Mercier's resort to uchronia, on the other hand, initiates a new paradigm for utopian literature not only by setting action in a specific future chronologically connected to our past and present but even more crucially by characterizing that future as one belonging to progress and thus linked causally if not immediately to the reader's time.

The lasers were aligned using Flow-CheckTM (10 μm) and Flow-SetTM (3 μm) fluorospheres (Beckman Coulter, Inc.).

In some special cases, however, the number of surjections A→B can be identified.

Perelman receives a government subsidy called yield maintenance—totaling about $406 million to date—to make him whole for carrying money-losing assets in the thrift.