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generation time

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generation time [‚jen·ə′rā·shən ‚tīm]
(microbiology)
The time interval required for a bacterial cell to divide or for the population to double.
(nucleonics)
The mean time required for a neutron arising from a fission to produce a new fission.


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The long generation times of trees and other plants have masked many of the ecological changes already under way in the patches of forest that remain, according to study co-author Don Waller, a professor in the Department of Botany and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison.
To estimate the generation time distribution for norovirus infections, we used observations of generation times from several large norovirus outbreaks in child daycare centers in Sweden during 1999 (25).
In another book, he also proposes a new category of fourth generation time management, which a difference in the matter of urgency and the importance of planning.
 
 
 
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