For comparison, Sirius has an absolute magnitude of 1. 4 which is greater than the Sun's absolute visual magnitude of 4. 83 ( it actually serves as a reference point ).

His application of reference lines, a diameter and a tangent is essentially no different than our modern use of a coordinate frame, where the distances measured along the diameter from the point of tangency are the abscissas, and the segments parallel to the tangent and intercepted between the axis and the curve are the ordinates.

where R < sub > i </ sub > is the position vector of particle i from the reference point, m < sub > i </ sub > is its mass, and V < sub > i </ sub > is its velocity.

As a point of reference, the OPS for all of Major League Baseball in 2008 was. 749.

* Benchmark ( surveying ), a point of reference for a measurement

A point of reference for clinical engineers would be the catalogue published by the American Society for Hospital Engineering in the Hospital Engineering Reference Series called Maintenance Management for Medical Equipment.

However, some sources point out that this is a modern saying used by the Chinese from other regions in reference to Cantonese culinary habits.

The individual, rather than the community or institutions, was the point of reference.

To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

# The best vantage point for understanding behavior is from the internal frame of reference of the individual.

Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or just axis of the system, and the point where they meet is its origin, usually at ordered pair ( 0, 0 ).

Bokmål is based on Danish unlike the other Norwegian language, Nynorsk, which is based on the Norwegian dialects, with Old Norwegian as an important reference point.

In further cases of the use of the term, " the reference to the conceptual homeland – to the ' classical ' diasporas – has become more attenuated still, to the point of being lost altogether ".

The second reference point was selected as the reading of the thermometer when it was placed in still water when ice was just forming on the surface.

In his Logical Investigations, Husserl mentions Frege only twice, once in a footnote to point out that he had retracted three pages of his criticism of Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic, and again to question Frege's use of the word Bedeutung to designate " reference " rather than " meaning " ( sense ).

For practical purposes, it is useful to define a common reference point to which potentials may be expressed and compared.

This reference point naturally takes the name earth or ground.

In other words, when you pass a sequence to a routine, initially only a reference to it is passed, but at the point the routine modifies this sequence parameter the sequence is copied and the routine updates only a copy of the original.

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

However, in principle, since the same electronegativities should be obtained for any two bonding compounds, the data is in fact overdetermined, and the signs are unique once a reference point is fixed ( usually, for H or F ).

Although enthalpy is commonly used in engineering and science, it is impossible to measure directly, as enthalpy has no datum ( reference point ).

Starting with Hart, a great deal of effort has gone into developing scientific theories about, and possible models of, extraterrestrial life, and the Fermi paradox has become a theoretical reference point in much of this work.

Its melting point is used as a temperature reference point.

Gallium's melting point ( mp ) is one of the formal temperature reference points in the International Temperature Scale of 1990 ( ITS-90 ) established by BIPM.

According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of 2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in history ; this is referred to as the arrival of the " Urban Millennium " or the ' tipping point '.

The Human Development and Capabilities Approach, The Millennium Development Goals, and other credible approaches / goals point to empowerment and participation as a necessary step if a country is to overcome the obstacles associated with poverty and development.

The southernmost point of the route is at The Flourish, Cardiff Bay, outside the Wales Millennium Centre.

At this point the main route of the Taff was around Cardiff Castle and down what is now Westgate Street, with the lands where Cardiff Arms Park and the Millennium Stadium are now sited tidal flats which were prone to flood.

As Hornsby is both an originating and terminating point for some services, on 10 July 2003 the communications system in a Millennium Train failed because the train's software could not compute that the origin and destination of the service had the same name.

Robert and MaryAnne divorced in 1974, at which point MaryAnne and several original members of the group continued as the Foundation Church of the Millennium, which later became Best Friends Animal Society.

The canal was still at this point owned by a private company, and the Millennium Commission would not make grants to a scheme which was for private profit, rather than public benefit.

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, felt that the character was " used so perfunctorily since her introduction " that her appearances added little to the episodes she featured in, describing her as a " bad parody " of the earlier characters Deep Throat and X. Debra Warlick, writing for Cinefantastique, felt that Holden's acting in " One Son " was " heart breaking ", but found that she had " unfortunately " been used simply to convey a plot point to other characters.

After the opening of Millennium Line in 2002, the station became a major transfer point between the two SkyTrain lines and the regional bus connections moved north along Millennium Line to Braid and Lougheed Town Centre Stations.

While it's unclear how Don reacted, Charlie spent the last three months of his mother's life isolated in the garage, incessantly working on one of the Millennium Prize Problems, specifically P vs NP ; it's a point of contention between the brothers.

at the half-way point towards 2015 ( author's note: the deadline for the Millennium Goals ), the gaps are daunting: 80 million children ( 44 million of them girls ) are out of school, with marginalized groups ( 26 million disabled and 30 million conflict-affected children ) continuing to be excluded.

Development to this point ( 1950 ) was mainly concentrated along the major roads and villages in the township.

A reference point for this new economics can be found in James Robertson's A New Economics of Sustainable Development, and the work of thinkers and activists, who participate in his Working for a Sane Alternative network and program.

Expenditure on the IRRF projects could be seen as delayed by the projects being in their planning and early site preparation stages and it could be said that it is not surprising that little money had been disbursed at that point, or that so much of the Development Fund for Iraq had been expended as that fund was the primary source of revenue the Iraqi government had.

At one point he was also appointed as an adviser to the State Film Development Corporation.

Development reached its highest point in the 1980s, when the metal factory had more than 18, 000 workers and production was over one million tons per year.

Recent talks led by the United Nations Development Programme in Cambodia – International Oil and Gas Conference on fueling poverty reduction – point out the need for better education of state officials and energy cadres linked to a possible Sudden Wealth Fund to avoid the Resource curse ( Paradox of plenty ).

The term " computational neuroscience " was introduced by Eric L. Schwartz, who organized a conference, held in 1985 in Carmel, California at the request of the Systems Development Foundation, to provide a summary of the current status of a field which until that point was referred to by a variety of names, such as neural modeling, brain theory and neural networks.

University of Rhode Island Diving Safety Officer Phillip Sharkey and ORCA EDGE's Director of Research and Development, prepared a 12 point proposal that they invited the Diving Safety Officers ( DSO ) in attendance to discuss at an evening closed meeting.

By this time, however, Ritz and his colleagues were already on the point of commercial independence, having established the Ritz Hotel Development Company, for which Escoffier set up the kitchens and recruited the chefs, first at the Paris Ritz ( 1898 ), and then at the new Carlton Hotel in London ( 1899 ), which soon drew much of the high-society clientele away from the Savoy.

René led his country to the point of being the most developed country in Africa, as measured by the Human Development Index, and helped build one of the continent's highest gross domestic products per capita.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD, an inter-governmental organization ) model treaty is often used as such a starting point.

The final years of the McKenna administration saw an agreement signed with a private consortium called Maritime Road Development Corporation ( led by former provincial Liberal leader and former federal Minister of Transport Douglas Young ) to privately finance and build a toll highway to carry the Trans-Canada Highway ( Route 2 ) in a new alignment from a point west of Fredericton to a point on the existing TCH west of Moncton at River Glade.

At this point it passes the proposed start point of the Carlisle Northern Development Route, where construction work commenced in 2009.

In addition, some conservatives cite an informal comment by Mikhail Gorbachev that the document is " a kind of Ten Commandments " and point to the fact that at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, a copy of the document was placed symbolically in an " Ark of Hope " — an independent project by the American artist Sally Linder.

The high point of the Summit was the joint signing of the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection, and Development of Children and a Plan of Action on September 30, 1990.

Development from that point focused out on the wider areas of Parr and Sutton that were largely undeveloped until that point.

At some point during his collegiate career, he also spent at least one season with the Central Jersey Riptide in the Premier Development League.

The Malam Jabba Ski Resort, owned by the Pakistani Tourism Development Corporation, had a ski slope of about 800m with the highest point of the slope 2804 m ( 9200 ft ) above sea level.

The Toronto Economic Development Corp ( TEDCO ) was not properly consulted by the American interests who combined with the Mayor saw little political favour in seeing the project through from the City of Toronto's point of view.