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Partially positive in attitude etc.
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Jason seemed to have two completely different ways of belonging and gaining significance — a negative method with his mother and a semipositive method with his father.
Chief Seathl looked to the future in a semipositive way, saying, "We aren't going to forget who we are. . ."
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Basques in Sydney, Melbourne, and North Queensland tend to feel that they have been socially accepted with a semipositive status because of their excellent work reputations with non-Basque employers.
Having a dual that is nonnegative.
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The purpose of this short note is to give a remark on the decomposition theorem for direct images of canonical sheaves tensorized with Nakano semipositive vector bundles.
Having all elements nonnegative where at least one is positive.
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A type of compression mold for plastics that allows for excess powder and flash, as in an open flash mold, but which allows for lower melt viscosities as in a fully positive mold.
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For such products, a semipositive mold is designed (Fig. 1.1.14), with the flash at a right angle to the direction of pressure.
The semipositive, vertical-flash type mold, shown in Fig. 13-2, requires double fitting of force to cavity and is costly.
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Semipositive molds are more expensive to manufacture and maintain than the other types, but they are much better from an applications point of view.