Or is it the excitation of the senses that forms the preamble for the box spring bustle?

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The third pleasure excitation of the mu-opioid receptors, if you like is that the Mazda3 drives so dead sweet.

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Many of them are breathtakingly direct, but what the bluntness supports, often, is irony rather than excitation.

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They believe one of the shortcomings of previous stimulation approaches was that they produced a mix of both excitation and inhibition.

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For another, the artificial fireballs seem to be glowing because of the excitation of the atoms within the vaporised material rather than because of oxidation.

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Using a conductive capacitor that is integrated as part of the pen, it connects to an electromagnetic field generated by an excitation coil in the digitizer.

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The DuoSense software identifies the position of the Pencil and the pressure level, removing the need for an excitation coil within the DuoSense digitizer and can be used either as an integral part of the solution or as an optional after-market accessory, enabling OEMs to offer system upgrades, making the Digital Pencil ideal for the consumer market.

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