UTC is a discontinuous time scale composed from segments that are linear transformations of atomic time, the discontinuities being arranged so that UTC approximated UT2 until the end of 1971, and UT1 thereafter.

Nodes of Ranvier are short fragments of unmyelinated segments of the axon, which are found periodically in between the cells of the myelin sheath.

is an analytical methodology to combine statistical moments from individual segments of a time-history such that the resulting overall moments are those of the complete time-history.

* On the British game show BrainTeaser, contestants are shown a word broken into randomly arranged segments and must announce the whole word.

The most striking feature is the existence of two great lines of depression, due largely to the subsidence of whole segments of the Earth's crust, the lowest parts of which are occupied by vast lakes.

Some approximants resemble vowels in acoustic and articulatory properties and the terms semivowel and glide are often used for these non-syllabic vowel-like segments.

His application of reference lines, a diameter and a tangent is essentially no different than our modern use of a coordinate frame, where the distances measured along the diameter from the point of tangency are the abscissas, and the segments parallel to the tangent and intercepted between the axis and the curve are the ordinates.

This accompanied or facilitated other important evolutionary developments: the bilaterian body plan ; the coelom, an internal cavity that provided space for a circulatory system and, in some animals, formed a hydrostatic skeleton which enables worm-like animals to burrow ; metamerism, in which the body was built of repeated " modules " which could later specialize, for example the heads of most arthropods are composed of fused, specialized segments.

Most class III adenylyl cyclases are transmembrane proteins with 12 transmembrane segments.

When all the individual segments are used, the knife may be thrown away, or, more often, refilled with a replacement blade.

Only broadcast frames are forwarded to all other segments.

Thus, the broadcast domain is the entire inter-connected layer two network, and the segments connected to each switch / bridge port are each a collision domain.

Successive positions every 30 seconds are joined by straight line segments ( the mesh size is 3. 2 µm ).

On the one side, there are vowel-like segments that are not in themselves syllabic but that form diphthongs as part of the syllable nucleus, as the i in English boil.

The endoskeletons beneath are fully functional robots and have been seen operating independently, especially during the future segments of the Terminator movies.

These are composed of stacked segments and finished in the Corinthian order | Corinthian style ( Temple of Bel, Syria )

Those segments that do make it to air are generally edited for time.

The re-used segments, including re-used puzzlers, are not being acknowledged as old material and sometimes new caller material is mixed in alongside the recycled calls.

Examples of this style of computer music can be found in the middle-80's work of David Rokeby ( Very Nervous System ) where audience / performer motions are ' translated ' to MIDI segments.

Because the segments ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) are adiabats, no heat flows into or out of the body during them, and consequently the net heat supplied to the body during the cycle is given by

The eccentricity ( orbit ) | eccentricities of the orbits are represented by segments ( extending from perihelion to aphelion ) with the inclination s represented on the vertical axis.

Seven stripes ( segments ) are used to represent each digit in a basic calculator.

They have 10 – 32 trunk segments, decreasing in size from front to back, and each bears a pair of legs which also carry gills.

Numerous lesser reforms were also introduced, some of which were of great benefit to certain segments of British society, such as the mentally deficient and the blind.

The valley is also settled by descendants of United Empire Loyalists, some of whom established fundamentalist Christian congregations in the area which continue to influence certain segments of society.

The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers speaking a different language ; however the practice also involves the rerecording of audio segments and then synchronizing the recording with the existing footage.

Devo also contributed two songs, " Theme from Doctor Detroit " and " Luv-Luv " to the 1983 Dan Aykroyd film Doctor Detroit, and produced a music video for " Theme from Doctor Detroit " featuring clips from the film with live action segments.

Bridges also overcame the limits on total segments between two hosts and allowed the mixing of speeds, both of which are critical to deployment of Fast Ethernet.

FNC also shows international weather forecasts when Fox Extra segments run short.

Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit also used on Saturday Night Live.

The Gleichschaltung also included the formation of various organisations with compulsory membership for segments of the population, in particular the youth.

Sales in other segments also suffered when competition from Ford intensified, and other Australian manufacturers: Mitsubishi, Nissan and Toyota gained market share.

The wasps, bees, and ants together make up the suborder Apocrita, characterized by a constriction between the first and second abdominal segments called a wasp-waist ( petiole ), also involving the fusion of the first abdominal segment to the thorax.

Dodd also wrote many other songs used in individual segments over the course of the series.

Politics ( from Greek politikos " of, for, or relating to citizens ") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society.

Encrypted messages and responses must also be intercepted, decrypted, and re-encrypted by the attacker using the correct public keys for different communication segments, in all instances, so as to avoid suspicion.

He also has a series of " Ten Minute Film School " segments on several of his DVD releases, showing aspiring filmmakers how to make good, profitable movies using inexpensive tactics.

He was a producer and co-creator of MTV television series Jackass and Jackass: The Movie, also directing some of the segments.

It also includes segments of fictitious silent films starring its protagonists.

Social security may also refer to the action programs of government intended to promote the welfare of the population through assistance measures guaranteeing access to sufficient resources for food and shelter and to promote health and wellbeing for the population at large and potentially vulnerable segments such as children, the elderly, the sick and the unemployed.

The abdomen, also called the opisthosoma, consists of seven segments ( somites ), each covered dorsally by a sclerotosed plate ( tergum ) and also ventrally for segments 3 to 7.

The band's collaboration with the Brothers Chaps also included several Puppet Jam segments with puppet Homestar, and the music for a Strong Bad email titled " Different Town ".

Qiao also has roof hangers built over the segments where double gates are installed, increasing the amount of safety for passing ships.

Data clustering can also be used to automatically discover the segments or groups within a customer data set.