They were commonly used for trade, and could contain information about the origin or quantity of goods.
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In the 1500s, it became more commonly used for harvesting crops and remained the most popular tool for centuries.
Engraved cards are more commonly used for formal weddings, while letterpress is used for more casual events, says James Hirschfeld.
Over the last century, stocks of large fish commonly used for food have plummeted 80-90%, according to some estimates.
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CAPTCHAs are commonly used for user registration, contact forms, or failed logins.
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An arrangement of straps and fasteners, the harness is most commonly used for attaching animals to a cart or any other load.
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It could establish RAD firmly as the agent of choice for those who have failed Pfizer 's Sutent, the drug mostly commonly used for initial kidney cancer therapy.
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Receiving the signal is LG's prototype receiver built around the LG2161 demodulator chip and LG-exclusive 3D formatting circuitry that combines the side-by-side left and right images for seamless viewing without the need for 3D eyewear commonly used for 3D TVs.
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Sentiment analysis is a commonly used tool for measuring what people are saying about a particular company or brand, but it has issues.
Indeed, morning and evening, the Star Ferry is a genuinely useful and commonly used way for local people to hop from island to mainland and back again.
This approach does not apply to animals created with older, cruder technologies commonly used, for example, for the genetic improvement of fowl, pigs and cows.
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Nanotechnology techniques such as self-assembling promise researchers an intriguing alternative to continuing to refine the most commonly used technique for building transistors on silicon computer chips, namely, optical lithography.
The new system which will underlie both consumer-focused iterations of Windows 8, simply dubbed v4, slims down the 768MB of disk space previously required on Vista for a significantly lighter 184MB (an average) footprint in Windows 8 and adds greater in-box support for more commonly used, contemporary printers -- specifically for Windows RT.
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He said yellowcake uranium is a commonly traded commodity used for nuclear power generation.
The most commonly used exemption (for withholding information) was "personal information", followed by "commercial interests" and "health and safety".
Both kinds of projector rely on technology borrowed from smaller projectors that are commonly used in, for instance, corporate presentations.
They compared the results from this with a commonly used risk score for cardiovascular disease of participants now in their early 40s.
He said the digital technique was more commonly used in architecture than for art installations.
The result, according to a 2009 analysis by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, is that prices paid by the VA for the 10 most commonly used drugs are 48 percent lower than those paid by Medicare for Part D patients.
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The coating for the Eden Foods canned products is a solvent-based technology that is commonly used in 3-part cans for mild foods, such as beans.
The Seagate Desktop SSHD features up to 2TB of massive capacity and 8GB of NAND Flash making it ideal for accelerating the most commonly used PC applications and delivering extreme desktop performance with all the storage capacity needed for any computing scenario.
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They searched for the most commonly used characters in a cipher alphabet and matched them with the most frequently used letters in the real alphabet.
Although acetaminophen is one of the most commonly used drugs in the United States for treating pain and fever, overdoses of acetaminophen have been linked to 56, 000 emergency room visits, 26, 000 hospitalizations and 458 deaths during the 1990s, according to the FDA, citing one study.
Tri-Amping - A technique commonly used in large-scale sound amplification for concerts, Tri-amping is the practice of connecting three audio amplifiers to a loudspeaker unit: one to power the bass driver (woofer), one to power the mid-range and the third to power the treble driver (tweeter).
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Third, it is difficult for Chinese companies to keep pace with the auction process for selling companies which is commonly used by Western investment bankers.
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