Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

In statistics, the autocorrelation of a random process describes the correlation between values of the process at different points in time, as a function of the two times or of the time difference.

The 13th century Iranian writer al-Kashani describes a more complex process whereby tutiya was mixed with raisins and gently roasted before being added to the surface of the molten metal.

The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma ( in the sense of " truth ") as " beyond reasoning " or " transcending logic ", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of things as they really are.

Nonverbal communication describes the process of conveying meaning in the form of non-word messages.

Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.

The book includes several biographies of saints, and describes the process of the New England settlement.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are not in place, or improving the fairness or effectiveness of existing systems.

The following half reactions describes the process mentioned:

The second half of Exodus marks the point at which, and describes the process through which, God's theophany becomes a permanent presence for Israel via the Tabernacle.

In thermodynamics, the term exothermic (" outside heating ") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system, usually in the form of heat, but also in the form of light ( e. g. a spark, flame, or explosion ), electricity ( e. g. a battery ), or sound ( e. g. burning hydrogen ).

Flocculation describes the process by which the dispersed phase comes out of suspension in the form of flakes.

In thermodynamics, the word endothermic describes a process or reaction in which the system absorbs energy from the surroundings in the form of heat.

This expression describes the principle of a queue processing technique or servicing conflicting demands by ordering process by first-come, first-served ( FCFS ) behaviour: where the persons leave the queue in the order they arrive, or waiting one's turn at a traffic control signal.

However, rather than locating an event or state in time, the way tense does, aspect describes " the internal temporal constituency of a situation ", or in other words, aspect is a way " of conceiving the flow of the process itself ".

Telnet 3270, or TN3270 describes either the process of sending and receiving 3270 data streams using the Telnet protocol or the software that emulates a 3270 class terminal that communicates using that process.

In section one of The Communist Manifesto Marx describes feudalism, capitalism, and the role internal social contradictions play in the historical process:

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

Julian Doyle, the film's editor, has written a book The Life of Brian / Jesus, which not only describes the filmmaking and editing process but argues that Monty Python's film is the most accurate Biblical film ever made.

The fourth ( and newest ) one describes the process of polluting by light.

" Crowley describes this process in his Magick, Book 4:

Here is how Captain Arthur Hastings first describes Poirot:

This is how Agatha Christie describes Poirot in The Murder on the Orient Express in the initial pages:

Herodotus describes how Amasis II would eventually cause a confrontation with the Persian armies.

Alexander's term, " debauched sensory appreciation " describes how the repetition of a circumstance encourages habit design as a person adapts to circumstances or builds skills.

Thucydides describes how Athens's control over the League grew:

According to the majority viewpoint, Acts describes Paul differently from how he describes himself, both factually and theologically.

This describes how the gods revealed to him in a dream the constellations that would be most favorable for the planned construction of a temple.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

In the 4th century BC Plato knew oreichalkos as rare and nearly as valuable as gold and Pliny describes how aurichalcum had come from Cypriot ore deposits which had been exhausted by the 1st century AD.

The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey produced " droplets of false silver ", probably metallic zinc, which could be used to turn copper into oreichalkos.

This metric contains a scale factor, which describes how the size of the Universe changes with time.

Furthermore, it describes how the density of states is changed on entering the superconducting state, where there are no electronic states any more at the Fermi energy.

Ospina describes how the Bacardi family and Company left Cuba after the Castro regime confiscated the Company ’ s Cuban assets on 15 October 1960 ; in particular, in nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts.

The ( n, m ) nanotube naming scheme can be thought of as a vector ( C < sub > h </ sub >) in an infinite graphene sheet that describes how to " roll up " the graphene sheet to make the nanotube.

The definition describes how to produce a light source that ( by definition ) emits one candela.

In his 1806 book Attempt at a Flora ( Försök til en flora ), Retzius describes how chives are used with pancakes, soups, fish and sandwiches.

Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).

On page 11 of his autobiography Casey at the Bat: The Story of My Life in Baseball ( Random House, 1962 ), Casey Stengel describes how his nickname of " K. C.

* Cortical magnification, describes how many neurons in an area of the visual cortex are ' responsible ' for processing a stimulus of a given size, as a function of visual field location

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

In it, he puts forth a new theory about the nature of space and describes how this theory influences thinking about architecture, building, planning, and the way in which we view the world in general.

Passive cable theory describes how voltage changes at a particular location on a dendrite transmit this electrical signal through a system of converging dendrite segments of different diameters, lengths, and electrical properties.

For example, the following line from the Aeneid ( VIII. 596 ) describes the movement of rushing horses and how " a hoof shakes the crumbling field with a galloping sound ":