One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;

Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts ; however, like the decorative arts, it creates objects where the practical considerations of use are essential — in a way that they are usually not for a painting, for example.

For example, automobile wheels made of an aluminium alloy are commonly referred to as simply " alloy wheels ", although in point of fact steels and most other metals in practical use are also alloys.

Stereolithography is a practical example of medical modeling being used to create physical objects.

IUPAC prefers that isotope symbols be written in superscript notation when practical, for example < sup > 12 </ sup > C and < sup > 235 </ sup > U. However, other notations, such as carbon-12 and uranium-235, or C-12 and U-235, are also used.

The practical motivation for partial application is that very often the functions obtained by supplying some but not all of the arguments to a function are useful ; for example, many languages have a function or operator similar to.

As a practical example, eating twenty-five Burger King Whoppers rather than twenty-five McDonald Quarter Pounders can cause a weight gain of more than one and one-half pounds in that year.

In Personal Knowledge, Michael Polanyi argues for the epistemological relevance of knowledge how and knowledge that ; using the example of the act of balance involved in riding a bicycle, he suggests that the theoretical knowledge of the physics involved in maintaining a state of balance cannot substitute for the practical knowledge of how to ride, and that it is important to understand how both are established and grounded.

* LaBiche Aerospace's LaBiche FSC-1 is a developmental prototype Flying Car and is an example of a practical flying car capable of utilizing today's automotive and aviation infrastructure to provide true " door-to-door " travel.

For example, these are all elements he includes in “ Hop-Frog .” The title character, a dwarf taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes.

The author counsels ( 1 ) to steadfastness and perseverance under persecution ( 1 – 2: 10 ); ( 2 ) to the practical duties of a holy life ( 2: 11 – 3: 13 ); ( 3 ) he adduces the example of Christ and other motives to patience and holiness ( 3: 14 – 4: 19 ); and ( 4 ) concludes with counsels to pastors and people ( chap.

Conversely, if the data are sparse — that is, if only K out of N Fourier coefficients are nonzero — then the complexity can be reduced to O ( K log N log ( N / K )), and this has been demonstrated to lead to practical speedups compared to an ordinary FFT for N / K > 32 in a large-N example ( N = 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >) using a probabilistic approximate algorithm ( which estimates the largest K coefficients to several decimal places ).

One practical example: The link structure of a website could be represented by a directed graph.

Network analysis have many practical applications, for example, to model and analyze traffic networks.

For a computing machine to be a practical general-purpose computer, there must be some convenient read-write mechanism, punched tape, for example.

In practical use, this is not a problem, because we are generally only interested in compressing certain types of messages, for example English documents as opposed to jibberish text, or digital photographs rather than noise, and it is unimportant if our compression algorithm makes certain kinds of random sequences larger.

When a user acquires a lossily compressed file, ( for example, to reduce download time ) the retrieved file can be quite different from the original at the bit level while being indistinguishable to the human ear or eye for most practical purposes.

In practical situations we would only have samples from and thus, for the above example, we would only minimize.

This tiny language is relatively unknown outside the video game industry ; however, it is a concrete example of how reference counting can be practical and efficient ( especially in realtime environments ).

Another practical example of worker's self-management was syndicalism as practiced in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.

In IceTV v Nine Network, for example, the High Court of Australia noted that the title of the Statute " echoed explicitly the emphasis on the practical or utilitarian importance that certain seventeenth century philosophers attached to knowledge and its encouragement in the scheme of human progress ".

It is possible to write, for example, a SNOBOL4 pattern which matches " a complete name and international postal mailing address ", which is well beyond anything that is practical to even attempt using regular expressions.

For example, wigs worn by lawyers were at first common and fashionable ; spurs worn by military officials were at first practical but now are both impractical and traditional.

Kerferd provides an example of one widespread modern view of the sophists: “… they were a set of charlatans that appeared in Greece in the fifth century, and earned ample livelihood by imposing on public credulity: professing to teach virtue, they really taught the art of fallacious discourse, and meanwhile propagated immoral practical doctrines .”

Unconcerned with the practical function of his actions, the dancer is engrossed exclusively in their `` motional content ''.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

It is by no stretch of the imagination a happy choice and the arguments against it as a practical strategy are formidable.

From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy on the `` uncommitted '' ( `` neutralist '', `` contested '' ) nations, especially on those whose leaders make the most noise -- Nehru, Tito, Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc..

Through the SBA's Management Counseling Program, practical, personalized advice on sound management principles is available upon request to both prospective and established businessmen in a community.

during the same period around sunrise, skywave transmission is declining, until at about 2 hours after sunrise it reaches a point where it becomes of little practical significance.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

This is best demonstrated by practical washing tests in which cloth articles are repeatedly washed with the same detergent formulation.

Our literature is already replete with a fantastic number of suggestions for preventive agency programming ranging from the immediately practical to the globally utopian.

Apparently the feeling is that anything more would be involvement in technical abstrusenesses of possible pedantic interest but of no visible significance in practical affairs.

The practical operational problem of lexicostatistics is the establishment of a basic list of items of meaning against which the particular forms or terms of languages can be matched as the medium of comparison.

Merton's functional sociology may have great practical use in the study of different cultures, yet it is perfectly clear, as Nagel ( 1957::

Why should the `` practical adhesion '' of a coating as assessed by a knife method change, initially increasing rather rapidly and then decreasing stepwise to very low values as the knife is forced through a coating of increasing thickness??

A second factor which enters into the practical measurement of the instrumentally determined cutting force is the frictional resistance caused by the bottom of the knife against the substrate.

The person using these tests must determine which combination of procedures is practical for any specific item in order to evaluate the dimensional changes of textile fabrics or garments after laundering procedures commonly used in the home or commercial laundry.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief, or at least the practical consequences thereof, upon others.

Cambodia is, for all practical purposes, neutralist.

Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.

The Junior Achievement program is designed to give teenagers practical experience in business by allowing them actually to form small companies, under the guidance and sponsorship of business firms.

The ANOVA F – test ( of the null-hypothesis that all treatments have exactly the same effect ) is recommended as a practical test, because of its robustness against many alternative distributions.

In practical terms, the ampere is a measure of the amount of electric charge passing a point in an electric circuit per unit time with 6. 241 × 10 < sup > 18 </ sup > electrons, or one coulomb per second constituting one ampere.

He is a practical man, doing what needs to be done without any fuss, even though he knows that the struggle against death is something that he can never win.