Unconcerned with the practical function of his actions, the dancer is engrossed exclusively in their `` motional content ''.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

`` Mr. Gross, your report says that ' our function is investigative and advisory and does not in any way derogate from or prejudice Mr. Bang-Jensen's rights as a staff member.

It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.

Men seem almost universally to want a sense of function, that is, a feeling that their existence makes a difference to someone, living or unborn, close and immediate or generalized.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

It is possible that international organization will ultimately supplant the multi-state system, but its proper function for the immediate future is to reform and supplement that system in order to render pluralism more compatible with an interdependent world.

A primary function is the operation of a Government Bid Center, which receives bids daily from the Federal Government's principal purchasing agencies.

The education function of the Institute is carried on by the staff in the departments of pathology and its consultants.

The responsibility for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function, regardless of rank.

This function is staffed by engineers chosen for their technical competence and who have the title, member of the technical staff.

If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

This is interesting for it combines both the thermodynamic concept of a minimum Gibbs function for equilibrium and minimum mechanical potential energy for equilibrium.

The concept of the strain energy as a Gibbs function difference Af and exerting a force normal to the shearing face is compatible with the information obtained from optical birefringence studies of fluids undergoing shear.

A proton magnetic resonance study of polycrystalline Af as a function of magnetic field and temperature is presented.

Within certain wide limits anatomy dictates function and, if one is permitted to speculate, potential pathology should be included in this statement as well.

When each number of successes X is paired with its probability of occurrence Af, the set of pairs Af, is a probability function called a binomial distribution.

The function f{t} defined in this way is multi-valued.

In some neighborhood in the f-plane of any ordinary point of the graph, the function f is a single-valued, continuous function.

This function is undefined at the point π, since tan ( π / 2 ) is undefined ; we will identify this point with our point ∞.

Thus, the gamma function must be undefined at those points ; it is a meromorphic function with simple poles at the nonpositive integers.

However, they did not make any conclusions regarding the specific function of DNA as hereditary material, and only said that it must have some undefined role.

While all primitive recursive functions are total, this is not true of partial recursive functions ; for example, the minimisation of the successor function is undefined.

In the equivalence of models of computability, a parallel is drawn between Turing machines which do not terminate for certain inputs and an undefined result for that input in the corresponding partial recursive function.

In this case, there is no such maximum as the objective function is unbounded, so the answer is " infinity " or " undefined ".

Unlike a logic gate, which has a fixed function, a PLD has an undefined function at the time of manufacture.

An anonymous function that does not return a value, define a function etc., can be used to force the script to return an undefined type:

In complex analysis, a removable singularity ( sometimes called a cosmetic singularity ) of a holomorphic function is a point at which the function is undefined, but it is possible to define the function at that point in such a way that the function is regular in a neighbourhood of that point.

where ζ ( s ) is the Riemann zeta function ( which is undefined for s = 1 ).

In contemporary use, the term " computable function " has various definitions: according to Cutland ( 1980 ), it is a partial recursive function ( which can be undefined for some inputs ), while according to Soare ( 1987 ) it is a total recursive ( equivalently, general recursive ) function.

When there is a singularity in the function being integrated such that the integral becomes undefined, i. e., it is not Lebesgue integrable, then C does not need to be the same on both sides of the singularity.

A function that is not well-defined is not the same as a function that is undefined.

The rational function is defined for all real numbers, but not for all complex numbers, since if x were a square root of ( i. e. the imaginary unit or its negative ), then formal evaluation would lead to division by zero:, which is undefined.

It is hypothesized that fertility is a function of the social system when the population as a whole is considered and a function of the subsystems when the two-fold division of core families and marginal families is considered.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

-- On the basis of a differentiability assumption in function space, it is possible to prove that, for materials having the property that the stress is given by a functional of the history of the deformation gradients, the classical theory of infinitesimal viscoelasticity is valid when the deformation has been infinitesimal for all times in the past.

This will result in a value Af of the objective function, and when Af is chosen correctly this will give Af, the maximum of the objective function.

It may be that the objective function depends not only on Af but also on Af, as when the cost of the operating policy is considered.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

noise when plotted as a function of anything including time and

The b value compresses the graph of the function horizontally if greater than 1 and stretches the function horizontally if less than 1, and like a, reflects the function in the y-axis when it is negative.

If we define the function f ( n ) = A ( n, n ), which increases both m and n at the same time, we have a function of one variable that dwarfs every primitive recursive function, including very fast-growing functions such as the exponential function, the factorial function, multi-and superfactorial functions, and even functions defined using Knuth's up-arrow notation ( except when the indexed up-arrow is used ).

For example, the function has a horizontal asymptote at y = 0 when x tends both to −∞ and +∞ because, respectively,

But when one or another of those more-or less-likely outcomes becomes manifest the other probabilities cease to have any function in the real world.

This is a protective mechanism for the heart, to compensate for an SA node that is no longer handling the pacemaking activity, and is one of a series of backup sites that can take over pacemaker function when the SA node fails to do so.

In 1927, valence bond theory was formulated and it argues that a chemical bond forms when two valence electrons, in their respective atomic orbitals, work or function to hold two nuclei together, by virtue of effects of lowering system energies.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.