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environment. External Systems Affecting the Family Research paradigms can be distinguished in terms of three different environmental systems that can serve as sources of external influence on the family. Mesosystem models. Although the family is the principal context in which human development takes place

The Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Araromi Shale formation in the Nigeria sector of the Dahomey basin has been investigated for its petroleum generation potential. From three exploratory wells, Araromi, Bode Ashe and Gbekebo in the eastern end (west of Niger Delta), source rock potential has been

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are recorded at discrete intervals. The principal source of rejection of existing models is the strong nonlinearity of the drift. Around its mean, where the drift is essentially zero, the spot rate behaves like a random walk. The drift then mean-reverts strongly when far away from the mean. The volatility

in one of three ways: A large set of images of the object under different lighting conditions is acquired, and principal component analysis (PCA) is used to estimate a subspace. Alternatively, synthetic images are rendered from a 3D model (perhaps reconstructed from images) under point sources, and again

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