Although Epicureanism is a form of hedonism, insofar as it declares pleasure as the sole intrinsic good, its conception of absence of pain as the greatest pleasure and its advocacy of a simple life make it different from " hedonism " as it is commonly understood.

Although the natural, non-sentient environment has no intrinsic value for a utilitarian like Singer, environmental degradation is a profound threat to sentient life, and for this reason he states that environmentalists are right to speak of wilderness as a ' world heritage '.

Although there is nothing intrinsic about RP that marks it as superior to any other variety, sociolinguistic factors have given Received Pronunciation particular prestige in parts of Britain.

Although systematic reasoning is important, direct perception has intrinsic value too.

Although it is possible to show that transformation laws indeed ensure independence from the basis, sometimes a more intrinsic definition is preferred.

Although lacking a vocal sac, the males make a mating call of alternating long and short trills, by contracting the intrinsic laryngeal muscles.

Although Epicureanism is a form of hedonism, insofar as it declares pleasure to be the sole intrinsic good, its conception of absence of pain as the greatest pleasure and its advocacy of a simple life make it different from " hedonism " as it is commonly understood.

Although Bollinger's wine is famed for its intense richness and full-bodied nature, this has more to do with the way the grapes are planted and when they are harvested than any intrinsic property of blanc de noirs Champagne, which is often little different from cuvées including a proportion of Chardonnay.

Although Fuller was not the original inventor, he developed the intrinsic mathematics of the dome, thereby allowing popularization of the idea — for which he received U. S. patent 2, 682, 235 29 June 1954.

Although native vegetable foods were an ancient and intrinsic part of the cuisine, this began a period in which vegetables like lettuce, leeks, celeriac and cabbage were more widely used.

Although there is a substantial formal difference between extrinsic and intrinsic moving frames, they are both alike in the sense that a moving frame is always given by a mapping into G. The strategy in Cartan's method of moving frames, as outlined briefly in Cartan's equivalence method, is to find a natural moving frame on the manifold and then to take its Darboux derivative, in other words pullback the Maurer-Cartan form of G to M ( or P ), and thus obtain a complete set of structural invariants for the manifold.

Although initial treatment of the disease usually involves injections of B < sub > 12 </ sub > to rapidly replace body stores, a number of studies have shown long-term vitamin replacement treatment may be maintained with high-dose oral B < sub > 12 </ sub > supplements, since sufficient B < sub > 12 </ sub > is absorbed from these by a normal intestine, even without any intrinsic factor.

Extrinsic value is value which arises because of an agreement: Although the intrinsic value of a € 100 note is not much more than the value of any similar piece of paper with a comparable graphic on it, it has a practical value ( an extrinsic value ) of € 100.

Although not intrinsic to the system, problems can occur due to the differing monetary payouts and revenue-generating potential different divisions provide to their clubs.

The Catholic Church today teaches that " Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil ; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder ".

Although cardiac automaticity is intrinsic to various pacemaker tissues, heart rate and rhythm are largely under the control of the autonomic nervous system.

Although such a characterization of " integrability " has no intrinsic validity, it often implies the sort of regularity that is to be expected in integrable systems.

Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

Although several species are often considered weeds, people around the world value amaranths as leaf vegetables, cereals, and ornamentals.

Although this is a relatively small value, it was well within the observational capability of the instruments available in the early eighteenth century.

Although the sample values x < sub > i </ sub > will be concentrated about the central value x < sub > 0 </ sub >, the sample mean will become increasingly variable as more samples are taken, because of the increased likelihood of encountering sample points with a large absolute value.

Although the methylation system accounts for the wide range of sensitivity that bacteria have to chemical gradients, other mechanisms are involved in increasing the absolute value of the sensitivity on a given background.

Although the total energy of a system does not change with time, its value may depend on the frame of reference.

Although this is an independent definition that does not refer to the older basis of ephemeris time, it uses the same quantity as the value of the ephemeris second measured by the cesium clock in 1958.

Although it had a high symbolical value, something like " elevated " or " sublime ", it was generally not used to indicate the office of Emperor itself.

Although the bending of light can also be derived by extending the universality of free fall to light, the angle of deflection resulting from such calculations is only half the value given by general relativity.

Although the price of some platinum group metals can be much higher, gold has long been considered the most desirable of precious metals, and its value has been used as the standard for many currencies ( known as the gold standard ) in history.

Although gelatin is 98-99 % protein by dry weight, it has less nutritional value than many other protein sources.

Although the 8080 was generally an 8-bit processor, it also had limited abilities to perform 16-bit operations: Any of the three 16-bit register pairs ( BC, DE, HL ) or SP could be loaded with an immediate 16-bit value ( using LXI ), incremented or decremented ( using INX and DCX ), or added to HL ( using DAD ).

Although it predicts the existence of a triple critical point, it does not successfully predict its value.

Although the increased use of bank notes and the use of credit during this period did decrease the dependence and value of precious metals, these forms of currency still remained vital to the story of medieval mining.

Although doing little of practical value, the goal of making a microkernel was realized.

Although these may also be legitimately referred to as " pearls " by gemological labs and also under U. S. Federal Trade Commission rules, and are formed in the same way, most of them have no value, except as curiosities.

Although he was unable to reach the North Pole, the scientific results of the expedition, mainly the work of Sverdrup, were of considerable value.

Although historian Alwyn Barr of Texas Tech University believes that the battle " should have taught ... lessons on Mexican courage and the value of a good defensive position ", historian Stephen Hardin believes that " the relative ease of the victory at Concepción instilled in the Texians a reliance on their long rifles and a contempt for their enemies ".

Although Hamilton understood that adjustment might be needed from time to time as precious metal prices fluctuated, he believed that if the nation's unit of value was defined only by one of the two precious metals used for coins, the other would descend to the status of mere merchandise.

Although we see this diminished ability to identify social cues Wiesenfeld, Raghuram, and Garud point out that there is a value and efficiency to the type of communication for different tasks.

Although they received £ 72, 940 from the British Government in compensation, this was only a fraction of the true economic value of the manumitted slaves.

Although this was terrible news for the islands as a whole, as Isaac Dookhan has pointed out, this did mean that the value of land plummeted sharply, and enabled the newly free black community to purchase land where otherwise it might not have been able to do so.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Although forms of brass have been in use since prehistory, its true nature as a copper-zinc alloy was not understood until the post medieval period because the zinc vapor which reacted with copper to make brass was not recognised as a metal.

Although deemed thrash metal rather than black metal by today's standards, the album's lyrics and imagery focused more on anti-Christian and Satanic themes than any before it.

Although the element is only mildly toxic, it is a hazardous material as a metal and its radioisotopes present a high health risk in case of radiation leaks.

Although crochet may be done with ribbons, metal wire or more exotic filaments, most yarns are made by spinning fibers.

Although the shooter claimed an obsession for " Goth ", his favorite music list was described, by the media, as a " who's who of heavy metal.

Immediately prior to insertion, the clinician will perform a pelvic exam to determine the position of the uterus .< ref name =" Dean 2011 "> p. 150: Mechanism of action Although the precise mechanism of action is not known, currently available IUCs work primarily by preventing sperm from fertilizing ova .< sup > 26 </ sup > IUCs are not abortifacients: they do not interrupt an implanted pregnancy .< sup > 27 </ sup > Pregnancy is prevented by a combination of the " foreign body effect " of the plastic or metal frame and the specific action of the medication ( copper or levonorgestrel ) that is released.

Although knitting may be done with ribbons, metal wire or more exotic filaments, most yarns are made by spinning fibers.

Although sodium, sometimes called soda, had long been recognised in compounds, the metal itself was not isolated until 1807 by Sir Humphry Davy through the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide.

Although lead is a common metal, its discovery had relatively little impact in the ancient world.

Although ytterbium is fairly stable chemically, it is stored in airtight containers and in an inert atmosphere to protect the metal from air and moisture.

* Although pioneered earlier in Korea and by the Chinese official Wang Zhen ( with tin ), bronze metal movable type printing is created in China by Hua Sui in 1490.

Although glam rock went into a steep decline in popularity in the second half of the 1970s it was a direct influence on acts that rose to prominence later, including Kiss and American glam metal acts like Quiet Riot, W. A. S. P., Twisted Sister and Mötley Crüe.

Although the MOSFET is named in part for its " metal " gate, in modern devices polysilicon is typically used instead.

Although modern printers include many safety interlocks and protection circuits, it is possible for a high voltage or a residual voltage to be present on the various rollers, wires, and metal contacts inside a laser printer.

Although the primary purpose of Thermate-TH3 by the armed forces is as an incendiary anti-material weapon, it also has uses in welding together metal components.

Although currently there is not much suggestion that such materials will in general replace metal rebar, some of them have major advantages in specific applications, and there also are new applications in which metal rebar simply is not an option.

Although Times and Times New Roman are variations on a theme from the Times family, various differences developed between the versions marketed by Linotype and Monotype when the master fonts were transferred from metal to photo and digital media.

Although progressive metal and avant-garde metal both favor experimentation and non-standard ideas, there are rather large differences between the two genres.

Although unbinilium is expected to behave typically for an alkaline earth metal, showing a strong + 2 oxidation state, the energetic properties of its valence electrons would increase its ionization energies ; hence, unbinilium may have a lower metallic and ionic radius than expected, and may behave more similarly to calcium and strontium than barium or radium.

Although there is no pavilion, there is a stage with metal bleachers.