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During the past three years, I have taught an undergraduate course in genomics (www.bio.davidson.edu/genomics) in which I capitalize on a confluence of two trends in the field: public domain databases and open-access journals (Campbell 2003).
A literature search was used to identify facility acquisition practices and industry trends, as well as best practices and technologies being used to provide adequate management and oversight of design reviews.
Sandpiles, for those unfamiliar with pop science trends, are the motivating example for a concept known as "self-organized criticality," which, in turn, is one of the Big Ideas of so-called "complexity theory."
Confirmation of this is indicated by the different trends of heart rate in the group A patients who were treated with a β-blocker as compared with those who were not.
Technology to remove SO2 is anticipated to continue along current trends and rely heavily on wet FGD and other advanced technologies.