932. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York.</ref><ref>[[Karl Ludwig von ...xotherm]]ic (both [[ectotherm]] and [[poikilotherm]]) animals exhibit wide body temperature variation. Examples of endothermic animals include [[mammals]]
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• Miosis
  | title = Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination ...hormone [[melatonin]], [[Entrainment (chronobiology)|entrainment]] of the body's [[circadian rhythm]]s and regulation of the size of the pupil.
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• Mydriasis
  ...driasis''' is an excessive dilation of the [[pupil]] due to [[disease]], [[Physical trauma|trauma]] or the use of [[drug]]s. Normally, the pupil dilates in the ...[[2C-B]]; and [[Dimethyltryptamine|DMT]], naturally produced by the human body and several hallucinogenic plants, all produce mydriasis by agonizing the [
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• Bingham plastic
  ...'Bingham plastic''' is a [[viscoplastic]] material that behaves as a rigid body at low stresses but flows as a [[viscosity|viscous]] [[fluid]] at high stre ...interaction, creating a weak solid structure, formerly known as a '''false body''', and a certain amount of stress is required to break this structure. On
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• Orthotropic material
  ...nted in physical theories by [[constitutive relation]]s. A large class of physical behaviors can be represented by linear material models that take the form o where <math>\mathbf{d},\mathbf{f}</math> are two vectors representing physical quantities and <math>\boldsymbol{K}</math> is the second-order material ten
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• Ceramic materials
  ...ng" powders into the desired shape, and then [[sintering]] to form a solid body. [[Ceramic forming techniques]] include shaping by hand (sometimes includin The physical properties of any ceramic substance are a direct result of its crystalline
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• Polymer nanocomposite
  The transition from micro- to nano-particles lead to change in its physical as well as chemical properties. Two of the major factors in this are the in ...d, first of all, the guiding of the nanotubes to specific locations in the body by external magnetic fields. '''Super [[paramagnetic]] particles''' are kno
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• Shape memory polymer
  ...ub>perm</sub>'', is the temperature that must be exceeded to establish the physical crosslinks responsible for the permanent shape. The switching segments, on ...g and flow of polymer chains, cross-linking can be used, both chemical and physical.
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• Synthetic biodegradable polymer
  * It is [[metabolized]] in the body after fulfilling its purpose. ...anical properties until it is no longer needed and then be absorbed by the body leaving no trace. The backbone of the polymer is hydrolytically unstable. T
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• Biopolymer
  Kumar, A., et al., "Smart Polymers: Physical Forms & Bioengineering Applications", Progress in Polymer Science, Vol. 32, ...these polymers have ordered branched structures. Starch, for example, is a physical combination of branched and linear polymers (amylopectin and amylose, respe
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• Polypropylene
  ==Chemical and physical properties== ...blow-molding production process. As the melt flow increases, however, some physical properties, like impact strength, will decrease.
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• Micro-encapsulation
  ...rs are the most common. The technique of microencapsulation depends on the physical and chemical properties of the material to be encapsulated.<ref name=cat>{{ ===Physical methods===
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• Polyethylene terephthalate
  ...les a test tube with the bottle-cap threads already molded into place. The body of the tube is significantly thicker, as it will be inflated into its final ...eristics during each recycling cycle, which are detectable by chemical and physical laboratory analysis.
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• Polyethylene glycol
  ...nt molecular weights find use in different applications and have different physical properties (e.g., [[viscosity]]) due to chain length effects, their chemica ...s|author = Tonya Johnson|title = Army Scientists, Engineers develop Liquid Body Armor|url = http://www.militaryinfo.com/news_story.cfm?textnewsid=961|date
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• Double layer (interfacial)
  ...d particle, a gas bubble, a liquid [[droplet]], or a [[porous media|porous body]]. The DL refers to two parallel layers of charge surrounding the object. T ...Helmholtz treated the DL mathematically as a simple capacitor, based on a physical model in which a single layer of ions is adsorbed at the surface.
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• Depleted uranium
  .../> It is weakly radioactive and remains so because of its long [[half-life|physical half-life]] (4.468 billion years for [[uranium-238]]), but has a considerab {{quotation|Annex II to the [[Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material]] 1980 (which became operative on 8 February
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• Metallic bond
  ...on as neutral (non-charged) entities. Metallic bonding accounts for many [[physical properties]] of metals, such as [[Strength of materials|strength]], [[malle ...drawback. It remains a one-electron approximation to a multitudinous many-body problem. In other words, the energy states of each electron are described a
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