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... a way to say how it is to continue to go on there is a pattern to deterioration as there is to horror and escape as there is to relating a series of random occurrences that are bound together by the problem of consciousness there is a way to wait in a hospital through moments descriptions of infirmities and remedies that do not end but go on there are the reasons there is...

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...ing unpredictable, what they get is Thomas Cole, a man from the past accidently dragged forward in time. Will he fit their calculations, or is he the random variable that can break the stalemate? – The Variable Man first appeared in the September, 1953 issue of Space Science Fiction magazine. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)...

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...ing noticed.” John grunted. “The satellites won’t spot us by simply doing random sweeps. They probably don’t even know we’re in New York. Let’s just... ...ow ev- erything that I’m going to say, so I don’t gain anything by saying random junk,” Andromeda elaborated. John hesitated…he wanted to make small ... ...ed. “We need to get somewhere inside. We don’t want to get picked up by a random SAT sweep,” Vincent answered, pointing to the sky. “Random SAT swee... .... “Zodiac took over all of the sat- ellites and has the imaging ones doing random sweeps to fnd threats and then sends the Seeker S&D squads afer the... ...n a call is ended, the program has to reset it- self and load all sorts of variables and encryptions. Now since the Flash Storm, there are very few p... ...sure that activity couldn’t be seen from the outside. She hoped that the random satellite sweeps didn’t include infrared imaging or they might be s...

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...pelted fala'if, drowning her sentiments and reminding Kane of the desert's random fury. He welcomed the intrusion, swallowing hints of the cool night ... ... do exactly?" "He's a collection manager..." Therese paused, explained the variables involved in the job, described her co-worker in some detail. "He ...

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... human population growth and that this barrier is related to the biotic and abiotic variables of the environment - is undisputed. Whatever debate th... ...ems do not respect man-made borders and by the stubborn refusal of many ecological variables to succumb to numbers. To complicate things further, d... ... beings. On the contrary, complexity usually points towards a natural source and a random origin. It is also true that complexity and artificiality...

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...at were now this bottom bunk, for imagining and knowing were the fusion of random bits of the fanciful, the real, and the probable in this overall per... ...rapper that was being blown in miscellaneous winds. And here on board this random train, chosen for having a departure time coinciding so well with h... ...liness. At that time it was successful; but here on board this train taken randomly from all trains, there was no motion to hide behind, and just the ... ...re was no motion to hide behind, and just the obvious reminder that he was random, without destination, and out of control. Having no-one and yet as a... ...e he too was a bit of an exploding star, a spewing mess unto himself going randomly forward. Standing there, wanting the worker to suddenly finish his... ... could know outside himself was that right now, perceived with gravity but variable nuances of optimism and humor, he was definitely in this room and,...

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...st strike at it; O yes! it may; thou hast no eyes to see, But hatefully at random dost thou hit. Thy mark is feeble age, but thy false dart Mistak... ...now wind, now rain, Sighs dry her cheeks, tears make them wet again. 42 Variable passions throng her constant woe, As striving who should best beco...

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...y else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Per- egrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakef... ... crea- ture) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. I had a greedy relish fo... ...o think it was of no use cry- ing any more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I ... ...turnkey (poor little fel- low that I was!), and thought how, when Roderick Random was in a debtors prison, there was a man there with nothing on him ... ...- ing that I had heard of such a lady living at a certain place I named at random, and had a curi- osity to know if it were the same. In the course of... ...had, what a face 473 David Copperfield Vol. I she had, what a graceful, variable, enchanting manner! The bell rang again so soon that I made a mere...

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...no doubt. He felt a slight movement of curiosity to glance at two or three random sentences: very slight. And why read them now? They were valueless t... ...nclination for Dacier, witnessed by him, and the shot of the world, flying randomly on the subject, had struck this cuirassier, making light of his ar... ...ouse a songful nest in the bosom of the viewer. Sometimes they were April, variable to soar with rain-skirts and sink with sunshafts. Or they drenched... ... once comparing them and the weather; and you spoke of the “one point more variable in women.” You may forestall your storms. There is no calculating ...

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...on of money and money is supposed to be a good thing. And besides, you are variable, and off to-morrow what you are on to-day; is it not so? and heire... ...kind. They, inquire after me daily.” His cheeks reddened; he had spoken at random, and he wondered that Dahlia should feel it pleasurable to be in- qu...

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...he great insti- tution of flogging; but a solemn execution is one thing, a random stroke another.’ ‘Theories are very good things till you come to man... ...tered by any attention from her; and with James his moods were exceedingly variable, and often very trying, but, in gen- eral, very well endured. Peru...

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...late the sanctu- ary of peace sheltering the calm existence of Sulaco. The variable airs sporting lightly with the vast semi- circle of waters within ... ...emolition of theories any more than with the defence of prejudices, has no random words at its command. The words it pronounces have the value of acts... ...the dogs rushed upon him, barking; men began to shout; a shot was fired at random. He fled away 236 Nostromo from the gates. By the merest accident, ...

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...ir character, too, in their very jests. For they did not throw them out at random, but the very wit of them was grounded upon something or other worth... ...ns, so disturbed and pressed upon them, that they were obliged to fight at random, without any order at all. But at last, when Camillus brought on his... ...ral disposition changed so easily, nor that his real character was so very variable, but, whenever he was sensible that by pur- suing his own inclinat... ... certain author was found of the news, and every one alike had taken it at random, it was aban- doned for the present and thought no more of, until, a...

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...m-dimensional vector where c i represents the weight (or cost) associated with variable x i , for i ∈ I. The optimization problem we are... ... (6) DEFINITION 1.4.1: For a solution x ∈X (A, b), we call 0 i x a binding variable if 0 i x . j i 0 a = b j for i 0 ∈ I and x i a ij ≤ b ... ...y relation equations. And, the set Λ represents all combinations of the binding variables such that every combination can satisfy every fuzzy relati... ...onsider a set of constraints, say B, which can be satisfied by a certain set of variables, say X B . If the decision to choose which variable in the... ...ary theory to solve optimization problems. In general, 50 GAs start with a randomly generated population and progress to improve solutions by u... ... proposed GAOFRC uses floating-point representation for individuals. Instead of randomly generating a population, the initialization process generat... ... process to a much smaller space. In general, a GA initializes the population randomly. It works well when dealing with unconstrained optimization... ...trained optimization problems. However, for a constrained optimization problem, randomly 51 generated solutions may not be feasible. Since GAOF... ...es) feasible, we present an initialization module to initialize a population by randomly generating the individuals inside the feasible domain. Sin...

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...ect of the next theorem. Theorem 10: If a positive integer n is chosen at random, the odds are overwhelming that n is a pseudo-odd number of the fir... ... 4 * 5'-[ k-digit numbers containing no odd number. The probability of a random k-digit number containing all even numbers is then 4*5"-: _ .f --... ... the digits is odd. Theorem 11: If a positive even integer n is chosen at random, the odds are overwhelming that n is a pseudo-odd number of the sec... ...e digits is an odd number. It should be clear that the probability that a randomly chosen positive integer is pseudo- odd of the third kind is also o... ...nition is the following. Theorem 12: If a positive integer n is chosen at random, the probability that n is both a pseudo-odd number of the first ki... ...3: Input A positive integer n. n Output ~umber of twos = L SE2(i) i-I Variables two_toy ower is the current power of two in the division. Step I...

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...fingers of limbs to trees, were lost to spur growth, or torn asunder from random gusts by the god of chance and was she not the same? She stared dow... ...amily: it was something that one freely chose for oneself instead of the random gestation of the conflation of seminal and ovarian secretions, the p... ... of where she was at now, brushed over her consciousness--there were such random touches of ideas of volume and palpability, prompting her to leave t... ... wistful inclination for the perspicuity needed to write her disorganized random thoughts as diary epistles to the self. Within a diary she might wr... ...inhuman. For the most part, while for whatever underlying reasons, randomly exuding a few tears in the most inopportune times, she had been f... ...an not meant ownership and isolation of its object, for although the human variable was seven billion subtle considerations, for the more salient it ... ...impermanence, shore up existence when on a given day a thousand different variables in man's dependence on man could annihilate it, and thankfully ra...

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... the Funny Side of the Street … (Our Blunders, Bloopers, Typos, One-liners and Jokes) Random Quotes Links and Resources Abbreviations U... ...? Both have about a one in 3 million chance of becoming a human being." Return Random Quotes Search Sam's Web site: http://samva... ... "The typical narcissist has a short attention span and believes that the world is a random, menacing place. Catch as catch can. Carpe Diem (seiz... ... sources. There is no mathematical formula, which governs this. It depends on numerous variables. Usually, the relationship lasts until the narciss...

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...e avoided facing her directly, instead lingering over the parchment, adding variables to consider. Puffiness absent the day before spread under his ... ...h her knees drawn to her chest, her ripped cloth falling from her, exposing random swaths of sunburnt flesh. She stared past the precipice into a cl...

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...eir inclination whilest they are young is so uncertaine, their humours so variable, their promises so changing, their hopes so false, and their proc... ...t is not sufficient to barre us the libertie of contradicting him: yet at random to condemne all such like histories, seemeth to me a notable impude... ...r one charge which done, all the time of her conception she let him go at random, and that past, she gave him leave to begin againe: a notable and g... ...ath (except the least or most) but one course, and one byase. The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her est... ...tions in her trouble and uncertaintie. We reason rashly, and discourse at random, saith Timeus in Plato: for even as we, so have our discourses grea... ...ificers; and that every man might, at his pleasure, dispute of it, and at random speake his mind of the same. And it should be a great shame for us,... ...ll and divers armes, successes, and effects he judgeth of; of so many and variable motives, alterations, and counsels, that be relateth, he never ref... ...hereby we may learne that Fortune herself is no more divers, changing, and variable, than our reason, nor more blinde and inconsiderat. Things most u... ...d with the right strikes it away with his racket; in a piece he shutes at randome; and is well pleased with what his men tell him, be it high or wid...

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...st strike at it; O yes! it may; thou hast no eyes to see, But hatefully at random dost thou hit. Thy mark is feeble age, but thy false dart Mistak... ...now wind, now rain, Sighs dry her cheeks, tears make them wet again. 42 Variable passions throng her constant woe, As striving who should best beco...