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Consciousness, she tells us, is not embedded in single nerve cells (did anyone ever think it was?), nor in the whole brain, but in transient and fluctuating groups of cells (she calls them assemblies) firing in concert.

In another study with canine cancer cell lines (osteosarcoma, melanoma, glioma and mammary tumor), CD44 expression was associated with proliferation, but the authors concluded that the transient and fluctuating expression may limit its utility as a CSC marker [ 8].

Two peculiar phenomena, namely, long (perhaps super-persistent) chaotic transients, and fluctuating Lyapunov exponents, are observed; in the two such cases the LLE method fails to work.

There is no evidence nor are there suggestions in the literature that contagious yawning is transient and fluctuates over time.

It makes of them a transient and chronically fluctuating population with no readily discernable common enemy and no obvious place to coalesce.

Higher resistance values in both states can be obtained when ITO thin films with higher oxygen contents are used as top electrodes; such values are accompanied by larger set voltages and fluctuating transient currents during the reset process.

The entity of transient cholecystalgia, fluctuating in real time with volume status, was not initially considered.

The modelled BIIS is extremely dynamic, drained mainly by a number of transient but recurrent ice streams which dynamically switch and fluctuate in extent and intensity on a centennial time-scale.

We used the Profile of Mood States (POMS) (McNair et al. 1992) to assess transient, fluctuating mood states and to determine current mood state (including anxiety and depression) in our study groups.

Biogenic sedimentation also increased and fluctuated with the glacial episodes.

It then encountered water temperature anomalies, and fluctuated in strength.