quate


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quate

(kweɪt)
n
fortune; destiny
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He searched about in his mind for an ade- quate malediction for the indefinite cause, the thing upon which men turn the words of final blame.
The terminology follows the proposal of Cummig & Wood (2009) with the specific term gonocoxal apodeme proposed by Quate & Brown (2004).
Twisted aedeagi are present in several Psychodini taxa such as Trichopsychoda Tonnoir, Threticus Eaton and Psychoda Latreille, as well as in two species of Brunettiina (Wagner & Vaillant 1983) and in the currently unplaced taxa Saximormia Jezek and Bryopharsos Quate. A uniseriate distal row of tenacula is present in Psychodini and most Maruinini/Setomimini, but also in Brunettiina and in the Pericomaini genera Berdeniella Vaillant and Szaboiella Vaillant.
De las seis subfamilias que integran actualmente a la familia Psychodidae (Diptera) (moth flies), se considera a Bruchomyiinae como la mas primitiva o plesiomorfica, estando compuesta por tres generos, incluyendo Nemopalpus Macquart, 1838, Bruchomyia Alexander, 1920 y Eutonnoiria Alexander, 1940 (Quate & Alexander 2000, Curler & Jacobson 2012).
Quate, from Waterside, near Kirkintilloch, is suspended for nearly a month.
But I know that, unless the BBC and that young wife were in collusion to distort the truth, the award to sorely wounded soldiers is pitifully inade quate.
Quate of Stanford University, who coinvented the AFM in 1986.
And as you start expecting loss more, you come to see yourself as inherently flawed, made quate, not up to the task," Dr.
Platoon sergeant Stephen Quate, 34, from Belfast said: "The ground moves at night out here, but you get used to it fast.
Articles in Volume 22 Number 1 are: "Collaboration: Making a Difference" (Stephanie Quate); "Using Faculty Study Groups to Implement Innovations" (Barbara King-Shaver); "Goals and Issues: A Framework for Implementing Technology" (Jonathan Bush); and "A Student-Centered vs.
Calvin Quate, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, said: "I don't think he should be taken seriously.