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M.F. Dignac, V. Urbain, D. Rybacki, A. Bruchet, D. Snidaro, R Scribe, Chemical description of extracellular polymers implications on activated sludge floe structure, Water Sci. Technol. 38 (1998) 45-53. 

III. Moisture Determination in Propellants and Explosives by Karl Fischer Method 101.5 Pre> scribed by MIL-STD-286B (1 Dec 1967). Detailed description of Fischer method as applied to various substances is given in the following works ... 

Before leaving the discussion of possible mechanisms, it should be pointed out that they may not be as distinctly separated in concept as it may have appeared in their individual descriptions. The distinction between SnI and Sn2 in solvolysis reactions is blurred by the probability of varying degrees of nucleophilic solvent participation in the Sn Itransition state [72]. Within Sn2 (eq. 2.8) there can be different extents of bond breaking and bond making in the transition state at one extreme, a loose transition state with a nearly broken bond to L but little bond making to Nu could be de.scribed as Sivil-like [72], Second-order kinetics may also be expected if Nu reacts with an ion pair formed by rapid, reversible ionization of RL [73],... 

The scribe will enter the node description into the hazards analysis software. The start and stop points for the node should all be identified, as discussed above. Operations and maintenance experts will then provide some history and operating experience about it. Any relevant documentation to do with that node, such as equipment data sheets or MSDSs, should be put before the team at this time. 

In one particularly vivid interview, one miner de.scribed the ways that a new miner can be thrown by new piece of equipment if he does not hold tightly to the controls. As he spoke, his gestures illustrated the experience. For nearly a minute, he held tightly to an imaginary wheel, white knuckled—even after he had finished his spoken description of the event. 

If documents produced in the time of Shulgi or Shu-Sin were used by successive classes of trainee scribes to write these letters, all well and good. But they need not have been. It is not as actual history that we should see the letters, but history as understood by the writers of the letters - vague and confused perhaps, embellished if not often fabricated, and futile as sources of fact or social attitude. And as such, they are not entirely fictive. They give us a view of how the Mardu came to be (and where they came from) that is not inflected with the kind of vitriol, even simple negativity, that modern scholarship has all too long attributed to the entire sedentary population of Mesopotamia. Those kinds of descriptions come from a specific kind of text and those texts are not as straightforward as we like to think. 

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