Because the bobbin-to-cone winding process is a relatively high-cost operation for the mill, the almost complete automation provided by the Uniconer can mean important economies in textile production, at the same time upgrading quality.

This will mean that every time there's an increase in hospital rates your cost will go up in like manner.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

They speak of the work of Christ as the bestowal of incorruptibility, which can mean ( though it does not have to mean ) deliverance from time and history.

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

Then we can express the variables as the sum of the ( time averaged ) mean field () that varies in space and a small fluctuating field () that varies in space and time.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

In the mean time Da Ponte would begin work with Mozart on Le nozze di Figaro ( The Marriage of Figaro ).

Thus, over time, the expression " a cappella " ( Italian for " in the manner of the chapel ") came to mean exclusively vocal music in contradistinction to the spreading use of the organ in cathedrals.

) Then X < sub > i </ sub > is the value ( or realization ) produced by a given run of the process at time i. Suppose that the process is further known to have defined values for mean μ < sub > i </ sub > and variance σ < sub > i </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > for all times i. Then the definition of the autocorrelation between times s and t is

However, for many acts the " off season " does not mean a period of inactivity, they use time for maintenance and practice.

In the mean time, Fátimih lived in the home of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ’ s uncle Mírzá Músá.

" In the mean time, Marlborough invested the elaborate fortress of Menin which, after a costly siege, capitulated on 22 August.

At the same time, however, he can use this term to mean the glorious future destiny of a truly comprehensive " Israel ".

This expresses the mean squared displacement in terms of the time elapsed and the diffusivity.

The second part of Einstein's theory relates the diffusion constant to physically measurable quantities, such as the mean squared displacement of a particle in a given time interval.

By measuring the mean squared displacement over a time interval along with the universal gas constant, the temperature, the viscosity, and the particle radius, Avogadro's number can be determined.

It might mean again or a second time or from above, which would explain Nicodemus ' confusion.

The astronomer's mean tropical year which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices is currently 365. 24219 days, slightly shorter than the average length of the year in most calendars, but the astronomer's value changes over time, so William Herschel's suggested correction to the Gregorian calendar may become unnecessary by the year 4000.

The small amount of milk available for the calf under such systems may mean that it takes a longer time to rear, and in subsistence farming it is therefore common for cows to calve only in alternate years.

The historical associations of maleness with power and femaleness with submission and frivolity mean that in the present time a woman dressing in men's clothing and a man dressing in women's clothing evoke very different responses.

It was typically an extremely prized commodity as it was expensive and time consuming to produce and could mean the difference between life and death in a battle.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

This would mean the government of Niger would carry out scheduled parliamentary elections in September, two months early, and a referendum on a new constitution before Presidential elections which can take place no later than December, assuming the 1999 constitution is in effect.

Headed and mainly funded by Manuel Elizalde, Jr., eldest son of a Filipino millionaire, but sometimes funded by the Philippine government under President Ferdinand Marcos, PANAMIN has been taken to mean both Private Association for National Minorities or Presidential Arm for National Minorities.

Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.

Some scholars have suggested that Amos ’ s reference to Edom is symbolic of all nations who were once enemies of Israel and not meant to literally mean Edomites in the flesh.

The 1961 official reference put it this way: " The origin and rate of ephemeris time are defined to make the Sun's mean longitude agree with Newcomb's expression "

The reference surface for orthometric heights is the geoid, an equipotential surface approximating mean sea level.

The level is used for determining height differences and height reference systems, commonly referred to mean sea level.

Paul Verhoef, the then current satellite navigation program manager at the European Commission indicated that this limited funding would have serious consequences commenting at one point " To give you an idea, that would mean that for three weeks in the year you will not have satellite navigation " in reference to the currently proposed 18 vehicle constellation.

This makes the geometric mean the only correct mean when averaging normalized results, that is results that are presented as ratios to reference values.

In this scenario, using the arithmetic or harmonic mean would change the ranking of the results depending on what is used as a reference.

With reference to the term " Globish ", Robert McCrum has used this to mean " English as global language ".

This is equivalent to setting the mean and variance of the reference distribution equal to the sample estimates, and it is known that using these to define the specific reference distribution changes the null distribution of the test statistic: see below.

Scorsese changed the title from Season of the Witch to Mean Streets, a reference to Raymond Chandler's essay " The Simple Art of Murder ", where he writes, " But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

The phrase, which had previously been limited to regional usage with various possible references, was co-opted and popularized to mean " Old Kinderhook ", a reference to Van Buren based on the name of his home village in New York.

Everybody understands what we mean when we talk about playing a game, and we can even clearly identify and correct inaccurate uses of the word, all without reference to any definition that consists of necessary and sufficient conditions for the application of the concept of a game.

As a jocular reference, the phrase “ not ready for prime time ” has come to mean “ not quite perfected ”.

The tropical year in the 1960 definition was not measured but calculated from a formula describing a mean tropical year that decreased linearly over time, hence the curious reference to a specific instantaneous tropical year.

This testimony was extremely dubious: witnesses Richard Southwell and Mr. Palmer both denied having heard the details of the reported conversation, and as More himself pointed out :< Blockquote > " Can it therefore seem likely to your Lordships, that I should in so weighty an Affair as this, act so unadvisedly, as to trust Mr. Rich, a Man I had always so mean an Opinion of, in reference to his Truth and Honesty, ... that I should only impart to Mr. Rich the Secrets of my Conscience in respect to the King's Supremacy, the particular Secrets, and only Point about which I have been so long pressed to explain my self?

These data are compared to the reference ( or datum ) level usually called mean sea level.

Thus, in traditional use, the term “ free ” was attached to Gibbs free energy, i. e., for systems at constant pressure and temperature, or to Helmholtz free energy, i. e., for systems at constant volume and temperature, to mean ‘ available in the form of useful work .’ With reference to the Gibbs free energy, we add the qualification that it is the energy free for non-volume work.

Note that typically, the reference point for jitter is defined such that the mean jitter is 0.

* the difference between the mean of the measurements and the reference value, the bias.

Castile's name is thought to mean " land of castles ", in reference to the castles built in the area to consolidate the Christian Reconquest from the Moors.

Perhaps the earliest reference to the concept comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: " I begin to believe in only one civilizing influence — the discovery one of these days of a destructive agent so terrible that War shall mean annihilation and men's fears will force them to keep the peace ".