Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

SBA loans, which may be made to small manufacturers, small business pools, wholesalers, retailers, service establishments and other small businesses ( when financing is not otherwise available to them on reasonable terms ), are to finance business construction, conversion, or expansion ; ;

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

These may take the form of temporary charter hire of service buses, or the temporary or permanent conversion and operation of buses, usually of second-hand buses.

A more cynical approach is that some societies may have adopted an excess-margin strategy simply to enhance their value for conversion ".

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

During the conversion from straight-chain form to the cyclic form, the carbon atom containing the carbonyl oxygen, called the anomeric carbon, becomes a stereogenic center with two possible configurations: The oxygen atom may take a position either above or below the plane of the ring.

In addition, a two-point conversion may be scored after a touchdown by similar means.

Excited organic molecules can also relax via conversion to a triplet state, which may subsequently relax via phosphorescence or by a secondary non-radiative relaxation step.

Another unit conversion that may be useful is 1 gauss = 10 < sup >− 4 </ sup > kg C < sup >− 1 </ sup > s < sup >− 1 </ sup >.

Stripping out unit conversion and uniform scaling, the formulae may be written:

The fathers of Christianity included those who had been disciples of Jesus such as Peter, Matthew, James and John, as well as others who may never have met him but were either influenced by accounts of his teachings such as the Gospel writers Mark and Luke, or described having spiritual revelations of his divine nature, such as Paul of Tarsus who actively encouraged the founding of Christian communities or " churches " after his conversion.

On the other hand, ultra-rapid metabolizers ( up to 7 % of Caucasians and up to 30 % of Asian and African populations ) may have increased toxicity due to rapid conversion.

Henotheism is similar but less exclusive than monolatry because a monolator worships only one god ( denying that other gods are worthy of worship ), while the henotheist may worship any within the pantheon, depending on circumstances, although they usually will worship only one throughout their life ( barring some sort of conversion ).

At a conversion efficiency of up to 12 %, the X-ray power may reach ( including filtering and other losses ) 100 kW ; this power would be equivalent to a gamma facility with Co-60 of about 6. 5 MCi.

Jordanes ' conversion may have been a conversion to the trinitarian Nicene creed, which may be expressed in anti-Arianism in certain passages in Getica.

His conversion is commonly assumed to have taken place at Ephesus, though it may have occurred anywhere on the road from Palestine to Rome.

In particular, he felt that the two separate addresses were incongruous and suggested that the first address, occurring before the preamble, may have been inserted by someone familiar with Bede to echo Eadbald's future conversion ( see below ).

When deciding to use lossy conversion without keeping the original, one should remember that format conversion may be needed in the future to achieve compatibility with software or devices ( format shifting ), or to avoid paying patent royalties for decoding or distribution of compressed files.

* Many patients with existing pulmonary disorders may not tolerate pneumoperitoneum ( gas in the abdominal cavity ), resulting in a need for conversion to open surgery after the initial attempt at laparoscopic approach.

Brill and Farishta have recorded that the complete conversion of Afghanistan, Pakistan to Islam was during the rule of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.

Belgian Blue cattle have improved feed conversion ratio ( FCR ) due to lower feed intake compared to weight gain.

The technique allowed detection of PrP < sup > Sc </ sup > after many fewer cycles of conversion than others have achieved, substantially reducing the possibility of artefacts, as well as speeding up the assay.

Thus, Conservative Judaism rejects patrilineal descent and would hold that a child of a non-Jewish mother who was raised as a Reform or Reconstructionist Jew is not legally Jewish and would have to undergo conversion to become a Jew.

The conversion seems to have occurred sometime in the 20th century, although many regions continue to use the traditional millet.

More recent developments have seen the conversion of AVLB and truck launched bridge with launching systems that can be mounted on either tank or truck for bridges that are capable of supporting heavy main battle tanks.

Low-efficiency silicon solar cells have been decreasing in cost and multijunction cells with close to 30 % conversion efficiency are now commercially available.

All the working examples have required some manual or automated process of conversion between the two modes of operation.

Proponents of this view sometimes point to examples of life's actions in the past that have resulted in dramatic change rather than stable equilibrium, such as the conversion of the Earth's atmosphere from a reducing environment to an oxygen-rich one.

Proponents of this view sometimes point to examples of life's actions in the past that have resulted in dramatic change rather than stable equilibrium, such as the conversion of the Earth's atmosphere from a reducing environment to an oxygen-rich one.

* Continental European electric motors used to have dual ratings, using a conversion rate of 0. 735 kW for 1 hp

These factors can also cause hydrocodone and related drugs to have a threshold effect, cause significant lengthening or shortening of the duration of effects in the absence of tolerance, and increase or decrease the de facto conversion ratio between hydrocodone and other drugs like morphine, hydromorphone, and synthetics like levorphanol and methadone.

They also permit dose uniformity, but these systems generally have low energetic efficiency during the conversion of electron energy to photon radiation requiring much more electrical energy than other systems.

Scholars have argued about the precise interpretation of these accounts, but it is agreed that his conversion corresponded with his break from the Roman Catholic Church.

He later said that his true conversion did not happen until some time later: " I cannot consider myself to have been a believer in the full sense of the word, until a considerable time afterwards.

Researchers have ( semi-seriously ) performed lossy compression on text by either using a thesaurus to substitute short words for long ones, or generative text techniques, although these sometimes fall into the related category of lossy data conversion.

At least I had been unable to lay hold on the experience of conversion.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

The older translation " conversion of life " has generally been replaced with phrases such as " a monastic manner of life ," drawing from the Vulgate's use of conversatio as the translation of " citizenship " in Philippians 3: 22.

However, beginning sometime after the Reformation, being born again has been predominantly understood by some Protestants ( of the " anabaptist " branch ) to be an experience of conversion symbolized by water baptism, and rooted in a commitment to one's own personal faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Almost all of the natural environment has been destroyed by conversion to agriculture and logging for firewood, as well as natural soil erosion, all of which has threatened several species of birds and reptiles.

The two-point conversion was not implemented in the NFL until 1994, but it had been previously used in the old American Football League ( AFL ) before it merged with the NFL in 1970.

There has also been discussion about the significance of the selection of the Ethiopian eunuch as being the first gentile conversion: inclusion of a eunuch, representing sexual minority in the context of the time.

The degradation of forest ecosystems has also been traced to economic incentives that make forest conversion appear more profitable than forest conservation.

Drop kicks are optional for a conversion kick after a try has been scored.

All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts, although conversion has traditionally been discouraged since the time of the Talmud.

The Eastern Orthodox Church maintains that Mary Magdalene, distinguished from Mary of Bethany and the " sinful woman ", had been a virtuous woman all her life, even before her conversion.

Over the years various theories of conversion and member retention have been proposed that link mind control to NRMs, and particularly those religious movements referred to as " cults " by their critics.

The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism around 1455, taking the Christian name " Pierre " and the surname " Nostredame " ( the latter apparently from the saint's day on which his conversion was solemnized ).

The main changes are: explicit numeric conversion functions ( e. g. FLOOR and FLT ) must be used, the LOOP and EXIT statements have been eliminated, WHILE statements have been extended, RETURN statements can only be connected to the end of a function, imported variables and structured value parameters are read-only and arrays can be assigned without using COPY.

Paulinus may have been indirectly responsible for Augustine's Confessions: Paulinus wrote to Alypius, Bishop of Thagaste and a close friend of Saint Augustine, asking about his conversion and taking up of the ascetic life.

Energy storage as a natural process is as old as the universe itself-the energy present at the initial formation of the universe has been stored in stars such as the Sun, and is now being used by humans directly ( e. g. through solar heating ), or indirectly ( e. g. by growing crops or conversion into electricity in solar cells ).

It may have been added to mend a break in antiquity or after, or the result of a conversion from an original amphora form ( paralleled by a similar blue-glass cameo vessel from Pompeii )-it was definitely attached to the bottom from at least 1826.