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... active prey as herring , trapping the victims by swimming over then settling upon them , a practice facilitated by the skates ' habit of hunting at night . Electric rays ( Torpedinidae ) are characteristically bot- tom fishes of ...
... active prey as herring , trapping the victims by swimming over then settling upon them , a practice facilitated by the skates ' habit of hunting at night . Electric rays ( Torpedinidae ) are characteristically bot- tom fishes of ...
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... Active Network Analysis and Synthesis ( 1967 ) ; and R.W. NEWCOMB , Active Integrated Circuit Synthesis ( 1968 ) . ( J.R.A./S.W.M . ) Semiconductors and Insulators , Theory of One of the distinguishing characteristics used to differen ...
... Active Network Analysis and Synthesis ( 1967 ) ; and R.W. NEWCOMB , Active Integrated Circuit Synthesis ( 1968 ) . ( J.R.A./S.W.M . ) Semiconductors and Insulators , Theory of One of the distinguishing characteristics used to differen ...
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... active nature , defies description as a passive state . As is noted below , REM sleep can be eliminated in experimental animals by the surgical destruction of a group of nerve cells in the pons , the active function of which appears to ...
... active nature , defies description as a passive state . As is noted below , REM sleep can be eliminated in experimental animals by the surgical destruction of a group of nerve cells in the pons , the active function of which appears to ...
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