They selected an arbitrary cut-off date of 15 August 1917 and the names of the UK missing after this date were inscribed on the Tyne Cot memorial instead.

The order of this congruence is Af, since Af secants of a curve of symbol ( B ) on a quadric surface pass through an arbitrary point.

But if this is the case, then an arbitrary pencil of lines having a point, P, of **zg as vertex is transformed into a ruled surface of order Af having Af generators concurrent at P.

If the source is located at an arbitrary source point, denoted by the vector and the field point is located at the point, then we may represent the scalar Green's function ( for arbitrary source location ) as:

As only differences in electronegativity are defined, it is necessary to choose an arbitrary reference point in order to construct a scale.

An example of a projection is the function π < sub > xy </ sub > defined by, which projects an arbitrary point in 3D space to a point on the x – y-plane, where the third coordinate ( z ) is equal to 0.

Pressure is transmitted to solid boundaries or across arbitrary sections of fluid normal to these boundaries or sections at every point.

The American legal scholar Steven M. Wise argues that speciesism is a bias as arbitrary as any other, a point conceded even by some critics of animal rights.

Through babl GEGL provides an optimized and powerful ( optionally with SIMD support ) treatment of arbitrary color data ; This enables dependant applications to efficiently support a wide range of color spaces ( from 8-bit RGB to full floating point CMYK ) with minimal extra application code.

If a feature was intended to be located from the center of the part, the operator needs to locate it from the center of the model, not, perhaps, from a more convenient edge or an arbitrary point, as he could when using " dumb " solids.

Using a little linear algebra, one can fairly easily construct approximations, which sample an arbitrary number of points to the left and a ( possibly different ) number of points to the right of the center point, for any order of derivative.

# The ratio of the channel noise at any point in a transmission system to an arbitrary level chosen as a reference.

Circuit noise level: At any point in a transmission system, the ratio of the circuit noise at that point to an arbitrary level chosen as a reference.

In the presence of an arbitrary phase-shift introduced by the communications channel, the demodulator is unable to tell which constellation point is which.

One cannot exploit circular symmetry anymore, since the line between the source and an arbitrary point on the screen does not pass through the center of the circular object.

Furthermore, this fixed point can be found as follows: start with an arbitrary element x < sub > 0 </ sub > in X and define an iterative sequence by x < sub > n </ sub >

Because an arbitrary potential can be approximated as a harmonic potential at the vicinity of a stable equilibrium point, it is one of the most important model systems in quantum mechanics.

The Buddhists pushed for a five point agreement: freedom to fly religious flags, an end to arbitrary arrests, compensation for the Huế victims, punishment for the officials responsible and religious equality.

* Also, start with some arbitrary point as the first sample.

While the particular limits of these groupings may seem artificially arbitrary, they do fairly express a corresponding grouping of more variable material, and they eventuate also in five classes, along a similar scale, containing approximately equal numbers of cases, namely 19, 14, 15, 11, 12 in Athabascan.

HRTFs are measured at small increments of θ such as 15 ° or 30 ° in the horizontal plane, with interpolation used to synthesize HRTFs for arbitrary positions of θ.

studied the analogue of the 15 puzzle on arbitrary finite connected and non-separable graphs.

On November 15, 2005, Felten and J. Alex Halderman showed that Sony's method for removing XCP copy protection software from the computer makes it more vulnerable to attack, as it essentially installed a rootkit, in the form of an Active X control used by the uninstaller, and left it on the user's machine and set so as to allow any web page visited by the user to execute arbitrary code.

Instead, he assigned an arbitrary value of 100 to the mean intelligence and added or subtracted another 15 points for each standard deviation above or below the mean the subject was.

For comparison, Canada has 15 fourteeners, and Mexico has 8 ; however, the importance of the arbitrary 14, 000-foot mark is minimal outside of the U. S. ( due in large part to the otherwise universal usage of the metric system ).

In the application's statement, Caleb Bradham describes the trademark as an " arbitrary hyphenated word " PEPSI-COLA ", and indicated that the mark was in continuous use for his business since August 1, 1901.

In August 1964, the junta head, General Nguyễn Khánh, decided to increase his authority by declaring a state of emergency, increasing police powers, banning protests, tightening censorship and allowing the police arbitrary search and imprisonment powers.

A Minneapolis Post article in August 2008 summarized his position as: " He believes the prospects are good for a drawdown of U. S. troops, but it must be done based on conditions on the ground as reported by commanders in the field, not according to an ' arbitrary ' timetable set for ' political ' reasons in Washington.

On the 10 August began the dictatorial and arbitrary epoch of the revolution ...

In August 2002, the Mannheim regional court declined a parole request due to the unusual cruelty of his offences ; he had been found guilty of carrying out arbitrary murders based on Ethnic hatred racial hatred against Jewish people.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.

Caracalla left for the frontier, where for the rest of his short reign he was known for his unpredictable and arbitrary operations launched by surprise after a pretext of peace negotiations.

To its ancient detractors the democracy was reckless and arbitrary.

While Greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants, this was a form of arbitrary government that was on the decline.

Digicel then issued court proceedings against the Regulator, arguing that he had acted improperly by imposing an arbitrary limit of three licenses ( although interestingly no complaint was made about the decision to prefer BVI Cable TV's improbable license over Digicel ).

He believed that the artistic value of comics was being undermined, and that the space they occupied in newspapers continually decreased, subject to arbitrary whims of shortsighted publishers.

Bliss-characters can now be used in a creative way to create many new arbitrary concepts, by surrounding the invented words with special Bliss indicators ( similar to punctuation ), something which was not possible in the ISO-IR / 169 encoding.

The arbitrary ( 1 / 683 ) term was chosen so that the new definition would exactly match the old definition.

Despite several army mutinies and increasing civic concern both at his erratic style and arbitrary, corrupt method of governing he was re-elected for another 6-year term in September 1999.

The second period was characterized by the Spanish attempts to reimpose arbitrary rule during the period known as the Reconquista of 1814 – 1817 (" Reconquest ": the term echoes the Reconquista in which the Christian kingdoms retook Iberia from the Muslims ).

The significance of this lemma was recognized by Émile Borel ( 1895 ), and it was generalized to arbitrary collections of intervals by Pierre Cousin ( 1895 ) and Henri Lebesgue ( 1904 ).

Their power was originally neither arbitrary nor unaccountable, being subject to law and requiring retrospective justification.

If the subject could so judge his own superior, then all lawful superior authority could lawfully be overthrown by the arbitrary judgement of an inferior, and thus all law was under constant threat.

Its elimination of the index was condemned, as was the apparently arbitrary division of articles into the Micropædia and Macropædia.

Essentially, a 35 ns pixel mode was added plus the ability to run arbitrary horizontal and vertical scan rates.

Changes could and did occur in the language, but only by acquiring widespread popular support ; there was no central authority making arbitrary changes, as happened with Volapük and some other languages.

Note: the fasces depicted have no axes, possibly because in the Roman Republic, the blade was always removed from the bundle whenever the fasces were carried inside the city, in order to symbolize the rights of citizens against arbitrary state power ( see above ).

The view of Henry and his advisors did not encompass a long view into constitutional history: the Coronation Charter was one of several expedients designed to distance him from the extraordinary and arbitrary oppressions of William Rufus ' reign, claiming to return to the practices of Edward the Confessor, made clear in clause 13, a statement of general principles.

Further, some interpret the ideas of Charles Darwin as suggesting that some traits, such as hair texture, were so arbitrary to human survival that the role natural selection played was trivial.

Infocom's puzzles were unique in that they were usually tightly integrated into the storyline, and rarely did gamers feel like they were being made to jump through one arbitrary hoop after another, as was the case in many of the competitors ' games.

But before this he had already devoted to the Revelation another treatment, a rather arbitrary recasting of the commentary of Saint Victorinus, with whose chiliastic views he was not in accord, substituting for the chiliastic conclusion a spiritualizing exposition of his own, supplying an introduction, and making certain changes in the text.