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People do not view numbers_____________: one's response to the number 9, for example, is conditioned by a mixture of both cultural and psychological factors.
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Even though some governments are now expressing alarm over their nations'_____________ birth rates, the planetary threat of human overpopulation has not ceased to concern many scientists and environmentalists.
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Egler's prediction in 1947 that the introduction of mangrove trees to the Hawaiian lslands would cause sweeping ecological change was_____________: extensive mangrove forests have come to displace many preexisting plant communities.
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Whereas classic compromises express an underlying and continuing (i)_____________of values, so that the disagreements among the parties are embodied in the compromise itself, consensual compromises are based on an underiying (ii)_____________ of values.
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Climate science journals are often too hermetic for even the most (i)_____________ layperson. The gravity of the issues discussed requires that we (ii)_____________ such (iii)_____________: we need publications that engage the broader public in discussions of how we interact with the natural world.
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Given how readily newspapers and various collectibles can accumulate, it's not much of a stretch to imagine being victims of our possessions, _____________ things we' re unable to sort out and discard.
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History is about recognizing continuities and therefore the historian must (i)_____________ stories that rope together the disparate worlds of past and present. But it is also true that honest history arises from a sense of (ii)_____________. lt is the experience of discontinuity that alerts us to the(iii)_____________ of the past and sets us looking for narratives to capture that unfamiliar entity.
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For decades, debates about the potential benefits of seafloor mining in ocean deeps were _____________, because mining at depths greater than 1,000 meters was considered technologically impossible.
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Hedonic hunger, or the urge to eat for pleasure, applies even when we are full. When food is (i)_____________, hedonic hunger comes in handy, so we can stock up on calories for the hard times ahead. But in a world of(ii)_____________, the same impulse makes us gain weight.
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The literary critic' s first book, coming after a long period of reviewing poetry in magazines, is the author's chance to(i)_____________ positions previously (ii)_____________somewhat confusingly, and show how they(iii)_____________, if in fact they do.
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Land near Bangladesh's coastal rivers is _____________: temporary islands, or chars, form in the main rivers as sediments are deposited and then disappear during floods.
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In his self-portraits Rembrandt is notably _____________ the details of his own physiognomy, with the color of his eyes, the shape of his nose never seeming to be the same from one picture to the next.
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Until the l960s, predictions ofthe effect of winds on the ocean waves were_____________, and forecasts of wave heights during stoms were consequently unreliable.
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The fierce drought that is gripping the area—and imminent rationing and steep water price increases—is _____________the area's deep economic divide, as wealthy communities guzzle water while poorer commnities nearby conserve by necessity.
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The play is undeniably cerebral - its plot turns on the interpretation of quantum mechanics.but critics have found this_____________ exhilarating, and the play does not wear its ideas too heavily.
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The figure shows a normal distribution with mean m and standard deviation d, including approximate percents of the distribution corresponding to the six regions shown.
The discrete random variable V is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. If 10,200 of the values of V are between 500 and 600, what is the best estimate of the number of values of V that are less than 400?
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If the responses summarized in the table represent an 80 percent return from the total number of departments receiving the survey questionnaire, how many departments received the survey questionnaire?
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If a department uses exactly 2 of the types of software, how many different pairs are possible?
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