• With the second system acting almost like a co-pilot, watching the first system in real-time so that if anything were to happen the co-pilot could immediately take over.

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  • The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).

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  • He says the Federal Reserve Board, acting as arbiter of the bank settlement system, should outlaw no-surcharge rules.

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  • ResultSource, acting on behalf of the UCLA Health System, purchased copies of the book, the health system said.

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  • Technical tinkering, such as changing the formulation of a drug from a fast-acting pill to a slow-release system, is a common tactic.

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  • In contrast, systems that simply combine structural elements with power and energy devices, such that each set of materials are acting independently, provide no advantages in system efficiency.

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  • If you remove the morality system, the player is now acting with the same incomplete information as the character, which is a more compelling experience.

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  • Acting as a messenger between the central nervous system and the major organs, the vagus nerve slows the heart rate (through the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine), calms the immune response (by controlling the release of proteins called cytokines), and communicates with the muscles that control respiration and digestion.

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  • The government's Social Justice: Transforming Lives report promises to reverse the "couple penalty in the welfare system" and provide relationship support "acting early to keep families together".

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  • But you fail to mention the most important one of all: that a central bank of any country which has only variable access to international capital markets may have a problem in acting as a lender of last resort to its banking system.

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  • In addition, Mr. Abdulmutallab's cash purchase of a round-trip ticket didn't trigger any secondary screening, calling into question the efficacy of the system that is supposed to spot passengers who are acting suspiciously and may be threats.

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  • By acting as a channel through which savings can finance investment, the financial system helps to spur growth.

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  • The cartridge system is not very useful for the patients who have to mix immediate and long-acting insulins at a dose.

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  • Kuo Chen-yuan, then the acting director of the university's computer center and the designer of its computerized examination grading and scoring system.

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  • If a million people are acting in a million small ways, the question of scalability is potentially irrelevant, as long as the system improves.

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  • However, the emerging pattern is something akin to the Hollywood studio system, with the big companies still responsible for some of their own creative output, but acting mainly as banker-distributors for smaller companies' ideas.

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  • The system could be run for profit by the private sector, with the government, in effect, acting only as an insurer of last resort.

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