The turn of the century, or to be more precise, the two decades preceeding and following it, marks a great change in the history of early English scholarship.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

The Istiqlal found that the spontaneous solidarity of the independence struggle was not easily transposed to the more concrete, precise problems of internal politics.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

Uncertainty overcoming itself is the precondition of the quest for new and more precise information about the world.

In continuation of these theoretical studies, a more precise elucidation of the effects of imperfections in network structure is sought.

For more rigorous and precise analysis, the numerical approximations must be used.

A January 15, 1941 story in the Des Moines Register announced the ABC as " an electrical computing machine " with more than 300 vacuum tubes that would " compute complicated algebraic equations " ( but gave no precise technical description of the computer ).

A more precise way to measure resistance is to place an object within an artificial, uniform stream of air where the velocity is known.

The more precise meaning " three-masted ship " arose in the 17th century, and often takes the French spelling for disambiguation.

By World War II, the use of the smaller divisions, platoons and companies, became much more important as precise operations became vital.

Modifications to each aircraft include removal of the aircraft gun and replacement with the tank that contains smoke-oil used in demonstrations, and outfitting with the control stick spring system for more precise aircraft control input.

Other, more precise and robust methods have been developed For example, the truncated mean of the middle 24 % of the sample order statistics produces an estimate for x < sub > 0 </ sub > that is more efficient than using either the sample median or the full sample mean.

In June 2001, NASA launched a second CMB space mission, WMAP, to make much more precise measurements of the great scale anisotropies over the full sky.

The Jordan – Hölder theorem is a more precise way of stating this fact about finite groups.

The stories locate it somewhere in Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed.

In more precise language, the dependence of y upon x means that y is a function of x.

This more precise usage enables one to distinguish between varieties of a language, such as the French spoken in Nice, France, and local languages distinct from the superordinate language, e. g. Nissart, the traditional native Romance language of Nice, known in French as Niçard.

It provides a more precise guide for the actors, directors and technicians and can be used to complement the traditional ADR method.

Dziga Vertov believed his concept of Kino-Glaz, or " Cine Eye " in English, would help contemporary man evolve from a flawed creature into a higher, more precise form.

For the sake of the example ( and this is a gross simplification ), let's assume that he values this particular risk at 5 % per annum ( we could perform a more precise probabilistic analysis of the risk, but that is beyond the scope of this article ).

His theory of peripatric speciation ( a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced ), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould.

In order to distinguish esoteric currents based primarily on sources from late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages, from e. g. Islamic or Jewish currents with similar features, the more precise term " Western esotericism " is often employed.

`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.

A brief description accompanying the picture says that the bridge contained more than 6000 tons of timber.

A more detailed description of dictionary operations -- text lookup and dictionary modification -- gives a clearer picture.

A few of the more prominent must serve as examples of what a complete listing and description would disclose.

Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

He gave a more complete description in his 1964 publications, " A Formal Theory of Inductive Inference ," Part 1 and Part 2 in Information and Control.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.

The categorization of dances as " ballroom dances " has always been fluid, with new dances or folk dances being added to or removed from the ballroom repertoire from time to time, so no list of subcategories or dances is any more than a description of current practices.

However, the work of Friedrich Hund, Robert Mulliken, and Gerhard Herzberg showed that molecular orbital theory provided a more appropriate description of the spectroscopic, ionization and magnetic properties of molecules.

A more accurate description of how the temperature near the car varies over time would require an accurate model of how the temperature varies at different altitudes.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

Note: Step ( in the description below ) is defined as: a transfer / change of weight to the opposite foot while hopping ( this is usually minimal ; almost more of a scoot than a literal hop ).

These summaries may either form the basis of the initial description of the data as part of a more extensive statistical analysis, or they may be sufficient in and of themselves for a particular investigation.

Otherwise, the description of the boundaries would be rather more logical, if schenisghe meant the city of Szczecin.

However, in the far-field EM radiation which is described by the two source-free Maxwell curl operator equations, a more correct description is that a time-change in one type of field is proportional to a space-change in the other.

According to psychologism, logic would not be an autonomous discipline, but a branch of psychology, either proposing a prescriptive and practical " art " of correct judgement ( as Brentano and some of his more orthodox students did ) or a description of the factual processes of human thought.

The group is often referred to as " the group " or more simply as "" Nevertheless, the operation "" is fundamental to the description of the group.

A more general ( algebraic ) description may state that the number of seconds,, where m is the number of minutes.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

So, to tighten the semantics of the language, and provide a more formal description of the standard, the revolutionary approach was taken to provide an information model for EDIF, in the information modeling language EXPRESS.

The solution to the " flavor " problem of EDIF 2 0 0 was to develop a more specific semantic description in EDIF 3 0 0 ( 1993 ).

Galen was not trying to present a description of the disease so that it could be recognized in future generations ; he was more interested in the treatment and physical effects of the disease.