Institutes
1 Britishplural noun
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an introduction to legal study in ancient Rome, compiled by order of Justinian and divided into four books forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis
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short for Institutes of the Christian Religion , the book by Calvin, completed in 1536 and constituting the basic statement of the Reformed faith, that repudiates papal authority and postulates the doctrines of justification by faith alone and predestination
plural noun
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“Many academics and research institutes technically violate the terms of service in a strict interpretation,” Lambert said.
From MarketWatch
"Fifty million years is far greater than the expected age for some current surface ice deposits on Mars, which are often less than two million years old, meaning any organic life present within the ice would be preserved," said co author Christopher House, professor of geosciences, affiliate of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Earth and Environment Systems Institute, and director of the Penn State Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Science and Technology.
From Science Daily
The shared services model could extend beyond business operations and centralize professional development or allow providers to share curriculum and materials, said Amanda Danks and Nathan Burroughs, senior and principal researchers at the American Institutes for Research who have studied the model.
From Los Angeles Times
Those entities include several Mitsubishi subsidiaries, as well as institutes including the National Defense Academy of Japan and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
The research was conducted as part of a project organized by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Biomarkers Consortium, a public private partnership that includes WashU Medicine.
From Science Daily
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