transiency


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Synonyms for transiency

an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

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Future work is necessary to identify if the observed changes in perfusion correlate with altered metabolism but should also address the transiency of these effects.
This transiency did nothing to dampen a natural effervescence and optimism in the young girl, even as she sought roots and connectedness of her own.
Consequently, the schools also had a high student transiency rate, a significant number of non-English speaking students, and high teacher turnover rates.
Things must always be understood in their transiency, not speculatively carved out as snapshots, as a static picture of a dialectic that loses all meaning when fixed in time and space.
(2.) See generally Atlanta Volunteer Lawyer's Foundation et al., Presentation, Housing Instability and Student Transiency in the Thomasville Attendance Zone (June 2, 2016) [hereinafter Housing Instability] (slides on file with author).
Some of the crucial weaknesses were factors familiar to students of farm worker activism, including: the geographical diffuseness typical of agriculture, which made sector-wide organizing difficult once workers were employed on farms; the transiency of the workforce, creating a very short window for organization and a high level of workforce turnover year to year; and the lack of sustained involvement from established unions or political parties.
Periods of transiency can serve multiple functions in territorial social carnivores such as coyotes Canis latrans (Messier and Barrette 1982, Kamler and Gipson 2000).
The transiency of most HPV infections and the observed regression of certain cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) lesions to normal epithelium suggest a variability in local immune responses, which maybe caused by differences in host genomics [7].
Urban students are also more likely to face a variety of challenges in their lives outside of school--for example, neighborhood violence, family transiency, and financial issues--than suburban students.
There are numerous challenges to enacting cocreation, layered with issues of power, expectations, time, growth, and transiency of guests and volunteers.
Risk factors can be isolation, exposure to a parent's acute episodes, lack of accessible/affordable services, abuse and neglect, an unwell family member, education issues, transiency, multiple traumatic experiences, lack of friends, exposure to family violence.
"Unlike conventional electronics that are designed to last for extensive periods of time, a key and unique attribute of transient electronics is to operate over a typically short and well-defined period, and undergo fast and, ideally, complete self-deconstruction and vanish when transiency is triggered," the scientists wrote in their paper.
"Tulips" abounds in perfectly chosen metaphors--likening the flowers to paintbrushes and straws, commenting on the passage of time--and conveys Stallings's characteristic themes of wonder, contemplation, and transiency:
The Highway of Tears is racialized as a site of contentious Indigenous mobility, transiency and other high risk behaviours (Sethi 2007).