The Great Pyramid could have functioned as a stellar observatory during its construction. |
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As the curtain rose on the stage, Evan's brain actually functioned the way he had wanted it to for so long. |
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So far, Internet standards have functioned as a common resource, accessible to and modifiable by all users. |
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The tidy inventory of his property functioned as a dual hit list and memorial roster when mounted on a large wall at the emporium's entrance. |
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A signet ring functioned as a royal signature, a guarantee of the full payment of everything the king had promised. |
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Phonology was of linguistic interest only to the extent that sound patterns functioned as signifiers. |
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Although conditions were hard the system was well established and functioned for years. |
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First, Eurysaces' declaration may have functioned as a means of protecting his funerary monument. |
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All the formal uniface blades functioned as knives and were used to cut both meat and bone. |
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Before the eighteenth century, the former inspired quests for ecclesiastic union, while the latter functioned in the civil sphere. |
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The scrapers seem to have functioned primarily as utilitarian items rather than prestige items. |
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After the coup, he ran a newspaper stand, which functioned as a letter drop for the clandestine Communist Party. |
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The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning and pretension. |
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An engineer to the core, George once showed me in excruciating detail exactly how his colostomy bag functioned. |
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A total of 10 counters functioned to issue tickets and a strict vigil was maintained to stop the visitors from carrying polythene bags. |
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It is not clear how this joint functioned with the pectoral girdle still anchored to the dermal skull. |
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The infolded grooves served to produce a strong tooth attachment, and it is unlikely that they functioned in venom conduction. |
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This variety only appears chaotic if we assume that Roxbury makers functioned as traditional clockmakers. |
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This supply system functioned well throughout the Civil War and was instrumental in its successful accomplishment. |
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All the bombs with the sensing switch extenders released and functioned as advertised. |
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The excavators interpret the site as having functioned in a Cahokia-centric trading network. |
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Its bank notes, which functioned much like today's paper currency, acted as legal tender in payment of U.S. debts. |
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The monastery functioned as a leprosarium and Juliana served there as a canoness until ousted during a conflict with townspeople. |
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The harsh reality is not readily apparent because the market has seemingly functioned flawlessly throughout the boom. |
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He said the system had functioned well in the past and did not serve any specific group. |
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In former times local headmen functioned as war chiefs, but paramount chiefs over various local communities were absent. |
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What I didn't know then was that this form of prejudice functioned as a way to express the values I had grown up with. |
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Boniface was also prominent in Frankish church reform and functioned as representative of the pope to the Franks. |
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Bugbear, another blended threat, spread through network shares but also logged keystrokes and functioned as a back door. |
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The aortic and mitral valves functioned normally, and the left atrial size was normal. |
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As a result, they knew how the plant functioned and understood that some releases functioned as a safety valve. |
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The radio functioned well enough, if you were satisfied with AM reception only, but I was a fanatical FM listener. |
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Between them stood impressive statues of giants, the telamones, which functioned as load-bearing supports for the structure. |
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No button and keyboard can be found and all the operations can be functioned by vocal message. |
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For the Chinese, both the ideographic script and pictorial representation functioned as graphic signs that expressed meaning. |
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The association had humble beginnings and initially, functioned from the steps of the stadium. |
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Politically, they functioned as police states, with an absence of elementary democratic rights. |
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In this theory, the forerunners of wings were thoracic, highly tracheate gills that functioned as stabilizers during swimming. |
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After exhaustive testing they found that a long track in the circuit board had functioned as the antenna. |
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The Byzantine society functioned very successfully economically for a thousand years using the pure bezant gold coin. |
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Drawings that functioned as studies for individual characters in the ensembles help flesh out sub-themes of the larger, busier compositions. |
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With party members dominating administrative bodies, which included the people's commissariats at the top, those bodies functioned as executors of party policy. |
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But since Deja had bumped along with a skeleton staff for several months, and functioned fine, we wondered if this would really have hurt Google financially. |
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It was a long time ago, back when Congress functioned, and bipartisanship was real. |
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In his smaller sculptural assemblages, narrative has always functioned like another found object, dense with the particular history of its source and rich with texture. |
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These tools may have functioned as hafted knives or scrapers. |
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Other blade tools, such as denticulates and spokeshaves, have multiple, deep, retouched notches and probably functioned as shredders or, possibly, as whittling implements. |
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The spine wall at this location thus functioned as a retaining wall, allowing the floors of the rooms to extend 1.50 m beyond the limits of the bedrock shelf. |
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It operated its own studio and laboratories, functioned more efficiently. |
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Graham's book never comes close to acknowledging that her newspaper mainly functioned as a helpmate to the war-makers in the White House, State Department and Pentagon. |
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The site functioned on a hidden area of the Internet, or the Dark Web, and only accepted payment in the form of bitcoins, the often hard-to-trace digital currency. |
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Causation and convergence were still operative, but they functioned more subtly, and the audience was no longer enthralled in hypothesis building. |
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The board, which previously was under the control of the Ministry of Economic Reforms, has functioned as a slush fund for dispensing political favours. |
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It never functioned as a hotel again and today is inhabited by more than 400 people. |
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Beth ran her through the basics, softly explaining how the gun functioned. |
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More recent research on this topic proffered the notion that certain mortuary districts, composed of mounds or cemeteries, functioned as trade fair locations. |
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From September 5, 1774 to March 1, 1781, the Continental Congress functioned as the provisional government of the United States. |
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In addition, flint becomes brittle at low temperatures and may not have functioned as a tool. |
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From this time the kingdom of England, as well as its successor state the United Kingdom, functioned in effect as a constitutional monarchy. |
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The standard edict thus functioned like a comprehensive law code, even though it did not formally have the force of law. |
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Instead, Parliament functioned as a temporary advisory committee and was summoned only if and when the monarch saw fit. |
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The National Constituent Assembly functioned not only as a legislature, but also as a body to draft a new constitution. |
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In the Middle Ages these also functioned as warehouses and places of business, as well as homes. |
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Shanty songs functioned to economize labor in what had then become larger vessels having smaller crews and operating on stricter schedules. |
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Not only were such monasteries an expression of David's undoubted piety, but they also functioned to transform Scottish society. |
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The former was established in 1921, and the state continues to this day, but the latter never functioned. |
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To all intents and purposes the party functioned as the Northern Ireland branch of the Conservative Party. |
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Mea'ole died the next year, after which the country functioned as a monarchy until the death of Tanumafili and a republic thereafter. |
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Some even argue that modernism in literature and art functioned to sustain an elite culture which excluded the majority of the population. |
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It was his intention to show that he need not fill a starring role, and functioned well as a member of an ensemble. |
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By this time, American advertising had adopted many elements and inflections of modern art and functioned at a very sophisticated level. |
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In 1716, the Bani Utubs settled in Kuwait, which at this time was inhabited by a few fishermen and primarily functioned as a fishing village. |
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In the late 18th century, Kuwait partly functioned as a haven for Basra's merchants, who were fleeing Ottoman government persecution. |
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It is likely that since the 11th century the bishopric of St Andrews functioned as a de facto archbishopric. |
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From 1710 to 1837 the library functioned as a legal deposit library, and as a result has an extensive collection of 18th century literature. |
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Unfortunately, Matthew's incipit page is severely worn, appearing to have functioned as the manuscript's front cover for a number of years. |
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Medieval Brighthelmston had a town hall, although it was called the Townhouse and functioned more like a market hall. |
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Patrician did not rule the north directly but set up a client province there, which functioned independently. |
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In Africa, the Mali Empire functioned as both a constitutional and elective monarchy. |
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This site functioned for a period as a meeting place for the Schutzstaffel. |
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In addition, soldiers of the Mongol army functioned independently of supply lines, considerably speeding up army movement. |
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The captaincies created there functioned under a centralized administration in Salvador which reported directly to the Crown in Lisbon. |
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East Asia trading primarily functioned on a silver standard due to Ming China's use of silver ingots as a medium of exchange. |
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In 1521, year of the Conquest, Charles was attending to matters in his German domains and Bishop Adrian of Utrecht functioned as regent in Spain. |
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A Real Audiencia was a judicial district that functioned as an appeals court. |
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During the Muromachi period, Tanegashima functioned as a relay station of one of the main routes of Chinese trade that connected Sakai to Ningbo. |
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The Caribbean basin functioned as a key geographic focal point for advancing Spanish imperialism. |
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Until 1969, Quebec was the only officially bilingual province in Canada and most public institutions functioned in both languages. |
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The hymn functioned both as a liturgical setting of the Lord's Prayer and as a means of examining candidates on specific catechism questions. |
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The work functioned as an official formulary of the reformed Anglican faith in England. |
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What he really means is that the psychics' powers under test functioned more like a carpet bomb than a precision missile. |
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Although the laying workers functioned in a queenlike manner, they were unable to suppress ovarian development as effectively as the queen. |
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They mainly functioned as local government authorities at the county level. |
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During World War I the Ruhrgebiet functioned as Germany's central weapon factory. |
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They functioned as priests and accepted sacrifices from farmers which were again used to pay soldiers, creating a hird. |
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During the medieval period Hornsea was a market town, and also functioned as a fishing town and port. |
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There is limited evidence on the extent to which Hornsea functioned as a port. |
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Hornsea Bridge railway station was built short of the Hornsea Town terminus, and functioned as a goods station as well as a passenger station. |
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For a while I functioned pretty well as an alcoholic and drug addict. |
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The successful machine politician also made sure that the city, or his piece of it, functioned well enough so that voters saw tangible results. |
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In the Middle Ages, the Sancta Sanctorum served as the pope's private chapel and often functioned as a staging point for the stational liturgy. |
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However, the district court, Collectorate and other State Government offices were opened and functioned normally. |
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Historical studies showed that well into the second millennium the church had functioned in a more synodal or collegial fashion. |
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The transplanted uteri reportedly survived and functioned for several months in the pigs, producing normal menstrual cycles. |
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Reproductive structures of this species produce digitate ten-lobed seed scales, which likely functioned as helicopter-like diaspora. |
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The 455 Total Ti came with two keys for the hammer-mounted integral gunlock, which functioned perfectly. |
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Rather than enhancing the colors, the glass likely functioned as a desiccant, or drying agent, Spring says. |
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One of the earliest is a female pelvic bone embedded with fox teeth that must have functioned as an ornament and an idiophone, as did pierced dentalia shells. |
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When implanted into diabetic mice, the cell clusters functioned like normal pancreata, producing insulin and other hormones required to maintain healthy blood sugar levels. |
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Central to the pro-trade argument was the dubious claim that narcotine, the active agent in opium, functioned as a preventive and curative treatment for malaria. |
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Throughout the past one thousand years of woodworking, joinery methods have functioned as a common thread, from mortise and tenon to dovetails, rabbets and tongue and groove. |
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The provincial administration was manned more heavily by native officials, whose cadre functioned from the patwari to tahsildar level and to secretariat roles. |
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Mesopotamian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters functioned successfully over a time span longer than the Roman alphabet, for all their evident complexity. |
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Unlike Alex, Doug functioned very well in the debates, as willing as the next deep thinker to go tripping out onto lofty constructions of ideology and rhetoric. |
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It is similarly unknown how well, if at all, the Oruktor functioned as a steamboat, and Evans's claims on this point vary significantly over the years. |
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But both kinds of elder functioned as shepherds of the congregations. |
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In 1940, the club built there a preventorial pavilion for children, which functioned until 1946, when it was discontinued and the building used as quarters for the staff. |
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The rites ultimately functioned to reinforce social order, insofar as they allowed those tensions to be expressed without leading to actual rebellion. |
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Visby functioned as the leading centre in the Baltic before the Hansa. |
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The Lords of the Isles, of the MacDonald family, originally functioned as vassals of the Scottish, or Norwegian, kings who ruled the Western Isles. |
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The wieszcz functioned as spiritual leader to the suppressed people. |
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Painting on the pottery of Ancient Greece and ceramics gives a particularly informative glimpse into the way society in Ancient Greece functioned. |
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Tom Crumbie died on 13 March 1928, he was described as the cog around which the club functioned and contemporary reports say he epitomised the club. |
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Private subscription libraries functioned in much the same manner as commercial subscription libraries, though they varied in many important ways. |
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The road functioned as a towpath, making the Danube navigable. |
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The language functioned as a community language in Cornwall until a language shift to the English language was completed during the late 18th century. |
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During this interval the agency functioned in a de facto fashion. |
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It functioned as a court of first instance for the trials of peers, for impeachment cases, and as a court of last resort within the United Kingdom. |
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Initially, Mobile and then Biloxi functioned as the capital of the colony. |
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Since 1971, the government has functioned under the seventh Constitution of Virginia, which provides for a strong legislature and a unified judicial system. |
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Our experiments re-confirmed that mosses and lichens functioned better than PCs by decreasing soil buck density, increasing water holding capacity and infiltrability. |
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