One growth center in a short bone -- distal phalanx of the second finger -- was chosen as an example for discussion here, primarily because epiphyseal-diaphyseal fusion, the maturity indicator for Completion in long and short bones, occurs in this center for girls near the menarche and for boys near their comparable pubescent stage.

After a short philosophical discussion, it opens with a history of Greek religion in seven stages.

Rich Pickings uses short films as a discussion aid for public conversations between with scientists, technologists, psychoanalysts and filmmakers.

After a short discussion with his head linesman, Dale Hamer, Markbreit corrected his mistake before the kickoff.

Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender during which the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely.

The music for the song, " Lovely Luawana Lady ", was written by John Ringling North, who appears briefly as himself during the discussion about whether the show would play the road rather than have a short 10 week season.

After a short discussion he and Ramsay decided to follow this up.

Listing all the protein modifications that might be studied in a " Proteomics " project would require a discussion of most of biochemistry ; therefore, a short list will serve here to illustrate the complexity of the problem.

* The Art of Asking Questions by Stanley L. Payne, ( 1951 ) This book is a short handbook-style discussion of how the honest pollster should ask questions to find out what people actually think without leading them, but the same information could be used to slant a poll to get a predetermined answer.

Isolated inhumane acts of this nature may constitute grave infringements of human rights, or depending on the circumstances, war crimes, but may fall short of falling into the category of crimes under discussion.

He reviewed over 200 science fiction short stories and novels in search of a storyline that could be used, since this film genre was well suited for a metaphorical discussion of such grave issues.

After a short discussion Sur-sunabu asks him to carve 300 oars so that they may cross the waters of death without needing the crew of stone creatures.

Wider public use of such terms on the Internet did not come until August 1993, when Alan Parry announced the existence of a new electronic mailing list for discussion of " intelligent " dance music: the Intelligent Dance Music list, or IDM List for short.

His urgent and repeated request for a public discussion with his opponents, especially with Ursacius and Valens, proved at last so inconvenient that he was sent back to his diocese, which he appears to have reached about 361, within a very short time of the accession of Emperor Julian.

After some preparation and with clearly defined roles, a discussion may constitute most of a lesson, with the teacher only giving short feedback at the end or in the following lesson.

In 1868 he published a short life of Bismarck in French, with the object of producing a better understanding of German affairs, and in 1870, owing to his intimate acquaintance with France and with finance, he was summoned by Bismarck to Versailles to help in the discussion of terms of peace.

In 1715 and 1716 Clarke had a discussion with Gottfried Leibniz relative to the principles of natural philosophy and religion, which was at length cut short by the death of his antagonist.

Another World was integrated for a short period of time causing a brief but heated discussion, ranging from emotional to purely technical aspects.

Rather than a discussion of the Gaian teleological views, or " types " of Gaia Theory, the focus was upon the specific mechanisms by which basic short term homeostasis was maintained within a framework of significant evolutionary long term structural change.

After the second charge the Germans sent out a soldier with a white flag and, after a short discussion with the Polish commander of the Nowogródek Cavalry Brigade, the Germans withdrew.

The moderators ( short singular form: " mod ") are users ( or employees ) of the forum who are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion ( similar to arbitration ) and also keeping the forum clean ( neutralizing spam and spambots etc .).

It takes more frequency bandwidth to produce a short pulse in an electrical circuit, and more angular ( or, spatial frequency ) bandwidth to produce a sharp spot in an optical system ( see discussion related to Point spread function ).

The format of the presidential debates, though defined differently in every election, is typically more restrictive than many traditional formats, forbidding participants to ask each other questions and restricting discussion of particular topics to short time frames.

Anita Desai's novella, Translator Translated, from her collection The Art of Disappearance, features a translator of a fictive Oriyan short story writer ; the novella contains a discussion of the perils of moving works composed in regional Indian languages into English.

He devised a detonating fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric current.

The reverse current ceases abruptly when the stored charge is depleted ; this abrupt stop is exploited in step recovery diodes for generation of extremely short pulses.

Having lost her short term memory in a car crash, Lucy can only remember the current day's events until she falls asleep.

* Elliot Rhodes ( Boris Conley ) is a comedian and musician, performing short musical sketches about current events at the end of Friday night episodes of Frontline.

In 2011 Baghdad probably will increase oil exports above the current level of per day as a result of new contracts with international oil companies, but is likely to fall short of the per day it is forecasting in its budget.

The current Heinkel He 115 and Dornier Do 18 flying boats were too slow and short ranged.

Lake Erie in its current form is less than 4, 000 years old, a short amount of time geologically speaking.

The short rainy season in March and April depends on a northerly counter current bringing moisture to the city: it has been shown clearly that weakness in the Benguela current can increase rainfall about sixfold compared with years when that current is strong.

In MUMPS, the current date and time is contained in a special system variable, $ H ( short for " HOROLOG ").

The series features short animated vignettes about current television shows, films, games and other aspects of popular culture.

In 104 Emperor Trajan renamed the town, which now became known as Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum, Noviomagus for short ( the origin of the current name Nijmegen ).

), the total human biomass is the average weight multiplied by the current human population of approximately 6. 5 billion ( see, e. g., ): Assuming 60 – 70 kg to be the average human mass ( approximately 130 – 150 lb on the average ), an approximation of total global human mass of between 390 billion ( 390 × 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >) and 455 billion kg ( between 845 billion and 975 billion lb, or about 423 million – 488 million short tons ).

A review and evalutation of scholarly work regarding the current state of the value of individuals ' privacy of online social networking show the following results: " first, adults seem to be more concerned about potential privacy threats than younger users ; second, policy makers should be alarmed by a large part of users who underestimate risks of their information privacy on OSNs ; third, in the case of using OSNs and its services, traditional one-dimensional privacy approaches fall short ".

These also protect the device's internal circuitry from short circuits or transients that may appear on the RS-232 interface, and provide sufficient current to comply with the slew rate requirements for data transmission.

Practical switches fall short of this ideal, and have resistance, limits on the current and voltage they can handle, finite switching time, etc.

The 1963 edition of the short story collection The Happy Highwayman contains examples of abandoned revisions ; in one story published in the 1930s (" The Star Producers "), references to actors of the 1930s were replaced for 1963 with names of current movie stars ; another 1930s-era story, " The Man Who Was Lucky ", added references to atomic power.

This was a Doric edifice with six columns on the short sides and 14 on the long ones: these can still be seen incorporated in the walls of the current church.

In practice, this area is relatively undeveloped, and current technology falls far short of this.

Some of these early bulbs had such flaws as an extremely short life, high expense to produce, and high electric current drawn, making them difficult to apply on a large scale commercially.

They usually had very short commands ( to minimize typing ) that reproduced the current line.

Within short order, the addition of a suitable direct current to the signal was found to reduce distortion by operating the head substantially within its linear response region.

More substantively, she increased the coverage of current events and hot topics such as celebrities and business tycoons, and placed short pieces throughout " Goings on About Town ", including a racy column about nightlife in Manhattan.

The nonlinear evolution of magnetohydrodynamical instabilities leads to a dramatic quench of the plasma current on a very short time scale, of the order of the millisecond.