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" Their doctrines have numerous resemblances to those of the Bogomils and the earlier Paulicians as well as the Manicheans and the Christian Gnostics of the first few centuries AD, although, as many scholars, most notably Mark Pegg, have pointed out, it would be erroneous to extrapolate direct, historical connections based on theoretical similarities perceived by modern scholars.
Creating a macro assembler and an interpreter for a completely theoretical piece of hardware could take as little as a few hundred lines, with a new instruction being added with a single line.
Its theoretical performance was thus 160 MIPS ( 80 MHz x 2 instructions ), although there were a few limitations that made floating point performance generally about 136 MFLOPS.
As opposed to the psychoanalytic tradition, driven by the relatively speculative ( in the sense of being hard to empirically verify ), theoretical concepts such as the Oedipus complex or Electra complex, the cognitive tradition of research on unconscious processes is based on relatively few theoretical assumptions and is very empirically oriented ( i. e., it is mostly data driven ).
However during the period until the beginning of the 19th century few formal arms control agreements were recorded, except theoretical proposals and those imposed on defeated armies.
The base for the discovery were the palaeoglaciological studies during the last few years and theoretical models of the diluvial morpholithogenesis.
For the most part, universities and research institutes have refused to test Oates ' theories because of a lack of theoretical basis to make his predictions even worth testing, and the fact that many of his claims are untestable, but one of the few scientific experiments to evaluate Oates ' claims did not support his findings.
Austrian federalism is largely theoretical as the states are granted few legislative powers.
Due to increasing differences with the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., he served in that role for only a brief time, but Mencken wrote that Hazlitt was the " only competent critic of the arts that I have heard of who was at the same time a competent economist, of practical as well as theoretical training ," adding that he " is one of the few economists in human history who could really write.
Yet few theoretical physicists believe general relativity a fundamentally accurate description of gravitation, and instead seek a theory of quantum gravity.
Marxist and Marx-influenced 20th century theory, such as ( to name a few random examples ) the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, the political writing of Antonio Gramsci, and the neo-Marxism of Fredric Jameson, must take Marx's condemnation of philosophy into account, but many such thinkers also feel a strong need to remedy the perceived theoretical problems with orthodox Marxism.
At the end of the day, Winnicott is one of the few twentieth-century analysts who, in stature, breadth ( and minuteness ) of observations, and theoretical fertility can perhaps legitimately be compared to Sigmund Freud: ' some genius analysts, such as Freud and Winnicott ... learned naturally how to learn from their patients.
Although his original theoretical contributions were relatively few, with nowhere near the long-range impact of other 17th-century German writers, like Johannes Lippius, Christoph Bernhard or Joachim Burmeister, he compiled an encyclopedic record of contemporary musical practices.
The resulting voltage is about 1. 2 – 1. 3 V, depending on the particular technology and circuit design, and is close to the theoretical 1. 22 eV bandgap of silicon at 0 K. The remaining voltage change over the operating temperature of typical integrated circuits is on the order of a few millivolts.
Although Deng provided the theoretical background and the political support to allow economic reform to occur, few of the economic reforms that Deng introduced were originated by Deng himself.
Basic geometrical figures, numbers that were easy to work with, one or just a few length units and simple ratios, and perhaps proportions as well were among the theoretical aids all builders inherited.
The untrained theoretical physicist somehow manages to survive the chaos, impressing the few surviving scientists and security guards with his heroic acts, while quickly becoming the HECU's high-priority target.
Simple theoretical DSGE models, involving only a few variables, have been used to analyze the forces that drive business cycles ; this empirical work has given rise to two main competing frameworks called the real business cycle model and the New Keynesian DSGE model.
One of the few exceptions was a 1986 journal article by literature professor Stephen D. Cox, in which he contrasted Rand's formal aesthetic theory from the book with her own practices as an author of fiction, arguing that her practice contradicted some of her theoretical points.
Asplund published few theoretical texts.
The men signing the petition on behalf of the entire Chamber knew " full well that the School is of interest to many students already in attendance and, hundreds of others in the next few years will be drawn to Baylor University in order to acquire the theoretical and practical values to courses offered in proper correlation in a Baylor University School of Commerce.
On the other hand, the few who could enter the university were given an education which was heavily theoretical and used memorization as the primary learning technique.
The Closed Sicilian, commonly reached by 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3, without an early d4 by White, gives Black few theoretical difficulties.

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Only a few physicists, such as Enrico Fermi, have been successful in both roles.
A few physicists think that Einstein's theory of gravity will have to be modified, not at small scales, but at large distances, or, equivalently, small accelerations.
While plasma cosmology has never had the support of most astronomers or physicists, a few researchers have continued to promote and develop the approach, publishing mostly in the IEEE journal Transactions on Plasma Science.
It was believed that the Japanese atomic program was not far advanced because Japan had little access to uranium ore, the industrial effort required far exceeded what Japan was capable of, and American physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, who knew the leading Japanese physicists personally, led to the conclusion that their qualified people were too few in number.
In 1993 when he was the British science minister he observed that British taxpayers were paying a lot of money ( in contributions to CERN ) for something very few of them understood, and he challenged UK particle physicists to explain, in a simple manner on one piece of paper, ' What is the Higgs Boson, and why do we want to find it?
There remained a few sceptics about this interpretation until, a decade or so later, American physicists using satellite data regularly detected bursts of electrons 25 minutes or so after solar flares.
For several years he was one of the very few physicists who pursued string theory as a viable theory of quantum gravity.
There are a few standard notations used by crystallographers, mineralogists, and physicists.
Although most of the arrows of time described by physicists are thought to be special cases of the thermodynamic arrow, there are a few that are believed to be unconnected, like the cosmological arrow of time based on the fact that the universe is expanding rather than contracting, and the fact that a few processes in particle physics actually violate time-symmetry, while they respect a related symmetry known as CPT symmetry.
( Heim theory is not part of mainstream physics, and few physicists would describe it as a TOE.
Krauss is one of the few living physicists referred to by Scientific American as a " public intellectual ", and he is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major U. S. physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics.
Unfortunately his descriptions of this theory were sketchy and difficult to understand, so very few physicists followed up on his work.
If these physicists are correct, we would gain a kind of self-abnegating intellectual honesty or realism, but we would pay a hefty price, since few idealizations have proven as fruitful in physics as the notion of a point particle ( however troublesome it has been even in simpler theories ).
Only a few theoretical physicists like Lorentz, Poincaré, Abraham or Langevin, still believed in the existence of an aether in any form.
However, by this time a few physicists, such as Felix A. E. Pirani and Ivor Robinson, had come to appreciate the role played by curvature in producing tidal accelerations, and were able to convince many peers that gravitational radiation would indeed be produced, at least in cases such as a vibrating spring where different pieces of the system were clearly not in inertial motion.

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A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;
Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.
`` We know Penny spent some -- and Carmer must have dropped a few dollars getting that load on ''.
Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.
A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.
`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have her few little hours of escape.
The few scholars who have adopted the `` shore occupied by '' interpretation, Howorth, Shore, and Wade-Evans, have all been Celtic survivalists.
and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.
These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.
Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.
The relatively few communities that have educational stations have found them of considerable value.
Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.
We have quite a few home-grown specimens of our own.
He seems to have at least a few 30- and 50-megaton bombs on hand, since we cannot assume that he has exploded his entire stock.
Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: `` The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom ''!!
Only a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.
If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.
The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in military technology in history.
Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

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