Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.

The simplest division, and the one most frequently used ( with subdivisions ) in gas and electric rate cases, is a threefold division of the total operating and capital costs into `` customer costs '', `` energy '' or `` volumetric costs '', and `` demand '' or `` capacity '' costs.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

In its simplest form, the assumption of unit-treatment additivity states that the observed response from experimental unit when receiving treatment can be written as the sum of the unit's response and the treatment-effect, that is

The simplest possible alkane ( the parent molecule ) is methane, CH < sub > 4 </ sub >.

One of the simplest algorithms is to find the largest number in an ( unsorted ) list of numbers.

The simplest alcohol is methanol,, which was formerly obtained by the distillation of wood and, therefore, is called " wood alcohol ".

The configuration of six carbon atoms in aromatic compounds is known as a benzene ring, after the simplest possible such hydrocarbon, benzene.

Benzene, C < sub > 6 </ sub > H < sub > 6 </ sub >, is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon and was recognized as the first aromatic hydrocarbon, with the nature of its bonding first being recognized by Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz in the 19th century.

This " check yes or no " approach means approval voting is one of the simplest voting systems to use.

The simplest aliphatic compound is methane ( CH < sub > 4 </ sub >).

The simplest alkene is ethylene ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 4 </ sub >), which has the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) name ethene.

The simplest example of this reaction is the catalytic hydrogenation of ethylene to yield ethane:

Propadiene, the simplest allene, is also known as allene.

In computability theory, the Ackermann function, named after Wilhelm Ackermann, is one of the simplest and earliest-discovered examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.

The simplest way to gain information about brain anatomy is by visual inspection, but many more sophisticated techniques have been developed.

The simplest example is when the defensive team records two outs and makes an error on a play that would have been the third out.

The simplest type of carbohydrate is a monosaccharide, which among other properties contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, mostly in a ratio of 1: 2: 1 ( generalized formula C < sub > n </ sub > H < sub > 2n </ sub > O < sub > n </ sub >, where n is at least 3 ).

In the simplest format, a trader is given a prize of medium value ( such as a television set ), and the host offers them the opportunity to trade for another prize.

At its simplest level, it proposes that economic independence and self-sufficiency are legitimate objectives for a nation to pursue, and systems of protection are justified to allow the nation to develop its industrial and commercial infrastructure to the point where it can compete on equal terms in international trade.

* At the simplest level, it is argued that in trade, one man's gain is another man's loss ; so if we subtracted total losses from total gains, the result would be zero.

* A beacon is perhaps the simplest non-electronic digital signal, with just two states ( on and off ).

For emergency signals, Morse code can be sent by way of improvised sources that can be easily " keyed " on and off, making it one of the simplest and most versatile methods of telecommunication.

These terms give rise to abbreviations for the types of switch which are used in the electronics industry such as " single-pole, single-throw " ( SPST ) ( the simplest type, " on or off ") or " single-pole, double-throw " ( SPDT ), connecting either of two terminals to the common terminal.

The simplest is a plastic syringe with the end cut off to form a piston corer which can be deployed in the littoral zone, or in the sub-littoral using SCUBA gear.

These agents served various functions, the simplest being a reducing agent which prevented oxides from forming on the surface of the molten metal, while others absorbed impurities into the slag which could be scraped off the molten metal.

In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score or " counts " by one's own off both the opponent's cue ball and the on a single shot.

The simplest CSOs have only one or two pick-up points, but more advanced systems allow cars to be picked up and dropped off at any available public parking space within a designated operating area.

In the simplest case, an addressable volume of space is created out of active elements that are transparent in the off state but are either opaque or luminous in the on state.

It takes a lifetime of training and dedication to pull off the simplest of parlor tricks.

The simplest defense is for web browsers not to support IDNA or other similar mechanisms, or for users to turn off whatever support their browsers have.

The simplest method is to allow time for sedimentation to occur, and then pour off the remaining liquid.

The simplest amides are derivatives of ammonia wherein one hydrogen atom has been replaced by an acyl group.

In the simplest competition, singles, one of the two opponents flips a coin to see who wins the " mat " and begins a segment of the competition ( in bowling parlance, an " end "), by placing the mat and rolling the jack to the other end of the green to serve as a target.

It is the simplest of the orders, characterized by short, faceted, heavy columns with plain, round capitals ( tops ) and no base.

The simplest version of mechanical cocking device is a hook attached to a belt, drawing the bow by straightening the legs.

The simplest case is when y is a linear function of x, meaning that the graph of y divided by x is a straight line.

The simplest example of this is a pair of electric charges of equal magnitude but opposite sign, separated by some ( usually small ) distance.

According to this theory, living beings were classified on an ideal pyramid that represented the simplest animals on the lower levels, with complexity increasing progressively toward the top, occupied by human beings.

Driven by gunpowder, this, the simplest form of internal combustion engine was unable to deliver sustained power, but was useful for propelling weaponry at high speeds towards enemies in battle and for fireworks.

The simplest method to achieve this is by gravity and can be seen in the coffeemaker example.

The simplest type of such a wave can be visualized by its action on a ring of freely floating particles.

; Incidence matrix: The graph is represented by a matrix of size | V | ( number of vertices ) by | E | ( number of edges ) where the entry edge contains the edge's endpoint data ( simplest case: 1-incident, 0-not incident ).

This theorem by Henkin is the most directly obtained version of the completeness theorem in its simplest proof.

Paul averred that they were being saved by the gospel, and he characterized it in the simplest terms, emphasizing Christ's appearances after the Resurrection ( 15. 3 – 8 ):

Because it is typically one of the simplest programs possible in most programming languages, it is by tradition often used to illustrate to beginners the most basic syntax of a programming language, or to verify that a language or system is operating correctly.

This may be done in its simplest form, by manually applying a nutrient-and-water solution one or more times per day in a container of inert growing media, such as rockwool, perlite, vermiculite, coco fibre, or sand.

In contrast, in frames accelerating with respect to the fixed stars, an important case being frames rotating relative to the fixed stars, the laws of motion did not hold in their simplest form, but had to be supplemented by the addition of fictitious forces, for example, the Coriolis force and the centrifugal force.

According to the first postulate of special relativity, all physical laws take their simplest form in an inertial frame, and there exist multiple inertial frames interrelated by uniform translation:

Since most wiki systems use URLs for individual pages where the page's title appears at the end of an otherwise unchanging address, the simplest way of defining such mappings is by substituting the interwiki prefix for the unchanging part of the URL.

Katakana are characterized by short, straight strokes and angular corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts.