The difference between the total and partial derivative is the elimination of indirect dependencies between variables in partial derivatives.

The total derivative adds in these indirect dependencies to find the overall dependency of on.

) Functionalism as a sociological credo is, therefore, not a direct consequence of observations, but rather an indirect consequence of philosophical inference and judgment.

Body parts, pointers, adapted mice, joysticks, or eye tracking could be used, whereas switch access scanning is often used for indirect selection.

It is a noun that is having something done to it, usually joined ( such as in Latin ) with the nominative case, making it an indirect object.

* as the subject of an indirect statement ( e. g. Dixit me fuisse saevum, " He said that I had been cruel ;" in later Latin works, such as the Vulgate, such a construction is replaced by quod and a regularly structured sentence, having the subject in the nominative: e. g., Dixit quod ego fueram saevus ).

Firing data has to be calculated and is the key to indirect fire, the arrangements for this have varied widely.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

In other words, if an ' uninhabited ' or ' infidel ' territory is colonized by Britain, then the English law automatically applies in this territory from the moment of colonization ; however if the colonized territory has a pre-existing legal system, the native law would apply ( effectively a form of indirect rule ) until formally superseded by the English law, through Royal Prerogative subjected to the Westminster Parliament.

Most psychologists and neuroscientists have not accepted these arguments — nevertheless it is clear that the relationship between a physical entity such as light and a perceptual quality such as color is extraordinarily complex and indirect, as demonstrated by a variety of optical illusions such as neon color spreading.

These requirements may be direct, such as requiring certain assets to bear certain minimum credit ratings, or indirect, by the central bank lending to counterparties only when security of a certain quality is pledged as collateral.

Radiosity is a method which attempts to simulate the way in which directly illuminated surfaces act as indirect light sources that illuminate other surfaces.

The figure is usually between 14: 1 and 16: 1 for direct injection engines and between 18: 1 and 23: 1 for indirect injection engines.

Direct contempt is distinctly different from indirect contempt, wherein another individual may file papers alleging contempt against a person who has willfully violated a lawful court order.

Where it is not necessary to be so urgent, or where indirect contempt has taken place the Attorney General can intervene and the Crown Prosecution Service will institute criminal proceedings on his behalf before a Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

A person cited for indirect contempt is entitled to notice of the charge and an opportunity for hearing of the evidence of contempt and, since there is no written procedure, may or may not be allowed to present evidence in rebuttal.

Similarly science fiction is another key influence, not only in the spaceship and the futuristic setting but also in several direct and indirect ways.

Economic planning is a mechanism for resource allocation of inputs and decision-making based on direct allocation, in contrast with the market mechanism, which is based on indirect allocation.

In general, the dative marks the indirect object of a verb, although in some instances the dative is used for the direct object of a verb pertaining directly to an act of giving something.

The OED defines all classical uses of the word " whom " in situations where the indirect object is not known – in effect, indicating the anonymity of the indirect object.

In Modern English, an indirect object is often expressed with a prepositional phrase of " to " or " for ".

If there is a direct object, the indirect object can be expressed by an object pronoun placed between the verb and the direct object.

Many 32-bit computers ( such as 68000, ARM, or PowerPC ) have more than one register which could be used as a stack pointer — and so use the " register autoincrement indirect " addressing mode to specify which of those registers should be used when pushing or popping data from a stack.

") that the related-key attacks required to break " indirect mode " NOEKEON are not a practical concern, and that it is as a result of deliberate design that NOEKEON is not vulnerable to the attacks that break the variant ciphers ; they assert that NOEKEON is still a good and useful cipher.

The hypercube is actually a distributed variant of an indirect logarithmic switching network like the Omega or banyan networks: the kind that might be used in shared-storage organizations.

Hypnotists who believed that responses are mediated primarily by an " unconscious mind ", like Milton Erickson, made more use of indirect suggestions, such as metaphors or stories, whose intended meaning may be concealed from the subject's conscious mind.

Another option is an indirect method of firing the warhead over the intended target area at ranges of 800 – 1000 m where the warhead would detonate automatically.

A more indirect influence was the scholarship on Japanese Noh plays that Pound had obtained from Ernest Fenollosa's widow, which provided Yeats with a model for the aristocratic drama he intended to write.

Sweeney had recommended that sources of natural light should not detract from the collections, and so light sources are intended to be indirect.

Likewise, the Germans, Italians, and Japanese had many obsolescent " infantry guns " in service ( short-barreled, low-velocity artillery pieces capable of both direct and indirect fire and intended for infantry support, similar in tactical role to mortars ; generally an infantry battalion had a battery of four or six ).

The approach to the castle through the moat and satellite ponds was indirect, giving visitors time to view the castle in its intended splendour.

Additionally, both indirect and direct fire projectiles that might miss an intended target are more likely to hit another valuable target within the formation if firing along the long axis.

Tomes offers an indirect definition of insurgency, drawn from Trinquier's definition of counterinsurgency: " an interlocking system of actions — political, economic, psychological, military — that aims at the intended overthrow of the established authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

On 2 June 1939, when the Soviet government offered up its definition of what constituted " aggression ", upon which the intended alliance was come into play, Bonnet sided with the Soviets against the British, who felt that the Soviet definition of " aggression ", especially " indirect aggression " was too loose a definition and phrased in such a manner as to imply the Soviet right of inference in the internal affairs of nations of Eastern Europe.

The sights on the Jarmann M1884, as first issued, were graduated from 200 m to 1600 m. There was an additional sidemounted volley sight, intended for indirect volley fire over long distances, from 1600 m to 2400 m. To be effective, an entire company would have to fire at the same time, which would ensure that at least some of the bullets found their targets.

After Komatsu's death, Go-Hanazono enjoyed 30 years of direct imperial rule ; and after he did step down from the Chrysanthemum Throne, Go-Hanozano intended that the conventional pattern of indirect government by cloistered emperors would be resumed.

Corporate governance requirements are intended to encourage the bank to be well managed, and is an indirect way of achieving other objectives.

These lectures were intended by Ritter to be a form of indirect protest against the Nazi regime.

Instead, Assault Pioneers are intended to provide the infantry battalion with its own integral (" organic ") light engineering support in the same sense as the Mortar Platoon provides the same battalion with its own ' organic ' indirect fire support.

The saline tubes were saved and used for the indirect Coombs test in the following manner.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

After drying the sections under the fan, fixing in acetone, and drying at 37-degrees as in the indirect method, the sections were treated with conjugated Af or Af ( undiluted unless mentioned otherwise ) for 5 - 30 minutes.

This conjugate was passed twice through Dowex-2-chloride and treated with various tissue powders in the same manner as described for the indirect method.

Pure altruism consists of sacrificing something for someone other than the self ( e. g. sacrificing time, energy or possessions ) with no expectation of any compensation or benefits, either direct, or indirect ( e. g., receiving recognition for the act of giving ).

The tubes allow introduction of a small camera, surgical instruments, and gases into the cavity for direct or indirect visualization and treatment of the abdomen.

They are usually used for long-range indirect bombardment support on the battlefield.

According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

In this case, the end-users for the system would be indirect end-users.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

* Arabic: Suffixes standing for direct object pronouns and / or indirect object pronouns ( as found in Indo-European languages ) are suffixed to verbs, possessive determiners are suffixed to nouns, and pronouns are suffixed to particles.

Generally a party will be accused of indirect contempt by the party for whose benefit the order was entered.

Figure 4: The symbol for an indirect heated vacuum-tube diode.

Under the influence of English, which uses the preposition " to " for both indirect objects ( give to ) and directions of movement ( go to ), the term " dative " has sometimes been used to describe cases that in other languages would more appropriately be called lative.