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botanical plant nameauthor abbreviation forbotanist William Aiton (1731-1793).
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At three of the award-winning schools — Phoebe Hearst Elementary, Winston Education Campus and Aiton Elementary — 85% or more of classrooms were identified as having high erasure rates in 2008.
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Wakefield Trinity have continued Super League's most energetic and cosmopolitan off-season signing spree by concluding a two-year deal with Paul Aiton, a hooker who represented Papua New Guinea in the 2010 Four Nations series, in addition to recruiting the former Grand Final and Challenge Cup winner Richie Mathers on a season's loan from Castleford.
Wakefield Trinity confirm signings of Paul Aiton and Richie Mathers 2011
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At three of the award-winning schools — Phoebe Hearst Elementary, Winston Education Campus and Aiton Elementary — 85% or more of classrooms were identified as having high erasure rates in 2008.
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Aiton, a 26-year-old who has captained the Kumuls on several occasions, will link up with his former Cronulla team-mates Tim Smith and Dean Collis, two more of the new arrivals at Belle Vue.
Wakefield Trinity confirm signings of Paul Aiton and Richie Mathers 2011
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Newtonian theory; and second, many attempts by Cartesian natural philosophers to test Descartes 'various ideas on the dynamics of circularly moving particles (e.g., by using large spinning barrels filled with small particles) did not meet the predictions advanced in the Principles (see Aiton 1972).
Descartes' Physics Slowik, Edward 2009
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In a manuscript revision of his “Essay on the causes of celestial motions” Leibniz even adopted Newtonian phrasing: “What follows is not based on hypotheses but is deduced from phenomena by the laws of motion” [Aiton, 1972, 132].
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007
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The soft woods are: the Cedar, the Cypress, the Black Spruce, or Fir (Pinus nigra, Aiton); the Pinus strobus (growing in the mountains), and the Spruce tree of our low country swamps, which might well supply the place of our Northern pine.
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Aiton, in his "Essay on Moss [or Peat] Earth," quotes from the published country reports of the Board of Agriculture, the estimated amount of "waste lands" in Scotland alone, to be 14,000,000 of acres.
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Aiton subsequently speaks more fully of the understood character of this "flow moss," as being worthless -- and of the then but recent improvements thereof -- though, (by using the costly applications which I before referred to,) he deemed even this worst of peat soil susceptible of profitable improvement and culture.
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So far Aiton referred to moss (or peat) land generally, including in these remarks all the firmer and better qualities -- which he distinguishes as "hill-moss" and "bent-moss," from the worst kind, or "flow-moss," which seems, (of the three kinds,) to agree most nearly with the "sponge" soil of our juniper swamp, or other peat whereon not even juniper trees can now live.
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