* The division of both poems into two distinct phases-a first half Odyssean phase of wandering and adventuring in a different land and a second half Iliadic phase upon taking leadership in a new kingdom and fighting a terrible enemy there.

In order to save time, a second deck, preferably distinct from the first, is employed so that as the first is being dealt, the second is being shuffled by the partner of the current dealer.

His first draft, produced during Henry's reign, retained the traditional seven distinct Canonical hours of Office prayer ; but in his second draft, while he retained the Latin, he consolidated these into two.

Georges Dumézil in his controversial trifunctional hypothesis proposed that ancient societies had three main classes each with distinct functions: the first judicial and priestly ; the second connected with the military and war, while the third class focussed on production, agriculture, craft and commerce.

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

A second study showed that poxvirus, baculovirus and the animal herpesviruses form separate and distinct clades.

The concepts of the leap year and leap day are distinct from the leap second, which results from changes in the Earth's rotational speed.

Ancient Baltic peoples appeared during the second millennium BC and four distinct tribal realms in Latvia's territories were identifiable towards the end of the first millennium AD.

Based on the same core material as Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, it followed a second route of commentary and editing, and eventually emerged as a distinct work.

The first variation consists of three distinct steps ( the Bosch Process as used in the Plasma-Therm tool ) while the second variation only consists of two steps ( ASE used in the STS tool ).

Contrary to popular belief, the so-called " Star Chamber Act " of King Henry VII's second Parliament ( 1487 ) did not actually empower the Star Chamber, but rather created a separate tribunal distinct from the King's general Council.

The film has two distinct parts: the first is a mystery ; the second a science-fiction adventure.

In addition to Seurat, the roots of cubism are to be found in the two distinct tendencies of Cézanne's later work: first his breaking of the painted surface into small multifaceted areas of paint, thereby emphasizing the plural viewpoint given by binocular vision, and second his interest in the simplification of natural forms into cylinders, spheres, and cones.

Under the second definition, depressions and recessions will always be distinct events however, having the same starting dates.

Similarly if what were previously thought to be two distinct species are demoted to a lower rank, such as subspecies, where possible the second part of the binomial name is retained as the third part of the new name.

It is the unit of symbol rate, also known as baud rate or modulation rate ; the number of distinct symbol changes ( signaling events ) made to the transmission medium per second in a digitally modulated signal or a line code.

In 1992, Deneuve starred opposite Vincent Perez in the romantic drama Indochine, for which she which won a second César Award and received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress ; Deneuve is one of the distinct few to receive an Oscar nomination for a non-English speaking role.

In other words, the first equation has distinct roots, while the second does not.

By 1933, Lull had had second thoughts about Diceratops being a distinct genus and he put it in a subgenus of Triceratops: Triceratops ( Diceratops ), including T. obtusus ; largely attributing its differences to being that of an aged individual.

This second theory is supported by anthropological evidence which has found that Scythian skulls are similar to preceding findings from the Timber Grave culture, and distinct from those of the Central Asian Sacae.

These distinct forms are sometimes referenced as " second locative " or " new locative ", because they developed independently from the true locative case, which existed in the Old Russian.

In most of the manuscripts there is a division into three books, forming two distinct works ; the first and second books forming one work under the title Physical and Moral Extracts (, or " Eclogues "), the third book forming another work, called Florilegium or Sermones, (, or " Anthology ").

The eight worlds feature distinct visual themes ; for example, the second world, " Desert Land ", contains sand-covered levels with pyramids, while the levels in the fourth world, " Giant Land ", are populated with obstacles and enemies four times as large as other worlds.

This will be more or less our general method for the second problem.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

The second problem was how to determine the power needed for sustained flight.

For example, the second edition of the popular introductory textbook, An Outline of Money, devoted the last three of its ten chapters to questions of foreign exchange management and in particular the ' problem of balance '.

Challenger launched successfully on its second attempt at 29 July 1985, 17: 00 EDT, after a delay of one hour and 37 minutes due to a problem with the table maintenance block update uplink.

In logic, the second problem on David Hilbert's list of open problems presented in 1900 was to prove that the axioms of arithmetic are consistent.

The second problem concerned saving progress.

* Hilbert's second problem

The second, third and fourth paradoxes are variants of a single paradox and relate to the problem of what it means to " know " something and the identity of objects involved in an affirmation.

A 2009 survey found that Europeans rated climate change as the second most serious problem facing the world, between " poverty, the lack of food and drinking water " and " a major global economic downturn ".

The second problem is hydrofoils are almost like sharp knives going through the water, normally fatally injuring any marine mammal ( e. g. whales ) they hit.

The equivalence of the two definitions follows from the fact that an algorithm on such a non-deterministic machine consists of two phases, the first of which consists of a guess about the solution which is generated in a non-deterministic way, while the second consists of a deterministic algorithm which verifies or rejects the guess as a valid solution to the problem.

In the second half of the 19th century, the fortifications around the city became a major problem.

The original computer now knows the answer to that smaller problem based on the second computer's response, and can transmit a fresh packet embodying a different sub-problem.

( See Hilbert's second problem.

Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.

Similarly the question of whether a Turing machine T terminates on an initially empty tape ( rather than with an initial word w given as second argument in addition to a description of T, as in the full halting problem ) is still undecidable.

The two rounds system tries to overcome this problem by permitting only two candidates in the second round, so that one must receive an absolute majority of votes.

Proposals to resolve the second problem have made greater progress, but they are yet to be adopted.

A work-around to this problem, common to several syllabaries around the world ( including English loanwords in Japanese ), is to write an echo vowel, as if the syllable coda was a second syllable: ba-gu for " bag ", etc.

The director's health became a continuing problem, so friend and actor James Coburn was brought in to serve as second unit director, and he filmed many of the scenes while Peckinpah remained in his on-location trailer.

In contrast, the second question turned out to be much more difficult, and the question became a famous open problem in formal language theory for over two decades.

It is therefore well suited for the problem of vocabulary acquisition in the course of second language learning, due to the size of the target language's inventory of open-class words.

Timing issues on the 500 were a problem within the sport until electronic clocks arrived in the 1960s ; during the 1936 Olympic 500 – metre race, it was suggested that Ivar Ballangrud's 500-metre time was almost a second too good.

Either party could " flash " the operator's supervision lamps by depressing their switch hook for a second and releasing it, in case they needed assistance with a problem.