The voices enter as new ideas grow and fade and return again, each element moving in perfect time with the others.

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An essential element to moving forward in the field of personalized medicine is cloud computing technology.

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The LENR offers a slow-moving neutron to an element NASA researchers are working with nickel.

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But a small element is moving into the gold market as well.

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The result sometimes feels less like a machine than like an organic whole, a huge, thick-skulled, powerful animal moving with equal menace and grace through its element.

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It differs from its predecessor, the DP1x, because its lens now includes one "F" Low Dispersion glass element to correct aberrations, and its resolution has grown by moving from Foveon's 14.6-megapixel APS-C size image sensor to the 46-megapixel APS-C image sensor found in the company's flagship SLR, the Sigma SD1 Merrill.

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Staying afloat and moving around, we too have to become comfortable in this fluid and murky element.

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