Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; ;

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 ).

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

It occupies a central place in modern mathematics and has multiple conceptual connections with such diverse fields as complex analysis, topology and number theory.

This number connects to a computer at a local central office, which uses a voice synthesizer or digital samples to " speak " the phone number of the line calling in.

The presence of shock waves, along with the compressibility effects of high-velocity ( see Reynolds number ) fluids, is the central difference between supersonic and subsonic aerodynamics problems.

The prehistory of arithmetic is limited to a small number of artifacts which may indicate conception of addition and subtraction, the best-known being the Ishango bone from central Africa, dating from somewhere between 20, 000 and 18, 000 BC although its interpretation is disputed.

The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

The literature on central bank independence has defined a number of types of independence.

The IMF's Financial Services Action Plan ( FSAP ) review self-assessment, for example, includes a number of questions about central bank independence in the transparency section.

A measure of central tendency is any of a number of ways of specifying this " central value ".

The number of ligands that react with a central metal atom can be found using the 18-electron rule, saying that the valence shells of a transition metal will collectively accommodate 18 electrons, whereas the symmetry of the resulting complex can be predicted with the crystal field theory and ligand field theory.

The central concept of utilitarianism, which was developed by Jeremy Bentham, was that that public policy should seek to provide " the greatest happiness of the greatest number ".

" And that " Gay adults clearly have a different way of interpreting the Bible on a number of central theological matters, such as perspectives about God.

This system though is not very reliable and lacks discipline, the high number of public cars that transit the roads, and the fact that they do not lend itself to regulation or central control, which causes frequent transit problems among city roads.

Hilbert did not work in the central areas of analytic number theory, but his name has become known for the Hilbert – Pólya conjecture, for reasons that are anecdotal.

A number of other bassists, such as Ray Brown, Slam Stewart and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, were central to the history of jazz.

Quayle writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.

This affair damaged Beria ; not only had he championed the creation of the committee in 1942, but his own entourage included a substantial number of Jews.

Politburo (, literally " Polit ( ical ) Bureau the Central Committee ") is the executive committee for a number of communist political parties.

As of 2010, the Chargers ' policy was to have the Chargers Hall of Fame committee evaluate candidates for a player's number to retire after the player has retired from the league after five years, Seau was the only exception to this policy.

Until the late 1970s, the First Committee was the Political and Security Committee ( POLISEC ) and there was also a sufficient number of additional " political " matters that an additional, unnumbered main committee, called the Special Political Committee, also sat.

One type of private interest group that has grown in number and influence in recent years is the political action committee or PAC.

Each Worldcon committee selects a number of guests of honor ( often just " GoH " in publications ).

Some members of the committee may be performing a variety of current or past roles and could have a large number of ribbons attached to each other hanging from a badge.

Its operations were overseen by the Twenty Committee under the chairmanship of John Cecil Masterman ; the name of the committee comes from the number 20 in Roman numerals: " XX ".

Over a period of several years and at large expense, the committee investigated a number of options but no proposal was decided upon.

The IN concepts, architecture and protocols were originally developed as standards by the ITU-T which is the standardization committee of the International Telecommunication Union, prior to this a number of telecommunications providers had proprietary IN solutions.

During the committee stage, Isaac Gascoyne put forward a motion objecting to provisions of the bill that reduced the total number of seats in the House of Commons.

" The committee usually nominates a small number of artists ( 12 in 2010 ) from an increasing number of different genres.

However, each screening committee is limited as to the number of candidates it can put forth to the Honors Committee — 10 from the North American Committee, and two from each other committee.

As long as the number of candidates receiving sufficient votes from a screening committee is not greater than the number of finalists that committee can put forth, advancement to the Honors Committee is generally pro forma, although the Hall's Board of Trustees may remove any candidate who " has damaged the integrity of the game of basketball " from consideration.

But he annoyed a number of ministers and was heavily censured by the privileges committee for a leak about the biological weapons research establishment Porton Down to the newspapers ( though he claimed that he thought the minutes were in the public domain ).

Each committee is charged with screening or listening to a small number of entries and delivering written recommendations to the Peabody Board, a 16-member panel of scholars, critics and media-industry professionals.

The committee held four meetings during the initial four-year development plan, and coordinated a number of field trials with broadcasters, telephone companies, cable television firms, manufacturers and various information providers.

In France a mayor, maire, and a number of experienced members termed adjoint au maire ' mayoral adjunct ', who assist him as an executive committee, are selected by the municipal council from among their own number.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

A man does not make that kind of gamble if he suspects that one or more of the limited number of tenure positions is being reserved for members of the `` family ''.

For a number of years, Wesleyan has been drawing varied groups of political and business leaders into these informal discussions with members of the faculty and student body, attempting to explore and clarify aspects of their responsibility for public policy.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

Most members of Asteraceae are herbaceous, but a significant number are also shrubs, vines and trees.

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

On the border of the insignia, there are sixteen stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly Duke.

Furthermore, Pericles employed a number of offices to maintain Athens ' empire: proxenoi, who fostered good relations between Athens and League members ; episkopoi and archontes, who oversaw the collection of tribute ; and hellenotamiai, who received the tribute on Athens ' behalf.

In other cases the forces may be distributed among a large number of members, as in a truss, or not clearly discernible to a casual observer as in a box beam.

A number of the larger societies made such proposals to their members and all were accepted.

The bylaws commonly also specify the number of members of the board, how they are to be chosen, and when they are to meet.

A small number of Boers may also be members of Baptist, Pentecostal or Lutheran Churches.

A number of stories in Greek mythology involve cannibalism, in particular cannibalism of close family members, for example the stories of Thyestes, Tereus and especially Cronus, who was Saturn in the Roman pantheon.

It is alleged that its chief of staff is a Limerick man and that a number of other key members are from that county.

If the Council still does not approve the Parliament's position, then the text is taken to a " Conciliation Committee " composed of the Council members plus an equal number of MEPs.

The REIO would vote at CITES meetings with the number of votes representing the number of members in the REIO, but it would not have any additional vote.

The number of attending members in the three periods varied considerably.

It increased toward the close, but never reached the number of the First Council of Nicaea ( which had 318 members ) nor of the First Vatican Council ( which numbered 744 ).

The United States Constitution mandates that a census be taken every ten years in order to apportion the number of members of the United States House of Representatives among the several states.

As the number of members grow, a single community-wide team may subdivide.

Thus the Rump never had more than two hundred members ( less than half the number of the Commons in the original Long Parliament ).

The number of Standing Committee members varies and has tended to increase over time.