In this painting, Altdorfer places a large tree that is cut off by the margins at the center of the landscape, making it the central axis and focus within the piece.

Yet another equivalent definition of the ellipse is that it is the set of points that are equidistant from one point in the plane ( a focus ) and a particular circle, the directrix circle ( whose center is the other focus ).

The distance from the center C to either focus is f

The radius of the directrix circle is greater than the distance between the center of this circle and the focus ; thus, the focus is inside the directrix circle, as is the entire ellipse.

In general relativity, the apsides of any orbit ( the point of the orbiting body's closest approach to the system's center of mass ) will precess — the orbit is not an ellipse, but akin to an ellipse that rotates on its focus, resulting in a rose curve-like shape ( see image ).

First, he found that the orbits of the planets in our solar system are elliptical, not circular ( or epicyclic ), as had previously been believed, and that the Sun is not located at the center of the orbits, but rather at one focus.

In the elliptical orbit, the center of mass of the orbiting-orbited system is at one focus of both orbits, with nothing present at the other focus.

The individual, rather than the collective, becomes the focus of rights and responsibilities, the center of public and private rituals holding the society together-a function once performed by the religion.

The organisation is mission center for several key current missions ( Kepler Mission, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite ( LCROSS ) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA )) and a major contributor to the '" new exploration focus '" as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle and Ares I crew launch vehicle projects.

This neighborhood will also be the focus for a long range plan to improve and redesign the center of the city.

Although many now attribute the rise of the shopping mall to the decline of the American downtown core, Rouse's focus at the time was on the introduction of malls as a form of town center for the suburbs.

His company became an active developer and manager of shopping center and mall properties, even as he shifted focus to new projects which eventually included planned communities and festival marketplaces.

The focus is an area that extracts information from the visual scene with a high-resolution, the geometric center of which being where visual attention is directed.

This window is also interesting and unique in that the focus of the tracery was shifted away from the center of the circle and instead placed in other sections.

" There are a few nouns that use the locative instead of a preposition: domus becomes domī ( at home ), rūs becomes rūrī ( in the country ), humus becomes humī ( on the ground ), militia becomes militiae ( in military service, in the field ), and focus becomes focī ( at the hearth ; at the center of the community ).

Martin said of the new album: " I really needed to go back to focus, to my center, to the beginning.

It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and railroading.

They generally avoid fragile center focus arrangements in favor of independent focus, which also makes for easier, more effective weatherproofing.

In modern celestial mechanics this focus is also the center of attraction, which is usually the center of mass of the system.

The College of Medicine has since evolved into the center for cardiothoracic surgery and tropical cardiology excellence for the West Africa region with the siting of the National Cardiothoracic Center at UNTH Enugu.

The hospital is an acute-care medical center with women's and children's care, surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, gerontology, psychiatry, emergency services, and community health education.

The hospital, which opened in 1915, is a Level 1 trauma center, recognized for clinical excellence and innovations in the fields of cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, sports medicine, organ transplants, and treatment for prostate, breast and lung cancers.

Health Ratnapura provincial hospital is the largest hospital in the Sabaragamuwa province Which is equipped with two surgical units two medical units, an orthopedic unit, two gyn and obs units two paediatrics units an ENT unit, An neurology unit, A rheumatology unit, a dermatology unit, Psychiatric unit and a cardiology unit. It also a post graduate training center.

In 2005 a cardiology center was opened at the hospital.

The tremendous emphasis on the 5 in the Lo Shu square -- for purely mathematical reasons -- and the fact that this number so neatly symbolized the heart and center of the universe, could well explain why the Old Chinese seem to have so revered the number 5, and why they put so much stress on the concept of Centrality.

Then, without knowing why, she found herself running from them, fleeing wildly through the trees, dodging her own shadows until she came to a little hollow in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center behind which she knelt and hid, listening to the madness of her heart and wanting for once to cry.

During the Weimar era, Berlin became internationally renowned as a center of cultural transformation, at the heart of the Roaring Twenties.

The side channels run parallel to the center channel, except at locations such as the navel, heart, throat and crown ( i. e. chakras ) where the two side channels twist around the central channel.

Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act in a manner similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement.

The Sparrow Tower was finished January 2008 and includes but is not limited to: a dedicated pediatric emergency room ( the only one in the region ), the largest adult emergency room in the region, state-of-the-art operating rooms, a rooftop helipad, oncology center, heart and vascular center and orthopedic department.

Aristotle, however, believed the heart was the center of intelligence and that the brain regulated the amount of heat from the heart.

By this time it had developed into the busiest traffic center in all of Europe, and the heart of Berlin's nightlife.

In 2012, Stanford opened the Stanford Center at Peking University, a just-under 400, 000-square-foot, three-story research center at the heart of Peking University, consistently ranked as the best university in China.

Start from that heart in the center and go three steps in a straight line in any one of the eight directions, north, south, east or west, or on the bias, as the ladies say, northeast, northwest, southeast or southwest.

* Interestingly, he also addressed the controversial issue of the heart being the center of the soul.

* Vesalius believed that the brain and the nervous system are center of the mind and emotion in contrast to the common Aristotelian belief that the heart was the center of the body.

* Lastly, the place of the dance, Chidambaram, which is portrayed as the center of the universe, is actually within the heart.

His best-known work is probably the sculpture " The Destroyed City " ( 1951-1953 ), represents a man without a heart, a memorial to the destruction of the center of the Dutch city Rotterdam in 1940 by the German Luftwaffe.

It notes that the heart is the center of the blood supply, with vessels attached for every member of the body.

A former major mechanical, food industry and textile manufacturing centre as well as a retail and finance center, Lille forms the heart of a larger conurbation, regrouping Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve d ' Ascq, which is France's 4th-largest urban conglomeration with a 1999 population of over 1. 1 million.

Among the lesser known facets of Hundertwasser's personality is his commitment to constitutional monarchy: < BLOCKQUOTE > Austria needs a parent center, consisting of perennial higher values ​​- the one no longer dares to speak-like beauty, culture, internal and external peace, faith, abundance of the heart [...] Austria needs an emperor, who is subservient to the people.

The main causes of death are ventricular arrhythmias and asystole, paralysis of the heart or of the respiratory center.

When it is mature, it forms a “ piña ” or heart in the center from which juice is extracted to convert into mezcal.