An isolated case of quackery??

" If the Tuzuk is reliable on this subject ( and there is no reason to suspect that it is not ), then this was an isolated case.

It can also be used to isolate a worn section of rope, where the knot is tied such that the worn section is isolated in the loop ( which of course does not receive a carabiner nor bear any loads in this case ).

The degree to which life inside a particular monastery is socially separate from the surrounding populace can also vary widely ; some religious traditions mandate isolation for purposes of contemplation removed from the everyday world, in which case members of the monastic community may spend most of their time isolated even from each other.

Itinerant judges will display an image of the Queen and the Canadian flag when holding a session away from established courtrooms ; such situations occur in parts of Canada where the stakeholders in a given court case are too isolated geographically to be able to travel for regular proceedings.

As a result, Slovakia under his rule became partially isolated from the West and the pace of EU and NATO accession negotiations was much slower than in the case of neighboring countries, although Mečiar supported both EU and NATO membership for his country and submitted Slovakia's applications to both organisations.

The Latin locative case applies only to the names of cities and small islands and to a few other isolated words.

:: Example: “ Each case must be scrutinized on its particular facts to determine whether a trial error is harmless error or prejudicial error when viewed in the light of the trial record as a whole, not whether each isolated incident viewed by itself constitutes reversible error .” United States v. Grunberger, 431 F. 2d 1062, 1069 ( CA2 1970 ).

The case of several complex variables is rather different, since singularities then cannot be isolated points, and its investigation was a major reason for the development of sheaf cohomology.

The area is extremely barren, dry and isolated, and anyone wishing to travel the track must carry fresh water, supplies, fuel, and spare parts for their vehicle with them in case of emergencies.

This would ensure that Sweden would not be isolated in case of a war, and that the national finances would improve thanks to French subsidies.

Though smaller in every case except for Fresno than the larger cities of the vast region, these smaller regional centers are often of historical, and perhaps inflated economic importance for their respective size, due to their locations, which are primarily rural or otherwise isolated.

Alberta and British Columbia are the only provinces that are currently free of Dutch elm disease, although, in an isolated case, an elm tree in southeastern Alberta found diseased in 1998 was immediately destroyed.

The positive and negative electrode plates, isolated from each other by the separator, are rolled in a spiral shape inside the case.

There are isolated case reports of rare and idiosyncratic reactions including thrombocytopenic purpura, leucopenia, hepatitis, renal failure, and atrial fibrillation, although it is not clear that these were due to Echinacea itself.

" What happened in Halle should not be seen as an isolated case, but as trendy and fashionable.

They are also totally disconnected ( connected components are points ), scattered ( every non-empty set has an isolated point ; in this case, just take the smallest element ), zero-dimensional ( the topology has a clopen basis: here, write an open interval ( β, γ ) as the union of the clopen intervals ( β, γ '+ 1 )=< nowiki ></ nowiki > for γ '< γ ).

In the case of electrons in solids, chemical potential is often specified " relative to vacuum ", i. e. relative to an electron sitting isolated in empty space.

The Telegram was not an isolated case of German-Mexican collaboration, for Germany had long sought to incite a war between Mexico and the U. S., which would have tied down American forces and slowed the export of American arms to the Allies.

For example, the P180 has the PSU mounted in the bottom of the case in an isolated partition.

In sentences that are both declarative and interrogative, the clause that asks a question is isolated with the starting-symbol inverted question mark, for example: ( In case you cannot go with them, would you like to go with us?

Relationship between isolated sleep paralysis and geomagnetic field influences: a case study.

In one isolated case, the Capgras delusion was induced in a healthy subject by the drug ketamine.

But the scintillating illusion does not occur with an isolated intersection, as in the case of the Hermann grid ; observations suggest that a minimum of evenly spaced intersections with superimposed discs are required to produce the effect.

Furigana may be added by character, in which case the furigana characters that correspond to a kanji are centered over that kanji ; or by word or phrase, in which case the entire furigana word is centered over several kanji characters, even if the kanji do not represent equal shares of the kana needed to write them.

Furigana may also be necessary in the rare case where names are transliterated into kanji from other languages ( e. g. soccer star Ruy Ramos and politician Marutei Tsurunen.

Tō and shima are different readings of the kanji for, the shima is changed to jima in this case.

This is particularly the case for Chinese characters, as in Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji, but can also be used for other non-phonetic spellings, including English as a second language.

The Kita district originally formed the northern part of the Uwa District ; kita ( 北 ) means " north ", though nonstandard kanji ( 喜多 ) are used in this case.

For example, hito-bito, " people ", is usually written 人々, using the kanji for 人 with an iteration mark, 々, rather than 人人, using the same kanji twice, though this latter is allowed, and in this simple case might be used because it is easier to write.

Note that in this later case, the native verb and the borrowed Chinese word with the same kanji have approximately the same meaning, but are pronounced differently.

As with verbs, okurigana is also used to distinguish between readings ( unrelated adjectives with the same kanji ), in which case the okurigana indicate which reading to use.

Similarly, some nouns are derived from verbs, but written with different kanji, in which case no okurigana are used.

A very few gairaigo are sometimes written with a single kanji character ( chosen for meaning or newly created ), in which case this is considered not ateji but rather kun ' yomi, as the character is used for meaning, not sound.

In this case, the recommendation was to write the included part in kanji and the excluded part in kana, e. g. ふ頭 for 埠頭 and 危ぐ for 危惧.

In Shino's case, for instance, the kanji for " taka " in " Moritaka " is also the " kō " on his bead.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.

All units ran much faster than the original TRS-80, at 4 MHz, ( with a software selectable throttle to the original speed for compatibility purposes ) and the display supported upper and lower case, hardware snow suppression ( video ram bus arbitration logic ), and an improved character font set.

IEEE 1541 specifies the lower case character b as the symbol for bit ; however, the IEC 60027 and Metric-Interchange-Format specify bit ( e. g., Mbit for megabit ) for the symbol, a sufficient disambiguation from byte.

If this is the case, the character is called " strong ".

In either case, the letter form then struck a ribbon which was pressed against the paper, printing one character at a time.

In either case, to print a line, precisely timed hammers strike against the back of the paper at the exact moment that the correct character to be printed is passing in front of the paper.

When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

This is a frequent occurrence in sitcoms, where networks may agree to continue a show, but only if a certain character is emphasized, leading other minor characters to become victims of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, while the emphasized character ( usually a Breakout Character ) ( as in the case of Frasier Crane ) develops a more complete back story that ignores previous, more simplified back stories.

He did not care about the abstract life of the race, but the incidents of individual character, the fortunes of a particular family, the relations of real and concrete motives in this or that special case.

The player character starts armed only with a pistol, and brass-knuckled fists in case the ammunition runs out, but larger weapons can be picked up: these are a chainsaw, a shotgun, a chaingun, a rocket launcher, a plasma rifle, and finally the immensely powerful BFG 9000.

For example, when mapping character strings between upper and lower case, one can use the binary encoding of each character, interpreted as an integer, to index a table that gives the alternative form of that character (" A " for " a ", " 8 " for " 8 ", etc .).

If each character is stored in 8 bits ( as in ASCII or ISO Latin 1 ), the table has only 2 < sup > 8 </ sup > = 256 entries ; in the case of Unicode characters, the table would have 17 × 2 < sup > 16 </ sup > = 1114112 entries.

However, Ma strongly denied any wrongdoing and labelled the controversy a case of ‘ character assassination ’.

In the case of handwriting analysis, for example, this might be a single handwritten character, an entire handwritten word, or an entire line of handwriting.

Ba does not mean " soul " in the western sense, and has to do with power, reputation, force of character, especially in the case of a god.

Curiously, in the case of Civilization, a player's chosen historical character is the same throughout the course of the game despite the fact that a campaign can last several hundred years before and after the lifetime of the real historical persona.

" However, In proposing the thought experiment involving the fictional character, Robinson Crusoe, a captain shipwrecked on a desolate island with no other inhabitant, Wittgenstein shows that language is not in all cases a social phenomenon ( although, they are for most case ); instead the criterion for a language is grounded in a set of interrelated normative activities: teaching, explanations, techniques and criteria of correctness.