At this step some of the things to consider are process design for product identification, valuation, classification and separation and the supporting technology system implementation to have an optimal separation approach.

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Whether the element is uranium or carbon, however, the technology of such separation is basically the same.

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And one driver of that trend, says Gregory Guldner, director of the Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships, is the perception that technology reduces the emotional separation of distance.

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Am I no longer entitled to some separation between who I am when I'm talking about technology rather than when I'm talking about my political beliefs, should I choose to separate those things?

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So researchers developed a technology that replicates the natural skin of an apple, to provide separation from the dry cookie.

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