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in the Scots law of civil remedies, the remedy to have a writing annulled. In lower courts it can only be done OPE EXCEPTIONIS, by way of defence.

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Thus Fact 1.3 gives an affirmative answer to Problem 1.1 for G/H admitting such a reductive subgroup L.

Classification of irreducible symmetric spaces which admit standard compact Clifford--Klein forms

The reductive theme continues in the interior where the number of switches is kept to an absolute minimum, creating an elegant, clutter-free inner sanctum, the centrepiece of which is the new Touch Pro Duo infotainment system.

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Generally protecting groups have been employed when preparing primary amines via metal hydride reductive amination to control the overalkylation [3-9].

An Efficient Synthesis of Milnacipran Hydrochloride via Reductive Amination of Aldehyde

Night harvesting is part of the reductive winemaking style favored by modern vintners.

Four ways to make white wine

Central to the reductive narrative of May 1968 is its focus on the most radical of university students, thus ignoring the larger numbers and ultimately greater influence of reformist students and professors within the university system and on Paris, thereby missing how the events of May played out in the provinces and what circumstances triggered actions there.

Memories of May '68: France's Convenient Consensus

Unlike oxidation, which can't be reversed, wines that have reductive smells can be cleaned up - to a certain extent.

What to do when your fine wine has a fault; WINE

It seems that the era of reductive empiricism is ending, but what's emerging is not friendly to Christian orthodoxy and the service of Christ.

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In other words, Lewis (1986) promises a reductive analysis of modal sentences.

Modality, theoretical reductions, and the Lycan objection: a reply to Cameron

This generalization appears to be universal for all autotrophs, including those that use the reductive TCA cycle (Fuchs, 1989), those that employ the oxidative TCA cycle (Nelson and Cox, 2000), and those with the "horseshoe," or incomplete, TCA cycle (Ljungdahl, 1986; Ragsdale, 1991).

Analysis of the intermediary metabolism of a reductive chemoautotroph

Reductive amination is a fundamental chemistry process that dramatically expands the application of aldehydes and ketones by transforming them into amines.

Application of the accelerated Leuckart reaction to substituted benzaldehydes

Merrifield considers multi-disciplinary approaches and methodologies to consciousness, including first-person, phenomenological, and dynamical alternatives to reductive models.

Alexander Batthyany and Avshalom Elitzur, eds.: Mind and its Place in the World: Non-Reductionist Approaches to the Ontology of Consciousness

Mario Beauregard is one of the few scholars in neurology who is not a reductive materialist, meaning that he does not reduce all experiences to their underlying material construction and constituents.