The force-feeding process, called gavage, causes the animals liver to expand up to 10 times its size.

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Red Hat and other participants provide the equivalent of product management, collecting requirements and feeding them into the process.

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And so you could have someone seeing the boat come upriver, flee into the forest, perhaps not very used to butchering chimpanzees, so he gets cut in the process of feeding himself and family in the forest.

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The final step is just feeding back the results, making adjustments, and repeating the experiment until the entire process becomes as habitual and effortless as driving a car.

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In Donnelley's directory plant in Dwight, for example, new computers alert operators feeding 14 presses when a roll of paper is about to run out--a process they eyeballed until six months ago.

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The process must be iterative, with inputs coming from all of the agency plans and the outputs feeding into the budget and investment control processes.

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Moreover, using a stain in this way meant they could automate the process by attaching a camera to the microscope, taking photographs of all 384 wells, and feeding the images into a computer that had been programmed to measure the area of orange in a well and contrast that with the total area occupied by worms.

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What is certain is that only a few Romney hands know the details of the vice presidential selection process, making this year's iteration of the "veepstakes" -- a quadrennial feeding-frenzy of gossip and often ill-informed speculation -- one of the most secretive and leak-free endeavors in recent memory.

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