Collapse of centralized control severely weakened the sense of Roman identity in the provinces ; this explains dramatic cultural changes seen in the absence of large numbers of barbarian migrants.

Thus, the absence of regional or proportional representation in the Senate exacerbates a top heavy system of governance, with power centralized in Metro Manila.

In both kinds of installation ( centralized and POU ), the absence of a tank saves energy compared to conventional tank-type water heaters, which have to reheat the water in the tank as it cools off while waiting for use ( this is called " standby loss ").

First, the Visigoths took over in the absence of Roman administrators and established themselves as nobility with some degree of centralized power at their capital, which was finally moved to Toledo.

Berthold Stoppelkamp, head of the Working Group for Economic Security ( ASW ), stated that German companies had a poor security culture making espionage easier, exacerbated by the absence of a " strong, centralized " police command.

Villalpando took an immediate leave of absence from her post while Olivas, who was already on leave from CII to act as director of Hispanic outreach for the Bush-Quayle re-election team, quit the campaign.

When Greek orthography was codified by grammarians in the Hellenistic era, they used a diacritic symbol derived from this half-H shape to signal the presence of / h /, and added as its counterpart a reverse-shaped diacritic to denote absence of / h /.

Tokutei meishō-shu refers to premium sakes distinguished by the degree to which the rice has been polished and the added percentage of brewer's alcohol or the absence of such additives.

In the absence of an FPU, many FPU functions can be emulated, which saves the added hardware cost of an FPU but is significantly slower.

Hooke ’ s 1670 Gresham lecture explained that gravitation applied to “ all celestiall bodys ” and added the principles that the gravitating power decreases with distance and that in the absence of any such power bodies move in straight lines.

Hooke's 1670 Gresham lecture explained that gravitation applied to " all celestial bodies " and added the principles that the gravitating power decreases with distance and that in the absence of any such power bodies move in straight lines.

Its absence in fish and aquatic arthropods is notable, as many have life stations similar to a terrestrial or tetrapod counterpart, or could othewise make use of the added flexibility.

) Raising the roof would explain the absence of plaster behind the wainscoting upstairs, floor seams that suggest a different wall configuration at one point, the unusually high window dormers which can only reasonably have been added at the time of the roof raising and porch addition, the clapboard between the stone and roof, and the high ceilings which contain milled beams on the main floor.

Nevertheless, he added that he felt his absence gave the programme the " shot in the arm " it needed and that it had been " better ever since ".

An added logistical problem resulted from the absence of General Helmuth von Moltke the Younger from the Western Front, which proved to be another crucial ( though not decisive ) factor in the failure of the Schlieffen Plan.

David Canary returned to his former role of Candy ( to offset Hoss's absence ), and a new character named Griff King ( played by Tim Matheson ) was added to lure younger viewers.

In reality though time and profit do not have to be related in direct proportion across different industries ; within a certain industry, the passage of time will allow for value to be added in the production process, in the absence of exploitation, while inefficient firms with inferior production systems may contribute the same value-added to output as superior firms with the same given inputs, but just in a longer period of time.

While trying to purify the enzyme responsible for splicing reaction, he found that intron could be spliced out in the absence of any added cell extract.

It has an extremely bitter taste from its additives and ( in the absence of added odorous substances ) a characteristic odor.

The censored version contains far more endings and new added scenes due to the absence of sexual scenes.

After an absence of regular charter services, Aspro Holidays operated a series of summer charter services during the 1992 – 93 summer season with its in-house airline Inter European Airways to Palma ( Mallorca ) and added service to Heraklion ( Crete ), which was often operated using their larger Boeing 757 airliner.

To counter the absence of boys soccer in the fall, boys tennis and boys ultimate frisbee were added to the fall athletics season.

The storylines were widely affected by the pregnancy of actress Gillian Anderson ; it was decided that Scully would be kidnapped and abducted by aliens, explaining her absence and allowing her to appear comatose two episodes later, which ultimately added more intricacies to the mythology.

This moved all races back one weekend in the season until the first weekend of August, where a race was added at Darlington Raceway, which was put in place after an absence on the series ' schedule in the previous season.

Sometimes a few percent of bicarbonate buffer is added to the mixture to ensure the absence of acidic impurities.

Cardus recounted in his autobiography that he went to the opening overs of the Lancashire v Yorkshire cricket match, left the ground to go to his wedding ceremony, and returned in time to see the pre-lunch overs, to find that Lancashire had added 17 runs to their score in his absence.

Physics had been already added in a video game in 1998 with Jurassic Park: Trespasser, but limited hardware capabilities at the time, and the absence of a middleware like Havok to handle physics had made it a technical and commercial failure.

In his absence, the writing staff rewrote the last quarter of the segment and added the revelation that Flanders is a werewolf.

The things Chtexa revealed to him, added to what he already knew, convinces him that Lithia is nothing less than the work of Satan, a place deliberately constructed to show peace, logic, and understanding in the complete absence of God.

The Lord Chancellor presided over the Council ex officio, but in 1610 James VI decreed that the President of the College of Justice should preside in the Chancellor's absence, and by 1619 the additional title of President of the Privy Council had been added.

Despite the absence of a clear-cut plot ( introduction, complication, climax, dénouement ) one can still, with certain sensitivities in place, derive a perceptible passing of time as we witness, gradually, how Barrytown changes.

Unfortunately, damage to the autonomic nervous system in the form of autonomic neuropathy is a common complication of long-standing diabetes ( especially type 1 diabetes ), so the presence of hypoglycemic unawareness may be a sign of autonomic neuropathy, although the autonomic response to hypoglycemia is already impaired in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus even in the absence of autonomic neuropathy.

so that the absence of the hymen is by no means positive proof that a girl has had sex relations.

In the absence of a truly adequate conceptuality in which the gospel can be expressed, the unavoidable need to demythologize it makes use of whatever resources are at hand -- and this usually means one or another of the various forms of `` folk religion '' current in the situation.

The term " adiabatic " literally means impassable, coming from the Greek roots ἀ-(" not "), διὰ-(" through "), and βαῖνειν (" to pass "); this etymology corresponds here to an absence of heat transfer.

In the third century, this " concern for propriety " begins to be displaced by the concept of ' power ' to do so which means that in the absence of such a man it is " literally impossible " for a Eucharist to be celebrated.

During the two year absence of his father ` Abdu ' l-Bahá took up the duty of managing the affairs of the family, before his age of maturity ( 14 in middle-eastern society ) and was known to be occupied with reading and, at a time of hand-copied scriptures being the primary means of publishing, was also engaged in copying the writings of the Báb.

The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boudica's rebellion solely to the writings of the Romans.

This absence of record means that Æthelstan's reasons for marching north against Constantine in 934 are unclear.

The absence of a stably annealed ends also means that the ligation efficiency is lowered, requiring a higher ligase concentration to be used.

The kind dealt with is when " to believe something " simply means any cognitive content held as true in spite of the absence of proof or even evidence.

Nitrites are produced by a number of species of nitrifying bacteria, and the nitrate compounds for gunpowder ( see this topic for more ) were historically produced, in the absence of mineral nitrate sources, by means of various fermentation processes using urine and dung.

According to other scholars the absence of leaven or yeast means that leaven or yeast symbolizes corruption and spoiling ..

The absence of layer IV in this portion of the temporal lobe means much less interneuronal " buffering " is present.

Energetically, perfect absence of frustration should be non-favorable and atypical for a spin glass, which means that one should add the loop-product to the Hamiltonian, by some kind of term representing a " punishment ".

Huxley had used Blake's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers, and previously in The Perennial Philosophy, once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision.

Due to the absence of contemporary culinary utensils such as the refrigerator, gas stovetops and ovens, the Indigenous resorted to other means to prepare their food.

No matter what its name, demand theory holds that this means that if the unemployment rate gets " too low ," inflation will get worse and worse ( accelerate ) in the absence of wage and price controls ( incomes policies ).

Moreover, the absence of any visible symptoms means that before being successfully diagnosed many patients are told that the pain is " in their head ".

Be aware that the absence of a separate title for a prince of the blood may not always mean no such title exists ; alternatively, the existence of a word does not imply there is also a reality in the linguistic territory concerned ; it may very well be used exclusively to render titles in other languages, regardless whether there is a historical link with any ( which often means that linguistic tradition is adopted )

A nonketotic crisis means: ( 1 ) very high levels of glucose ( sugar ) in the blood ; ( 2 ) absence of ketoacidosis ; ( 3 ) great loss of body fluid ; and ( 4 ) a sleepy, confused, or comatose state.

For this reason, the on-duty chrononaut is typically confined to base as the absence of the chronosphere and / or its pilot is used as a means of determining a Backstep has taken place ( and to prevent civilians from seeing Frank vanish into non-existence when replaced by his future self ).

The presence or absence of an active β-galactosidase may be detected by X-gal, which produces a characteristic blue dye when cleaved by β-galactosidase, thereby providing an easy means of distinguishing the presence or absence of cloned product in a plasmid.

They proceed to name their own local juntas, as a means to exercise government in the absence of the prisoner king.

Telemachus ' name in Greek means " far from battle ", perhaps reflecting his absence from the Trojan War.

The absence of large-bodied water means that Hamilton is colder during the night than places like Auckland and Tauranga, despite its low elevation.