Given that menudo is time and labor intensive to prepare — the tripe takes hours to cook ( or else it is extremely tough ), and many ingredients and side dishes ( such as salsa ) need to be cut and cooked — the dish is often prepared communally and eaten at a feast ; documents from the Works Progress Administration indicate that in the 1930s, among ( migrant ) workers in Arizona, menudo parties were held regularly to celebrate births, Christmas, and other occasions.

Given this popular understanding of the term, it can also be used illegitimately and inappropriately, as a means to dismiss what are in fact substantial and well-evidenced accusations.

Given their speed and maneuverability, clippers frequently mounted cannon or carronades and were used for piracy, privateering, smuggling, or interdiction service.

Given a simple, binary component feed, analytical methods such as the McCabe-Thiele method or the Fenske equation can be used.

Given these, a new term Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally for the latest part of this epoch since approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence, of human impacts have been found on the Earth and its ecosystems ; these impacts may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species.

Given earlier debates by Christian authors about the existence of Jesus, e. g. in Justin Martyr's 2nd century Dialogue with Trypho, it would have been expected that the passage from Josephus would have been used as a component of the arguments.

Given here is the Greek text of and the Latin text used in the Catholic Latin liturgy.

Given this reliance on literary sources, it is doubtful whether Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation and incubation.

The functional equation was established by Riemann in his 1859 paper On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude and used to construct the analytic continuation in the first place.

Given this is the feast day used by the Greek Orthodox Church, it has been argued that the discovery was probably made on 18 August, the feast day used by the Roman Catholic Church.

Given the inevitable errors in measuring the intensities, and the mathematical difficulties of reconstructing atomic positions from the interatomic vectors, this technique is rarely used to solve structures, except for the simplest crystals.

Given a context pertaining to a specific OSI layer, PDU is sometimes used as a synonym for its representation at that layer.

Given a sinewave generator of very low inherent distortion, it can be used as input to amplification equipment, whose distortion at different frequencies and signal levels can be measured by examining the output waveform.

The quantum circuits used for this algorithm are custom designed for each choice of N and the random a used in f ( x ) = a < sup > x </ sup > mod N. Given N, find Q = 2 < sup > q </ sup > such that < math > N ^ 2

Solomonoff's universal prior probability of any prefix p of a computable sequence x is the sum of the probabilities of all programs ( for a universal computer ) that compute something starting with p. Given some p and any computable but unknown probability distribution from which x is sampled, the universal prior and Bayes ' theorem can be used to predict the yet unseen parts of x in optimal fashion.

Given such possibilities, we can expect TC to be used to suppress everything from pornography to writings that criticize political leaders.

Given the diversity of solid state compounds, an equally diverse array of methods are used for their preparation.

Given the technical limitations of the day, transporting it was no easy feat — on the pedestal are drawn diagrams explaining the machinery that was used for the transportation.

Given a core geometry, the B field needed for a given force can be calculated from ( 2 ); if it comes out to much more than 1. 6 T, a larger core must be used.

Khan also collabrated with Michael Brook to create music for the song " Sweet Pain " used in the movie Any Given Sunday.

Given concern about human rights abuses in Bahrain, this gift attracted controversy, with calls for the jewels to be sold, and the proceeds used for the benefit of the Bahraini people.

" Given the chance to relive his life by switching bodies with " a talentless 20 year-old wannabe rock star with all the looks and charm Rocky used to have ," the series deals with the subsequent soul-searching and reflection over such a decision.

Given that only six vessels were constructed after the Coast Guard takeover, the " LV -" series numbers are most commonly used.

Given that Ramesses VIII only reigned briefly some 25 years after his father ’ s death, it is hardly likely that the decoration of QV 52, with the mwt-nsw ( i. e. king's mother ) title intimately mixed with Tyti ’ s other titles, could have been delayed this late to refer to him.

: Given any family of nonempty sets, their Cartesian product is a nonempty set.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

Given a field F, the assertion “ F is algebraically closed ” is equivalent to other assertions:

* Given an algebraic number, there is a unique monic polynomial ( with rational coefficients ) of least degree that has the number as a root.

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

Given Ealdred's known support of Godwin's family, John of Worcester is probably correct.

* Given any Banach space X, the continuous linear operators A: X → X form a unitary associative algebra ( using composition of operators as multiplication ); this is a Banach algebra.

* Given an R-module M, the endomorphism ring of M, denoted End < sub > R </ sub >( M ) is an R-algebra by defining ( r · φ )( x ) = r · φ ( x ).

Given the other ZF axioms, the axiom of regularity is equivalent to the axiom of induction.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

Given its " blue-water " bias, the navy is even less inclined to become involved in counterdrug operations than the army or air force.

Given any element x of X, there is a function f < sup > x </ sup >, or f ( x ,·), from Y to Z, given by f < sup > x </ sup >( y ) := f ( x, y ).

Given this, the bidding is said to start at the one-level when contracting for a total of seven tricks, at the two-level for eight tricks and so on to the seven-level to contract to take all thirteen tricks.

While tests have been done to support this with fixed pieces of flat metal, the result is inconclusive with respect to the curved armour of the period. Given the following actions of the archers, it seems likely Froissart was correct.

Given a ket of norm 1, the orthogonal projection onto the subspace spanned by is

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

Given points P < sub > 0 </ sub > and P < sub > 1 </ sub >, a linear Bézier curve is simply a straight line between those two points.

Given the then GDP ($ 7. 095 bln ) of the country, military spending is roughly estimated to be about $ 300 million.

Given some encrypted data (" ciphertext "), the goal of the cryptanalyst is to gain as much information as possible about the original, unencrypted data (" plaintext ").

Given the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

Given that many journeys are for relatively short distances, there is considerable scope to replace car use with walking or cycling, though in many settings this may require some infrastructure modification, particularly to attract the less experienced and confident.

Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do ; that every psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon.