His bursts of creative work were followed by periods of exhaustion, and these were often prolonged by pecuniary worry and under-nourishment.
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Specifically, pregnant monkeys were placed in cages in a darkened room and exposed to unpredictable loud bursts of noise.
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In the case of autism, binding-related gamma bursting looks very similar to that in controls, apart from not being modulated by face inversion.
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The laser builds up energy at a bounded rate and operation in this manner allows for large bursts of energy.
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Of the monolingual speakers, one male and two female speakers produced 25, 16.7 and 45.4% of the tokens without clear bursts.
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During this phase, bursts of violence were frequent in the city.
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If only bursting responses were decoded, for instance, this would be likely to bias coding in the direction of localism.
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The increase in bursting seemed to continue for up to twelve hours after training.
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Neurons summate inputs and fire in bursts, other neurons react with longer latencies, the sensory signal is repeatedly reorganized, and the activity eventually dissipates.
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The fluctuations grow exponentially at first and develop into turbulence without being accompanied by abrupt bursts or turbulent spots.
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Why are long periods of political stability punctuated by sudden bursts of intense instability?
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Such bursts are noted in the 1830s, the 1910s and the 1940s but not, rather surprisingly, in the 1980s.
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The flow characteristics as well as the bursting behaviour were studied in detail.
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The foster brother bursts in and throws a net that captures all the courtiers.
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The production of intense radiation bursts, by the electron beam during the reflection process, was also demonstrated.
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burst fire
This was intended to dramatically increase the accuracy of burst fire, but the system never truly worked, and was later dropped.
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burst of activity
There are some early prescriptions and musings, but the advent of sound on film occasioned the firstburstofactivityin the 1930s.
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burst of energy
First, this statistical work brings home the importance of this extraordinaryburstofenergyand excitement in the early 1560s.
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