One reason for the popularity of the dissociation constant in biochemistry and pharmacology is that in the frequently encountered case where x = y = 1, K < sub > d </ sub > has a simple physical interpretation: when = K < sub > d </ sub >, = or equivalently /(+)= 1 / 2.

In light of the physical interpretation, a vector field with constant zero divergence is called incompressible or solenoidal – in this case, no net flow can occur across any closed surface.

If a measurement indicated that a dimensional physical constant had changed, this would be the result or interpretation of a more fundamental dimensionless constant changing, which is the salient metric.

This is a key requirement for a complete interpretation of astronomical observations, particularly pertaining to the nature of dark energy and the cosmological constant.

The first physical interpretation of the fine-structure constant α was as the ratio of the velocity of the electron in the first circular orbit of the relativistic Bohr atom to the speed of light in the vacuum.

The interpretation of Bradford's law in terms of a geometric progression was suggested by V. Yatsko who introduced an additional constant and demonstrated that Bradford distribution can be applied to a variety of objects, not only to distribution of articles or citations across journals.

Since then, the locality has been intensively studied by scientists from throughout the world, yielding a constant flow of new discoveries and triggering an extensive scientific debate surrounding the interpretation of discoveries.

Moreover, by the envelope theorem the optimal value of a Lagrange multiplier has an interpretation as the marginal effect of the corresponding constraint constant upon the optimal attainable value of the original objective function: if we denote values at the optimum with an asterisk, then it can be shown that

The ambiguity of applicable law, its nonuniform interpretation by the courts, and constant profound changes and amendments to copyright law do not allow for a definitive statement on the legality of modchips.

While the plan is successful, Harold, Howie, and even Chester fall asleep along with Dawg, and awaken shortly before dawn due to the rain and constant nightmares, presumably brought on by Chester's story, which is left open to interpretation by the end of the book as to whether or not Chester made the whole thing up or if it was based on actual ' fact ' within the canon of the series, though Chester's belief that the house is an ' American house of Dr. E. A. D ' which lead to the story, is proven to be mistaken by story's end.

While the interpretation of the rotation signals from the semicircular canals is straightforward, the interpretation of otolith signals is more difficult: since gravity is equivalent to a constant linear acceleration, one somehow has to distinguish otolith signals that are caused by linear movements from such that are caused by gravity.

Art and war becomes " a tussle between the world of the imagination and the world of action " — a constant tension between the factual representation of events and an artist's interpretation of those events.

They provided an interpretation of British history as a constant struggle for virtue and liberty not yet achieved, and played a significant role in the formation of revolutionary ideology.

The usual interpretation of a regression coefficient is that it provides an estimate of the effect of a one unit change in an independent variable,, holding the other variables constant.

He was critical of historical Muslim theologies and philosophies for failing to create a moral and ethical worldview based on the values derived from the Qur ' an: ' moral values ', unlike socioeconomic values, ' are not exhausted at any point in history ' but require constant interpretation.

Thus a statement of the form is said to be true, under a particular interpretation, if there is some object in the domain of discourse of that interpretation that satisfies the predicate that the interpretation uses to assign meaning to the symbol Phil.

On the other hand, a non-logical predicate symbol such as Phil ( x ) could be interpreted to mean " x is a philosopher ", " x is a man named Philip ", or any other unary predicate, depending on the interpretation at hand.

The most common symbol of Unitarian Universalism is the flaming chalice, often framed by two overlapping rings that many interpret as representing Unitarianism and Universalism ( the symbol has no official interpretation ).

A debugger can use a symbol table, if one exists, to help the programmer interpret dumps, identifying variables symbolically and displaying source code ; if the symbol table is not available, less interpretation of the dump is possible, but there might still be enough possible to determine the cause of the problem.

In these Commentaries a new interpretation of the apocalyptic accounts is given: Babylon no longer represents the city of Rome, but Córdoba, seat of the Umayyad emirs of Al-Andalus ; the Beast, once a symbol of the Roman Empire, now stands for the Islamic invaders who in this time threatened to destroy Western Christianity and who made raids on the territories of the Asturian Kingdom.

According to the interpretation of the historic Bonincontro Morigia, which refers to the medieval symbolism, the moon is a symbol of imperial power, reflected in the white sun that is related to the papal power.

The novelist Christopher Isherwood also addresses the interpretation of the linga as a sex symbol.

The ambiguity of the "-" symbol does not generally lead to ambiguity in arithmetical expressions, because the order of operations makes only one interpretation or the other possible for each "-".

This evolutionary interpretation is now disputed by historians: Beaumaris was as much a royal palace and symbol of English power as it was a straightforward defensive fortification.

Others argue that some form of Midsummer pole occurred in Sweden during the pre-Christian times, and was a phallic fertility symbol, meant to impregnate the earth, but as there were no records from those times it cannot be proven, and this idea might just be a modern interpretation of the pole's form.

Although the symbol is open to the viewer ’ s interpretation, it is generally meant to invoke transition and a sense of gradual illumination.

The interpretation based on Christian Jewish tradition assumes that its design was based on Jewish menorah, an ancient symbol of the Hebrews, which consists of seven branched lamp stand ( candelabra ).

Similarly, another classic study conducted by Bruner and Leo Postman showed slower reaction times and less accurate answers when a deck of playing cards reversed the color of the suit symbol for some cards ( e. g. red spades and black hearts ). These series of experiments issued in what some called the ' New Look ' psychology, which challenged psychologists to study not just an organism's response to a stimulus, but also its internal interpretation.

She is considered both as a symbol of self-control on sexual desire as well as an embodiment of sexual energy, depending upon interpretation.

The symbol type describes the interpretation of the symbol entity's value, and includes values for all the C data types.

is a concrete interpretation of the symbols in σ.

It consists of an underlying set ( often also denoted by " M ") together with an interpretation of the function and relation symbols of σ.

A heuristic ( but very helpful ) interpretation of the stochastic differential equation is that in a small time interval of length δ the stochastic process X < sub > t </ sub > changes its value by an amount that is normally distributed with expectation μ ( X < sub > t </ sub >, t ) δ and variance σ ( X < sub > t </ sub >, t ) ² δ and is independent of the past behavior of the process.

* M. Mizuki, A classical interpretation of Bell's inequality.

The Morrígan is usually interpreted as a " war goddess "; W. M. Hennessey's " The Ancient Irish Goddess of War ", written in 1870, was influential in establishing this interpretation.

As an example of a contrasting interpretation in which defendant lacking knowledge that the act was morally wrong meets the M ' Naghten standards, we have the instructions the judge is required to provide to the jury in cases in New York State where the defendant has raised an insanity plea as a defense:

Other support in the authorities also exists for this interpretation of the standards enunciated in the findings presented to the House of Lords regarding M ' Naghten's case:

To that end we will regard an interpretation as a correspondence between the elements of the mathematical formalism M and the elements of an interpreting structure I, where:

More recent work on the stochastic interpretation has been done by M. Pavon.

Another book, utilizing the literal method of interpretation, was The Revelation Record by Henry M. Morris ( 1983 ).

M. K. V. Narayan distinguishes the Siva-linga from anthropomorphic representations of Siva, and notes its absence from Vedic literature, and its interpretation as a phallus in Tantric sources.

Among other things, the ARINEQA established the model for funding capital and O & M expenditures over five-year periods, created a Dispute Resolution Mechanism for disputes arising from the interpretation, administration, and implementation of the NEQA, the JBNQA, and the ARINEQA, and created a working group to address employment for Naskapis.

In 1942, Moreno teamed up with Miguel M. Delgado and Jaime Salvador to produce a series of low-quality parodies, including an interpretation of Chaplin's The Circus.

Another allegorical interpretation of the film is mentioned briefly in a 1995 article " Japan: An Ambivalent Nation, an Ambivalent Cinema " by David M. Desser.

This interpretation has been taken up by several Christian authors and preachers since then ( such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth ; Grant R. Jeffrey's Armageddon: Appointment with Destiny ; M. R. De Haan's The Signs of the Times ; Tim LaHaye's Are We Living in the End Times?

( b, M ); from the physical interpretation we see that the ray containing U ( a, L ) M ) ψ must ( for any psi ) be the ray containing U (( a, L ).