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      <p ns="0" title="Mass project" snippet="...t frequencies of modulation.  Most subjects described the sound as droning &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that it entranced or hypnotized them.  This had an effect on most subjects &#10;Most subjects described the sound as droning &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that it entranced or hypnotized them as well.  This made sense since we kep&#10;" size="18663" wordcount="2797" timestamp="2007-10-02T17:03:59Z" />
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      <p ns="0" title="Siqi Mou Final Project Music 220a Fall 2008" snippet="I chose to end the piece with a sudden emission of all of my voices, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that the debate will go on and on and provoke evolutions in my mind.&#10;" size="2236" wordcount="378" timestamp="2008-12-12T21:33:32Z" />
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      <p ns="0" title="Hardware Lab 2" snippet="...ch into the circuit. The momentary switches in your kit are &amp;quot;normal open&amp;quot;, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that the circuit is interrupted in the idle state, when the switch is not p&#10;" size="13088" wordcount="2222" timestamp="2010-06-28T20:37:55Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="250a Microcontroller &amp; Sensors Lab" snippet="...ch into the circuit. The momentary switches in your kit are &amp;quot;normal open&amp;quot;, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that the circuit is interrupted in the idle state, when the switch is not p&#10;" size="13255" wordcount="2268" timestamp="2010-06-29T22:33:16Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="256a-fall-2009/shiweis-proposal" snippet="...int) The characters/pictures in the music language itself has some sort of &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; (perhaps when combined together) so there will be both visual and sonic mes&#10;...ave it easily recognizable by the software (so perhaps sacrificing picture &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;/aesthetics for ease of recognition.&#10;" size="4957" wordcount="782" timestamp="2009-11-10T12:38:29Z" />
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