Confucius never stated whether man was born good or evil, noting that ' By nature men are similar ; by practice men are wide apart ' — implying that whether good or bad, Confucius must have perceived all men to be born with intrinsic similarities, but that man is conditioned and influenced by study and practise.

By noting how much error-correction occurred in each received and decoded message, an ALE node can detect the " quality " of the path between the sending station and itself.

By estimating the variable's magnitude and noting the time of observation a visual lightcurve can be constructed.

By the 1920s, the notion that the Hyades shared a common origin with the Praesepe Cluster was widespread, with Rudolf Klein-Wassink noting in 1927 that the two clusters are " probably cosmically related.

Intuitively, represents a small perturbation in the index of T. By noting that and that is always between 0 and 1, can be used to ignore the floor function in the index.

By noting that one can define subtraction of points of an affine space as follows:

Polistuk considered this to be conservative, noting " By 2001, to be among the largest contract manufacturers in this business, you'll need $ 10 billion in annual revenues.

By April 2009, the Estonian media released an article noting that the company was in financial difficulties and had not paid taxes in Estonia.

By late 1940 a number of reports were trickling back from observers in the field who were noting bombers did not appear to be bombing their targets.

By contrast he discussed and commended the arguments in four separate papers by Thomson, noting that collectively these proved that “ Thomson is not a ‘ one-trick pony ’ obsessed with population to the exclusion of other important issues, but a politician who is thinking deeply about our security and ways to ensure a better future ”.

By clicking on the word " List " in the various rows of the Lists column, a list other mountains in the particular range may be vieweed ( noting that some of them will be outside Bavaria or the Bavarian Alps ).

By August 2009, when comparing a Dell netbook to a Dell notebook, CNET called netbooks " nothing more than smaller, cheaper notebooks ," noting, " the specs are so similar that the average shopper would likely be confused as to why one is better than the other ," and " the only conclusion is that there really is no distinction between the devices.

:... a given stage of material complexity is characterised by such and such special features … By accepting this we at any rate confine ourselves to noting the facts … and do not invent entities for which there seems to be no other justification than that something is done in life which is not done in matter.

By noting the differences between Jeshu's sayings as they are recorded in the Gospel of Mark and in Matthew, Miller attempted to decode the author's agenda and to recover the original meaning of Jeshu's sayings.

By 1980, the National Research Council published a report noting that the weight had grown so much that service above would cause unacceptable wear on the Corridor, thereby limiting the new LRC to the same speeds of the Turbo it was meant to replace.

In the Eyrbyggja Saga, it says, “ Ketil Flat-Nose arranged the marriage of his daughter Aud to Olaf the White, the greatest warrior-king at that time in the British Isles .” By noting that Ketil Flat-Nose purposely married his daughter off to a well-known warrior when he got on the bad side of King Harald Fine-Hair brings to light the importance of marrying well to protect your family.

By the end of May, Raffles returned, and while noting the rapid development of the city, realised the need for a formal urban plan to guide its otherwise disorganised physical expansion.

By voice vote, with no objection, the House of Representatives passed a resolution noting that " Mrs. Spellman has been unable to take the oath of office due to a decapacitating illness " and that her position should be declared vacant.

By contrast, a hard conversion or an adaptive conversion may not be exactly equivalent.

By successively dividing out factors x − a, one sees that any polynomial with complex coefficients can be written as a constant ( its leading coefficient ) times a product of such polynomial factors of degree 1 ; as a consequence the number of ( complex ) roots counted with their multiplicities is exactly equal to the degree of the polynomial.

By and large, good moves in the very earliest stages are determined by whether there is a refutation to a move only and few other truly general considerations aside from what exactly constitutes a refutation.

By following the scent of urine they can land on exactly the same branch everytime.

By 1. 2 million years ago, around the time of homo ergaster and homo erectus, the ancestors of all people living today had exactly the same receptor protein as modern Africans.

By definition, radiation produced by the transition between the two hyperfine ground states of caesium ( in the absence of external influences such as the Earth's magnetic field ) has a frequency of exactly 9, 192, 631, 770 Hz.

By sheer coincidence, exactly 100 years later on 07 August 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory rover used its Radiation Assessment Detector ( RAD ) instrument to begin measuring the radiation levels on another planet for the first time.

By land, New London is almost exactly midway between New York City and Boston.

By the fact that ' and ' are injective functions, each a in A and b in B is in exactly one such sequence to within identity, ( as if an element occurs in two sequences, all elements to the left and to the right must be the same in both, by definition ).

By adjusting the intensity of the first field, it was possible to arrange it so that the luminosity of the phosphor had decayed to exactly match that of the second field, so that the two appeared to be at the same level and the film camera captured both. This method came to be preferred.

By default, PmWiki allows exactly one hierarchical level of the pages (" WikiGroup / WikiPage "), but through recipes, it is possible to have a flat structure ( no wiki groups ), multiple nested groups, or sub-pages.

By taking a sideways look at the news and bringing out the absurd in it, the pocket cartoonist provides, if not exactly a silver lining, then at least a ray of hope.

By the end of the 18th century, the ruble was set to 4 zolotnik 21 dolya ( almost exactly equal to 18 grams ) of pure silver or 27 dolya ( almost exactly equal to 1. 2 grams ) of pure gold, with a ratio of 15: 1 for the values of the two metals.

By extrapolating from modern measurements, the date on which the mean solar day would have been exactly 86400 seconds long was about 1820, neatly in the middle of the data ( from 1750 – 1890 ) which Newcomb used to prepare his Tables.

By contrast, as William Stanley Jevons argued, in a barter system there must be a coincidence of wants before two people can trade – one must want exactly what the other has to offer, when and where it is offered, so that the exchange can occur.

By the early 1960s, the urban-rural voter ratio was almost exactly reversed.

By law, travel trailers are limited to of living area, and many models offer exactly that plus any optional slide-outs.

By understanding what a person can no longer do, and correlating this with a knowledge of exactly which parts of the nervous system are damaged, it is possible to infer previously undiscovered functional relationships.

By late 1775, however, their relationship was changing, though it is uncertain exactly when Catherine took a secretary, Pyotr Zavadovsky, as a lover.

By July 1940 the design was complete and by December of that year the first prototypes were completed ; in June 1941, almost exactly a year as specified, the first Churchill tanks began rolling off the production line.

By setting the phase of the complex coordinate to zero, one obtains exactly one-fourth of the Fisher information metric, exactly as above.

By 9: 36 p. m. EDT, the entire Con Edison power system shut down, almost exactly an hour after the first lightning strike.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

By this standard, it is determined that where two stations operating on the same frequency are involved, objectionable interference from station A exists at any point within the service area of station B where station A's signal is of an intensity one-twentieth or more of the strength of station B's signal at that point.

By automobile from New York, for example, you can take a one or two-day tour to Annapolis, Maryland to see the colonial homes and the U.S. Naval Academy ( where you can shoot the dress parade on Wednesdays ) ; ;

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

By the time of Mesalim, whichever dynasty controlled the city of Kish was recognised as šar kiššati (= king of Kish ), and was considered preeminent in Sumer, possibly because this was where the two rivers approached, and whoever controlled Kish ultimately controlled the irrigation systems of the other cities downstream.

By 150 BC, Assyria was under the control of the Parthian Empire as Athura ( the Parthian word for Assyria ) where the Assyrian city of Ashur seems to have gained a degree of autonomy, and temples to the native gods of Assyria were resurrected.

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

By October he had taken a prospective hijacker Mushabib al-Hamlan from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia where they both procured B-1 / B-2 tourist / business visas on October 28 – but Hamlan then decided not to proceed and is thought to have returned to his family.

" By 1928, Fuller was living in Greenwich Village and spending much of his time at the popular café Romany Marie's, where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and Eugene O ' Neill several years earlier.

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

By contrast most of the party's seats were won either due to the absence of a candidate from one of the other parties or in rural areas on the " Celtic fringe ", where local evidence suggests that economic ideas were at best peripheral to the electorate's concerns.

By the early 1910s, Jefferson began traveling frequently to Dallas, where he met and played with fellow blues musician Lead Belly.

By definition, where a director enters into a transaction with a company, there is a conflict between the director's interest ( to do well for himself out of the transaction ) and his duty to the company ( to ensure that the company gets as much as it can out of the transaction ).

By changing Bovril to a non-meat base, Unilever hoped to increase sales there, where people enjoy Bovril stirred into porridge.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

By making these moments where the harmony changes more focal, he enabled powerful dramatic shifts in the emotional color of the music.

By 1574 there were castrati in the Ducal court chapel at Munich, where the Kapellmeister ( music director ) was the famous Orlando di Lasso.

By the 16th century, Cairo also had high-rise apartment buildings where the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple stories above them were rented out to tenants.

By estimating both the clay and temper compositions, and locating a region where both are known to occur an assignment of the material source can be made.

By quickly setting up for the next play ( often within 5 – 10 seconds after the last play despite being afforded 45 seconds ) this hindered the other team's defense from substituting situational players, regrouping for tactics, and, some suggest, increased the defense's rate of fatigue ( This is attributed to the belief that the offense dictates when a play starts so they tend to be more mentally relaxed and prepared for the start of a play where the defense must remain on a higher level of alert before the play starts ).

By the beginning of the Warring States, progress in astronomy and mathematics allowed the creation of calculated calendars ( where intercalary months and days are set by a rule, and not arbitrarily ).

By starting with an inertial frame, where Newton's laws of motion hold, and keeping track of how the time derivatives of a position vector change when transforming to a rotating reference frame, the various fictitious forces and their forms can be identified.

By the end of that decade, calculator prices had reduced to a point where a basic calculator was affordable to most and they became common in schools.