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emergence
[imur′jəns]
Etymology: L, emergere, to come forth
the point in the process of recovery from general anesthesia at which a return of spontaneous respiration, airway reflexes, and consciousness occurs. See also postanesthesia care.


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Their topics include emergent phenomena in neuroscience, frequency analysis and identification in atomic force microscopy, and economic sector identification in a set of stocks traded at the New York Exchange.
Emergent phenomena are common as are emergent traits, not reducible to basic components, interactions, or properties.
1 History The emergent phenomena are studied since the Greek antiquity and can be found in the writings of the Socrate periods with the notion of "the whole before the parts" or "the whole is more than all the parts".
 
 
 
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