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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although the atmosphere was stable overall, it was sensitive to perturbations which caused it to vacillate easily.
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But Atkins's introduction and chapters on operators, perturbation theory and group theory are enjoyable.
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Extensive, massive deletion of this kind would necessarily cause major perturbations to cellular function and energetic equilibrium.
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I am also happy to say that the perturbation maneuver has been successfully completed.
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In the strong field case the inter-electronic effects are treated as a perturbation .
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Similarly, major trends could be lost because of focusing on minor perturbations, or vice versa.
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Simulated annealing uses random perturbations to shake the parameter values out of a local optimum so that globally optimal values may be found.
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These asteroids may then be disturbed by gravitational perturbations by Jupiter into eccentric orbits, and then evolve into Earth-crossing orbits.