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diffusion

[dih-fyoo-zhuhn] / dɪˈfju ʒən /


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For the Emory patient group, the researchers were able to compare results obtained from generalized connectivity maps with those based on individual diffusion imaging.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

And the rate of AI diffusion in the U.S. had some surprises, too, according to separate research from the institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Rombach, 33, helped develop latent diffusion, a breakthrough that underpins many of today's AI image-generation systems.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Around major turning points, including the post-global financial crisis disinflation and post-pandemic inflation surge, neither diffusion measure identified inflections in the trend materially earlier than core PCE inflation,” the Nomura economists note.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

All other societies that have become literate did so by the diffusion of writing systems or of the idea of writing from one of those few primary centers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

"If countries are found to be significantly and persistently abusing red notices and diffusions, then they should be suspended from the system for a period of time," says Keith.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

As a member of the British trio Cream, he transformed simple blues lines into brilliant horizontal diffusions of sound.

From Time Magazine Archive

The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The inmates we found pious, sensible, and excellent persons, who had devoted many years among their heathen neighbors in philanthropic diffusions of the Gospel.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

The author exhibits the result of thoughtful study in his expressed views upon the mooted questions of racial origins and diffusions.

From Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 by John Wesley Powell


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