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A period or level at which something is stabilized for a time, represented on a graph as a horizontal line.
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The plateau of the growth curve after log growth, during which cell number remains constant. New cells are produced at the same rate as older cells die.
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They are composed of caps of shingle, with great, more or less rounded boulders, sand and volcanic ashes, precisely of the same form as occurs on the Patagonian plateau.
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In pacemaker and other cardiac muscle cells, inward calcium currents determine shape and duration of the plateau phase, which in turn controls the strength and duration of contraction.
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Although growth is expected to plateau in industrialized countries, it is increasing in developing countries.
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It is during plateaus reached along this progression that cognitive structures are formed, attitudes toward the local world, the society viewable from within personal scope, ...
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For example, in drier savannas such as those on the Serengeti plains or Kenya's Laikipia plateau, the dominant grasses on well-drained soils are Rhodes grass and red oat grass; throughout the East African savannas, star grasses are dominant; ...
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If we add fresh culture medium to the container, exponential growth resumes until a new higher plateau is reached.
Evidently the growth rate (r) declines as the density of the population approaches a certain limiting value.
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Humans do not have a mating season , females are sexually receptive to the male at all times of the year. There are four stages in mating: arousal, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
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The plateau of the growth curve after log growth, during which cell number remains constant. New cells are produced at the same rate as older cells die. (See Growth phase.) Sticky end.
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