In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.

In computer science , a loop counter is a variable that controls how many repetitions the loop will do .
In -LSB- computer programming -RSB- a loop counter is the -LSB- variable ( programming ) -PIPE- variable -RSB- that controls the iterations of a loop ( a computer -LSB- programming language -RSB- construct ) .

Russian human rights activist and dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva explained glasnost as a word that " had been in the Russian language for centuries .
" For centuries " , human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva has explained , the word " glasnost " has been in the Russian language : " It was in the dictionaries and lawbooks as long as there had been dictionaries and lawbooks .

List of National Laboratories ( Japan ) includes scientific research centers in Japan .
List of National Laboratories ( Japan ) are scientific research centers in Japan which are encompassed within the community served by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ( JSPS ) .