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overlapping
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Engim's VP of marketing, Scott Lindsay, explained to me last week how their research showed that the three so-called nonoverlapping channels (1, 6, and 11) in 802. 11b can actually impede performance.
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Engim's VP of marketing, Scott Lindsay, explained to me last week how their research showed that the three so-called nonoverlapping channels (1, 6, and 11) in 802. 11b can actually impede performance.
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In his 1999 book Rocks of Ages, he tried to broker a truce between science and religion by claiming they are two utterly distinct realms of understanding, what he called "nonoverlapping magisteria" (NOMA).
Steve Paulson: Spiritual Science, Rational Morality: Rethinking the Divide Between Science and Religion Steve Paulson 2010
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"There is a compelling industrial logic of combining operations and technology of nonoverlapping exchanges," he said, but added that regulators sent a clear message that transactions resulting in more than 90% market share were "highly suspect."
Nasdaq OMX Profit Slumps 40% Brendan Conway 2012
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He said they occupied "nonoverlapping magesteria," by which he meant different realms.
Clay Farris Naff: Open Your God Account Now, and Get a Free Gift! 2010
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In his 1999 book Rocks of Ages, he tried to broker a truce between science and religion by claiming they are two utterly distinct realms of understanding, what he called "nonoverlapping magisteria" NOMA.
Steve Paulson: Spiritual Science, Rational Morality: Rethinking the Divide Between Science and Religion Steve Paulson 2010
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In Finnish Lapland, based on a 7500-year Scots pine tree-ring record, Helama et al. [105] reported that the warmest nonoverlapping 100-year period in the record is AD 1501 to 1600, but AD 1601 was unusually cold.
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For instance, the idea that reason has nothing to say on questions like the existence of God does have some modern defenders, like the late Steven Jay Gould, who promoted the idea of science and faith as nonoverlapping magisteria.
MagRack: A Specter is Haunting the Weekly Standard, the Specter of Positivism 2006
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An appropriate subrelation of reduction is the simultaneous contraction of a set of nonoverlapping redexes, which is denoted by sc.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
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Whereas I agree with Professor Prothero in principle, I wonder if he is not making the same mistake as those who believe in nonoverlapping magisteria: despite what we think, they overlap.
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