Performance — the performance gains of stored procedures are mainly achieved through reducing the number of messages sent between the client (often on a remote computer) and the database server.

性能——存储过程的性能提高主要来自于减少客户机(常常在远程计算机上)和数据库服务器之间发送的消息数量。

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Colour has a profound, though often subliminal, influence on our senses and moods.

颜色对我们的感觉和情绪有一种很深远的影响，尽管常常是潜意识的。

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When people are stressed or thinking hard about something, then they will often put on a "grumpy face" without even knowing what they are doing.

当人们感到有压力或正在努力思考某件事时，他们往往会摆出一副“暴躁的面孔”，而自己甚至意识不到。

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One such material is asphalt, a substance often placed on top of buildings and used to cover road surfaces.

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One way to think about it, if we want to use a classical analogy, which often helps to give us an idea of what's going on, is the spin of an electron, we can picture it rotating on its own axis.

如果我们用一个，经典的比喻来考虑它的话，这经常会帮助我们建立起一些概念，就是我们可以把电子的，自旋想象是它绕着轴自转。

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Often what you'll see is not a table based on this definition, but something that's called the Pauling definition of electronegativity, but it's exactly the same idea and the same trend as this more numerical way to think about what the meaning of electronegativity is.

通常你看到的表格一般都不是基于这种定义的，而是基于,鲍林定义的电负性，但在意义上是相同的，并且满足同样的周期性规律,当和这种这种更数值化地理解电负性的定义,作对比时。

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With Stageit artists set ticket prices (starting at 50 cents), often on a pay-what-you-can model.

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Staff analyse a customer's running gait, often on a treadmill and "diagnose" a pair of shoes that will avoid injury.

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In an age when personal philanthropy, often on a much larger scale, is all the rage, this tale is instructive.

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