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Man is merely a high-order animal, and his survival, his progress toward a higher state, is dependent upon his adaptability.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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This is true of any high-order heavily coupled non-linear system.
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With an emphasis on high-order thinking, CCSS lends itself to classes that readily offer sufficient teacher-student interaction.
Elizabeth Hampton: Spending Cuts: You Get What You Pay For Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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As Gillian Tett of the Financial Times later wrote, “Computing power and high-order mathematics were taking the business far from its traditional bounds, and this small group of brilliant minds was charting the outer reaches of cyberfinance.”
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Now the genetic modification of a high-order animal is being proposed.
Nick Joy: Why Genetically Modified Salmon Affects My Rights as a Citizen Nick Joy 2010
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With an emphasis on high-order thinking, CCSS lends itself to classes that readily offer sufficient teacher-student interaction.
Elizabeth Hampton: Spending Cuts: You Get What You Pay For Elizabeth Hampton 2011
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Now the genetic modification of a high-order animal is being proposed.
Nick Joy: Why Genetically Modified Salmon Affects My Rights as a Citizen Nick Joy 2010
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As Gillian Tett of the Financial Times later wrote, “Computing power and high-order mathematics were taking the business far from its traditional bounds, and this small group of brilliant minds was charting the outer reaches of cyberfinance.”
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Now the genetic modification of a high-order animal is being proposed.
Nick Joy: Why Genetically Modified Salmon Affects My Rights as a Citizen Nick Joy 2010
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Another is a long-duration Venus rover mission, which could be facilitated by offloading temperature-sensitive electronics, which provide high-order control functions, to the crew and computers aboard the orbiting IRHAX spacecraft.
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