Second, he notes that human beings delight in a sense of wonder, and this provides a villain with an opportunity to manipulate others.

* Cyc, a long running project with the aim to create a knowledge-based system that provides a huge amount of common sense knowledge

So in some sense it provides a measure of how far the group is from being abelian ; the larger the commutator subgroup is, the " less abelian " the group is.

Set theory has come to play the role of a foundational theory in modern mathematics, in the sense that it interprets propositions about mathematical objects ( for example, numbers and functions ) from all the traditional areas of mathematics ( such as algebra, analysis and topology ) in a single theory, and provides a standard set of axioms to prove or disprove them.

Just as radiative forcing provides a simplified means of comparing the various factors that are believed to influence the climate system to one another, global-warming potentials ( GWPs ) are one type of simplified index based upon radiative properties that can be used to estimate the potential future impacts of emissions of different gases upon the climate system in a relative sense.

The importance of chemically stable humus is thought by some to be the fertility it provides to soils in both a physical and chemical sense, though some agricultural experts put a greater focus on other features of it, such as its ability to suppress disease.

Greenhouse growth of plants in peat bags is often termed hydroponics, but, in the technical sense, it is not because the medium provides some of the mineral nutrients.

In this sense, the trait may enhance comfort levels in intense equatorial climates compared to straight hair ( which, on the other hand, tends to naturally fall over the ears and neck to a degree that provides slightly enhanced comfort levels in cold climates relative to tightly coiled hair ).

Since the main sensory organs are anatomically located on the head, long hair provides the necessary warmth and protection in a cold climate that allows the use of these organs by exposing them to the elements to " sense ", in for example a hunt, yet still providing necessary warmth and protection to sustain prolonged exposure.

An optical mouse would be less susceptible to changes in behavior than a ball mouse with increased friction because the sensor does not rely on mechanical contact to sense movement ; a touchpad provides no added friction with all its buttons held down with a thumb.

" Wisdom " ( prajñā / paññā ), sometimes translated as " discernment " at its preparatory role, provides the sense of direction with its conceptual understanding of reality.

In other words vision is not as simple as light registering on a medium, since the brain has to make sense of the visual data the eye provides and construct a coherent picture of reality.

An occupational therapist provides various means to these patients to restore or maintain their deteriorating performance components by using their residual capacities and capabilities to give them a sense of self-importance and a measure of confidence.

Some have proposed that the number of deaths was influenced by the development of risk compensation, which says that drivers adjust their behavior in response to the increased sense of personal safety wearing a seat belt provides.

The story is interesting, in a broader political sense, and in the context of the rest of Heinlein's writing, because it provides an example of a libertarian author arguing against labor unions – here justified because the union in question is in a vital government-run public service industry on which the broader society as a whole is dependent.

However, unlike some other hard-boiled detectives who have a strong sense of idealism underneath the cynical shell, Hammett never provides a clear statement of Spade's notion of morality.

The muscle tension provides a sense of strength and self-assurance.

In this sense, Fudan provides students with more options for their college studies.

The subfloor builds on those and attaches by various means particular to the support structure but the support and subfloor together always provides the strength of a floor one can sense underfoot.

Greene follows the usual ethos of Hellenistic romance, in which the return of a lost prince or princess restores order and provides a sense of closure that evokes Providence's control.

Nevertheless, while a C program decorated with appropriate checks will be in a sense as robust as the corresponding ML program, those checks will of necessity be dynamic ; ML provides a set of static checks that give the programmer a high degree of confidence in the correctness of the program at compile time.

James Sallis praised Lust Lizard, saying that Moore's novel provides " all the best comic writing, something beyond jokes, caricature, spinning plates and crazy-tilt towers, something intangible that vanishes whenever we try to look directly at it: some sense, perhaps, that we're still able to rescue from the ever-increasing detritus of our culture a decent, simple humanity.

These functions include self-harm being used as a coping mechanism which provides temporary relief of intense feelings such as anxiety, depression, stress, emotional numbness or a sense of failure or self-loathing and other mental traits including low self-esteem or perfectionism.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

We are trying to study a linear operator T on the finite-dimensional space V, by decomposing T into a direct sum of operators which are in some sense elementary.

An optimal policy is one which in some sense gets the best out of the process as a whole by maximizing the value of the product.

Caring for a calf, a pig, or some chickens develops in children a sense of responsibility for work.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may be a profession ) will be called upon to use some of the skills developed and the competence obtained.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

He judged her to be a woman of some pride, though not much sense.

He tried to tell himself that maybe Burton had sobered up enough to get some sense.

The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.

I think everybody is agreed that we need to hear some voice on the national level that would make some sense and in which we would have some confidence in following.

As represented by a spiral, history may, in some sense, be said to repeat itself ; ;

But one does not have to affirm the existence of an evil order irredeemable in that sense, or a static order in which no changes will take place in time, to be able truthfully to affirm the following fact: there has never been justitia imprinted in social institutions and social relationships except in the context of some pax-ordo preserved by clothed or naked force.

The Greeks maintained, until late in their civilization, an almost animistic idea that the statues are in some sense alive.

ANOVA tools could then be used to make some sense of the fitted models,

In the narrower sense, some scholars distinguish " true " alphabets from two other types of segmental script, abjads and abugidas.

Thus, although some things may be certain, they have little to do with Dasein's sense of care and existential anxiety, e. g., in the face of death.

From such uncertainties, that characterize ongoing work, stems the unavailability of a definition of algorithm that suits both concrete ( in some sense ) and abstract usage of the term.

. we want good algorithms in some loosely defined aesthetic sense.

Here are some statements that require the axiom of choice in the sense that they are not provable from ZF but are provable from ZFC ( ZF plus AC ).