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The term's proximate origin remains obscure--some analysts have suggested an association with the world of sport or finance, where activities are indeed governed by an actual daily cycle and where a metaphoric sense could easily have arisen out of the literal one.
The number of bathrooms for surgeons and surgical staff, proximate to the operating rooms, has been reduced so that there can be wheelchair-accessible bathrooms.
USAT says the proximate cause was Moody's downgrading the rating of five Japanese banks and deploring the entire banking system of Indonesia.
By contrast, it appears that proximate ecological correlates of diversity gradients differ considerably between north and south.
We can better understand the nature of genetic conflicts in scale insects by studies of the genetic structure of scale insect populations, together with studies of sex ratio variation and the proximate mechanisms of sex determination.