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These steps are here termed transportational cyclic steps, in order to distinguish them from the purely erosional cyclic steps considered below.
The genetic analysis of these age-dependent phenotypes, termed growth trajectories, has long been of interest to students in different disciplines of biology and genetics.
Many recent studies have demonstrated that astrocytes release chemical transmitters in a process termed gliotransmission.
The halfperiod and the motion realized in it are termed half-step.
The ratio at which responding ceases is termed the breakpoint, and is routinely used to compare the reinforcing efficacy of different drugs or drug doses.
The resulting phenomenon - termed ' order through fluctuations ' - is a distinctly evolutionary one, complete with feedback loops that drive the system further from equilibrium.
The preliminary study also indicated that vesicle-like formations, termed bladders, were produced in all test organisms.
In the second chapter the mechanics of protein folding, termed self-assembly, are analysed in considerable detail, depending on rather complex three-dimensional geometry.
