Being a dimensionless quantity, it has constant numerical value in all systems of units.

Being a teaching assistant in a course is required in some programs ; in others it is a paid opportunity awarded a fraction of the students.

Being twice as heavy and almost four times faster than the Tomahawk, the BrahMos has almost 9 times the initial kinetic energy of a Tomahawk missile ( although it pays for this by having only 3 / 5 the payload and a fraction of the range despite weighing twice as much, suggesting a different tactical paradigm to achieve the objective ).

Being a strictly physiological procedure, one may expect from such a study additional information on the nature of the emotional process itself.

Being a versatile denominator in fractions may explain why we have 12 inches in an imperial foot, 12 ounces in a troy pound, 12 old British pence in a shilling, 24 ( 12 × 2 ) hours in a day, and many other items counted by the dozen, gross ( 144, square of 12 ) or great gross ( 1728, cube of 12 ).

Being vascularized, the ossicones may have a role in thermoregulation.

He wrote, " Being thus finally woven, as it were, into the most intimate fabric of the organism, the once novel character can no longer be withdrawn with impunity, and may have become vitally necessary.

All forms of reality may then be considered either modes of that " Being ", or identical with it.

As well as translating " Et cum spiritu tuo " as " And with your spirit ", which some scholars suggest refers to the gift of the spirit the priest received at ordination, in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed " consubstantial with the Father " was used as a translation of " consubstantialem Patri " ( in Greek " ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί "), instead of " of one Being with the Father " ( or, in the United States only, " one in Being with the Father "), and the phrase, formerly translated as " It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven ," was translated literally as " which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins " ( see Pro multis ).

Being " R-like " is an elusive and ambiguous concept phonetically and the same sounds that function as rhotics in some systems may pattern with fricatives, semivowels or even stops in others — for example, " tt " in American English " better " is often pronounced as alveolar tap, a rhotic consonant in many other languages.

Being a flammable gas, the hydrogen given off is dangerous and the reaction of water with the more electropositive of these elements may be violently explosive.

Being exterior to the individual person, social facts may thus also exercise coercive power on the various people composing society, as it can sometimes be observed in the case of formal laws and regulations, but also in situations implying the presence of informal rules, such as religious rituals or family norms.

Being stabbed by a sea urchin may result in painful injury.

Being named for the much-admired founding father James Madison, who had just died, and having streets named for each of the 39 signers of the Constitution, may have also helped attract votes.

For us, phenomenological reduction means leading phenomenological vision back from the apprehension of a being, whatever may be the character of that apprehension, to the understanding of the Being of this being ( projecting upon the way it is unconcealed ).

Being potamodromous, all esocids tend to display limited migration, although some local movement may be of key significance for population dynamics.

Being cut off from the tube map and at the very edge of the metropolis may have meant Thamesmead was not first port of call for immigrants arriving in London.

Being located between Payson and Santaquin, the rural area may give way to more homes in the coming years, but as there is no city water for many, wells are needed which place a limit of one house per of land.

Being marked may even leave a welt or break skin causing bleeding.

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Being wet from rain may result in hypothermia, a potentially fatal condition.

Certainly this is equivalent to a renunciation of a positive conception of the Divine Being ; for negative statements may suffice to prevent erroneous ideas, but a positive knowledge can never be obtained through them alone ( ib.

In addition to the negative attributes, only relative attributes can be predicated of God ; for even these latter, how many soever may be assumed, since they do not apply to the essence of God but only to His relation to the world, produce no modification in the notion of the unity of the Divine Being ( ib.

Being the world's first domed stadium, historic preservationists may also object to the landmark being demolished, although it is not included on the National Register of Historic Places.

Being from outside the city, they may have been unaware of the martial law that had been imposed.

Being able to produce seedless fruit when pollination is unsuccessful may be an advantage to a plant because it provides food for the plant's seed dispersers.

Being the Harbor's sole doctor, Abel was also its Medical Examiner.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

Being is also understood as one's " state of being ," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human ( personal ) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate " being ", or personal character.

Being particularly popular in the British garrison town Poona ( now Pune ), the game also came to be known as Poona.

Being on the curve might still not fully satisfy allocative efficiency ( also called Pareto efficiency ) if it does not produce a mix of goods that consumers prefer over other points.

See also: Great Chain of Being

Being a typical member of the lanthanide series, europium usually assumes the oxidation state + 3, but the oxidation state + 2 is also common: all europium compounds with oxidation state + 2 are slightly reducing.

Being one of the first film hyphenates ( film director, editor and engineer ) Porter also invented and utilized some of the very first ( albeit primitive ) special effects such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

Being a form of visual art, it might also be said that many graffiti artists still fall in the category of the introverted archetypal artist.

* Muggled – Being caught by a non-geocacher while retrieving / replacing a cache ; also, a muggled cache has been removed or vandalized by a non-geocacher, usually out of misunderstanding or lack of knowledge.

He then wrote Being and Nothingness, The Flies, and No Exit, none of which was censored by the Germans, and also contributed to both legal and illegal literary magazines.

Being a part of the male dress, it also has a part in the cultural expressions of the coastal rural regions of Ecuador, such as dances, horsetaming contests and skill exhibitions.

Hence, in The Sophist Plato argues that Being is a Form in which all existent things participate and which they have in common ( though it is unclear whether ' Being ' is intended in the sense of existence, copula, or identity ); and argues, against Parmenides, that Forms must exist not only of Being, but also of Negation and of non-Being ( or Difference ).

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

The " Christ Being " is for Steiner not only the redeemer of the Fall from Paradise, but also the unique pivot and meaning of earth's evolutionary processes and human history.

He also warned that the traditional name, " Christ ", might be used, yet the true essence of this Being of Love ignored.

Being located at the beginning of the navigable part of the St. John River, Indiantown also became a major terminal for vessels departing to ply their trade upriver.

Being the city in which the Italian Mafia historically had its main interests, it has also been the place of several recent well-publicized murders.