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... possible . He lost his direct dependence on the availability of wild food materials . Greater supplies of food made it possible to provide for greater numbers of people in the agricul- tural regions , and these numbers soon exceeded the ...
... possible . He lost his direct dependence on the availability of wild food materials . Greater supplies of food made it possible to provide for greater numbers of people in the agricul- tural regions , and these numbers soon exceeded the ...
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... possible mode of operation . A gen- eral definition of adaptive control implies that an adap- tive system must be capable of performing the following functions : providing continuous information about the present state of the system or ...
... possible mode of operation . A gen- eral definition of adaptive control implies that an adap- tive system must be capable of performing the following functions : providing continuous information about the present state of the system or ...
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... possible to detect a forged art object from the diffraction patterns of the sam- ple or to trace an automobile from a streak of its paint left after an accident . By exploring the entire cones of scattering , it is possible to learn how ...
... possible to detect a forged art object from the diffraction patterns of the sam- ple or to trace an automobile from a streak of its paint left after an accident . By exploring the entire cones of scattering , it is possible to learn how ...
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