Whatever religious, mystical or spiritual elements were central to Stonehenge, its design includes a celestial observatory function, which might have allowed prediction of eclipse, solstice, equinox and other celestial events important to a contemporary religion.

prediction is supported by the absence of NTMs in central negative shear regions of tokamaks.

What is most impressive in his plan is wide central area, which was kept unsettled according to his macro-scale urban prediction / estimation and in time evolved to the “ agora ”, the center of both the city and the society.

One application of SVD to rather large matrices is in numerical weather prediction, where Lanczos methods are used to estimate the most linearly quickly growing few perturbations to the central numerical weather prediction over a given initial forward time period – i. e. the singular vectors corresponding to the largest singular values of the linearized propagator for the global weather over that time interval.

These perturbations are then run through the full nonlinear model to generate an ensemble forecast, giving a handle on some of the uncertainty that should be allowed for around the current central prediction.

Due to the element of the unknown, risk and uncertainty are central to forecasting and prediction.

Risk and uncertainty are central to forecasting and prediction ; it is generally considered good practice to indicate the degree of uncertainty attaching to forecasts.

This paradox is central to computational approaches to protein structure prediction.

Branch misprediction occurs when a central processing unit ( CPU ) mispredicts the next instruction to process in branch prediction, which is aimed at speeding up execution.

The history of numerical weather prediction began in the 1920s through the efforts of Lewis Fry Richardson, who used procedures originally developed by Vilhelm Bjerknes to produce by hand a six-hour forecast for the state of the atmosphere over two points in central Europe, taking at least six weeks to do so.

A pervading quality of free lyricism and a building from turns close to the ground towards jumps into the air gives the work its central focus.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

As a result of that attitude, others have been discouraged from trying central distribution.

271 - 307 ) indicate, that the concept of function in sociology has been built up from physiological and biological models, in which the notions of teleology, i.e., metaphysical purpose, are central.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

ground meats are usually prepared from scrap meats at the local level, whereas irradiation at economic volumes of production would require central processing and distribution facilities.

Central city areas have become progressively poorer locales for the major denominations since the exodus of middle-class people from most central cities.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

The pass starts from just north-east of the Island of Newfoundland and Labrador | Newfoundland over the North Atlantic Ocean to central Africa, over South Sudan.

That notion is central for explaining how formal systems come into being starting from a small set of axioms and rules.

The family includes a single genus, Ixiolirion, with four species distributed from Egypt to central Asia.

The Ancient Pueblo homeland centers on the Colorado Plateau, but extends from central New Mexico on the east to southern Nevada on the west.

Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

Finally, the statistical moments of the concatenated history are computed from the central moments:

Benzene derivatives have from one to six substituents attached to the central benzene core.

Its total length from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 295 km ( 183 miles ), during which distance it descends, draining an area of, including the whole of central Switzerland.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

In some regions, there are several numbers, depending on the telephone company and / or the area you are calling from as there can be several central offices serving some areas.

The cubists, dadaists, Stravinsky, and many later art movements struggled against this conception that beauty was central to the definition of art, with such success that, according to Danto, " Beauty had disappeared not only from the advanced art of the 1960 ’ s but from the advanced philosophy of art of that decade as well.

In fact, Dummett's writings on anti-realism can be seen as an attempt to integrate central ideas from the Philosophical Investigations into analytical philosophy.

Every telephone company, whether large or small, determines its own ANAC for each individual central office, which tends to perpetuate the current situation of a mess of overlapping and / or spotty areas of coverage.

As with the PDP-8, current + zero page addressing was central.

They may be powered by direct current ( for example a battery powered portable device or motor vehicle ), or by alternating current from a central electrical distribution grid.

Mobilian was used from the Florida northwest coast and area of the current Alabama-Georgia border westward as far as eastern Texas and in the north from the lower Mississippi Valley ( currently south and central Illinois ) to the southern Mississippi River Delta region in the south.

In the subsequent Pliocene sedimentary outwash primarily from the Apennines filled the valley and the central Adriatic generally to a depth of to but from to off the current mouth of the Po, with pockets as deep as.

It now maintains a website designed to be a central clearinghouse for police agencies, legislators, community leaders, social scientists, legal researchers, and journalists to access information about current data collection efforts, legislation and model policies, police-community initiatives, and methodological tools that can be used to collect and analyze racial profiling data.

The current Chinese economy consists of 150 corporatised state-owned enterprises that report directly to China's central government.

The following ( and current ) Moroccan dynasty, the Alaouite Dynasty which came to power in 1659, appears to have continued to exercise some degree of sovereignty over the modern Western Sahara, although the slow collapse of central authority through the 19th century, which ended in European colonial rule, no doubt attenuated that.

In the United States, Virgil and specifically the Aeneid were taught in the fourth year of a Latin sequence, at least until the 1960s ; the current ( 2011 ) Advanced Placement curriculum in Latin continues to assign a central position to the poem: " The AP Latin: Virgil Exam is designed to test the student's ability to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the lines of the Aeneid that appear on the course syllabus in Latin.

This consolidated state of Sweden already included Finland presumably from an early crusade into the area of Tavastland in central current day Finland.

The total REN for a subscriber's line is simply the sum of the RENs of all devices connected to the line ; this number expresses the overall loading effect of the subscriber's equipment on the central office ringing current generator.

This is evidenced by the current lack of consensus on issues such as central banking and welfare.

The Itäkartano centre operated as the centre of the whole district of Tapiola before the current central area was built.

Shown are the typical Asturian cottages, which were already in use in the time of the AsturesClassical geographers give conflicting views of the ethnic description of the above mentioned peoples: Ptolemy says that the Astures extended along the central area of current Asturias, between the Navia and Sella rivers, fixing the latter river as the boundary with the Cantabrian territory.

Until 1561 the church had a central tower which either collapsed or was removed, and has been replaced with the current tower over the west door.

It was a wooden church at the site of the current Grote Kerk on the Grote Markt ( central market square ).

All recalled banknotes can be exchanged at the central bank for current issue.

These events, together with the increasing current account deficit fostered by government spending, caused alarm amongst Mexican and foreign T-bill ( tesobono ) investors, who sold them rapidly, thereby depleting the already low central bank reserves ( which eventually hit a record low of $ 9 billion ).

A central electrode is charged at ( typically ) + 1700 V with respect to the conducting chamber walls, and each photon triggers a pulse-like cascade of current across this field.

In the current structure the original Norman arches survive principally under the central tower and on the north side of the nave.

They may be powered by direct current, e. g., a battery powered portable device or motor vehicle, or by alternating current from a central electrical distribution grid or inverter.

The stoat's direct ancestor was Mustela palerminea, a common carnivore in central and eastern Europe during the Middle Pleistocene, and probably reached North America in its current form during the late Blancan or early Irvingtonian.

The current county seat of Georgetown was settled upon on January 27, 1791 after residents in western Sussex County successfully petitioned the Delaware General Assembly to move the county seat to a central location as roads at the time made it too difficult to reach the county seat in Lewes.