If you've read The Rum Diary, you'll notice that certain characters and events have been amalgamated, erased or enlarged, often cleverly and wisely, but that Robinson's gentler tone is slightly at odds with Thompson's marvellously splenetic and bilious prose.
Watching the debate, supporters and critics of the war in Iraq both tend to amalgamate two different events: The invasion and the occupation.
We then amalgamate all firing events between times (t_{i}) and (t_{i+1}) and find the minimum firing time, (t^), of this list.
Of these filaments, we tracked the following: time of birth, time of death, time of bifurcation, time of amalgamation, lifespan, filament from which a filament bifurcated, filament into which a filament amalgamated, and ultimate filament to which a filament could be traced back through the bifurcation events (49).
To avoid loss of information or choices related to results from trials with multiple intervention arms (for example, different doses of the drug), the Cochrane handbook recommends that for dichotomous outcomes, all relevant treatment arms can be amalgamated into one group by adding together the sample sizes and numbers of people with events.
Proust changed a great deal — invented or amalgamated places (like the "Combray" of the book's opening section), people (like the jealously held Albertine) and events (like the dipping of a madeleine in tea, presumably).
BAIT amalgamates all called SCE events across libraries to identify any locations that have multiple SCE events associated with them.
Tanganyikans want to be amalgamated.
Pros: Cheap, and easily amalgamated into existing algorithms.
Mix until all the ingredients are evenly amalgamated.
