Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

Essentially this imposed two conditions: First, international law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political system in which a number of states were competitive, suspicious, and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; ;

The Barker system is based on the use of the smallest number of interfacial angles necessary for indexing purposes.

Amphibians have a skeletal system that is structurally homologous to other tetrapods, though with a number of variations.

The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.

It lacks the inflections of English, such as tense and number, and does not use articles such as " the ", but its spatial mode of expression has enabled it to develop an elaborate system of grammatical aspect that is absent from English.

An even stronger assertion is that It is impossible by any procedure to reduce the temperature of a system to zero in a finite number of operations.

where < big ></ big > is the number of degrees of freedom divided by two, R is the universal gas constant and n is the number of moles in the system ( a constant ).

In 1171, Absalon issued the " Zealand church law " (), which reduced the number of Canonical Law offenses for which the church could fine the public, while instituting the tithe payment system.

Because this system is based on automatic number identification ( not caller ID ) and meant for phone company technicians, the ANAC system works with unlisted numbers, numbers with caller ID blocking, and numbers with no outgoing calls allowed.

Installers of multi-line business services where outgoing calls from all lines display the company's main number on call display can use ANAC to identify a specific line in the system, even if CID displays every line as " line one ".

Regardless, if one were to call one of these numbers, listen for the number confirmation and hang up, they would in effect be using this system as if it were an ANAC.

In analytic geometry, the plane is given a coordinate system, by which every point has a pair of real number coordinates.

The maximum frame rate depends on the bandwidth of the electronics and the transmission system, and the number of horizontal scan lines in the image.

The television system for each country will specify a number of television channels within the UHF or VHF frequency ranges.

Programmed cell death in plants has a number of molecular similarities to animal apoptosis, but it also has differences, notably the presence of a cell wall and the lack of an immune system which removes the pieces of the dead cell.

A packet voice system can produce this low jitter in a number of ways:

Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.

* Approximate number system, a hypothesized physiological basis for the sense of number

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal ( base 60 ) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal ( base 20 ) system that defined Maya numerals

A voice on the loudspeaker system announced that if the rain let up the performance would resume in ten minutes.

This was the deployment of the Multiple Independently targetable Reentry Vehicle ( MIRV ) system, allowing a single ICBM to deliver as many as ten separate warheads at a time.

Some early digital computers used an electrical model of the common decimal ( base ten ) numeral system to represent numbers internally.

Released with a catalog of 12 launch titles, with an additional ten games announced for 1982, approximately 145 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984.

The decimal numeral system ( also called base ten or occasionally denary ) has ten as its base.

Decimal notation often refers to a base-10 positional notation such as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system ; however, it can also be used more generally to refer to non-positional systems such as Roman or Chinese numerals which are also based on powers of ten.

The number twelve ( that is, the number written as " 12 " in the base ten numerical system ) is instead written as " 10 " in duodecimal ( meaning " 1 dozen and 0 units ", instead of " 1 ten and 0 units "), whereas the digit string " 12 " means " 1 dozen and 2 units " ( i. e. the same number that in decimal is written as " 14 ").

In a duodecimal place system, ten can be written as A, eleven can be written as B, and twelve is written as 10.

The DDC is a system of library classification made up of ten classes, each divided into ten divisions, each having ten sections ( although there are only 99 of 100 divisions and 908 of 999 sections in total, as some are no longer in use or have not been assigned ).

The system is made up of seven tables and ten main classes, each of which is divided into ten secondary classes or subcategories, each of which contain ten subdivisions.

After reading a pamphlet by Doctor James Wilson, who operated a hydropathic establishment with James Manby Gully at Malvern, he stayed there for " some nine or ten weeks ", after which he " continued the system some seven weeks longer under Doctor Weiss, at Petersham ", then again at " Doctor Schmidt's magnificent hydropathic establishment at Boppart " ( at the former Marienberg Convent at Boppard ), after developing a cold and fever upon his return home.

The highway system was supported within a one-acre animated model of a projected America containing more than five hundred thousand individually designed buildings, a million trees of thirteen different species, and approximately fifty thousand motorcars, ten thousand of which traveled along a fourteen-lane multi speed interstate highway.

There are all together ten lines in the MTR system, with a total of 83 railway stations and 68 light rail stops.

To achieve this, John reformed the English feudal contribution to his campaigns, creating a more flexible system under which only one knight in ten would actually be mobilised, but would be financially supported by the other nine ; knights would serve for an indefinite period.

When a 16-year-long civil war ended in 1992, Mozambique's health care system was devastated and one in ten women were dying in childbirth.

Arithmetic is much easier in positional systems than in the earlier additive ones ; furthermore, additive systems need a large number of different symbols for the different powers of 10 ; a positional system needs only ten different symbols ( assuming that it uses base 10 ).

Anthropologists are convinced the system originated from digit counting, as did bases five and ten, twenty being the number of human fingers and toes combined

If the problems of combining cooling with your heating are knotty, it may be cheaper to plan on a completely separate cooling system.

Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.

It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.

Morphophonemic rules may be thought of as joining certain points in the system.

In fact, in the desegregated school system which may have a good many schools with all-Negro population, how can we assure equal opportunity??

These tubes may differ both in the choice of the electron optical system and in the design of the coupling members.

The electron optical system may be either a magnetic or electrostatic one.

The failure of teeth to fit together when closed interferes with normal chewing, so that a child may swallow food whole and put a burden on his digestive system.

If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.

Depending on the system, certain courts may serve as both trial courts and appellate courts, hearing appeals of decisions made by courts with more limited jurisdiction.

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system ( APG ) of 1998 and APG II ( 2003 ) assigned the Alismatales to the monocots, which may be thought of as an unranked clade containing the families listed below.

Archaeologists agree that the purpose of this road system may have changed through time and that the Chaco Road system probably functioned for both economic and ideological reasons.

The random assignment of responsibility to individuals who may or may not be competent has obvious risks, but the system included features meant to obviate possible problems.

One may distinguish between this positional system, which is identical throughout the family, and the precise glyphs used to write the numerals, which vary regionally.

( It may be noted that the current American system places periods and commas outside the quotation marks in these cases anyway.

In his 1972 book American Criminal Justice, Jonathan D. Caplan comments on the Supreme Court decision, noting, " The Alford decision recognizes the plea-bargaining system, acknowledging that a man may maintain his innocence but still plead guilty in order to minimize his potential loss.

The paradigm of a comprehensive system of developed work songs for most tasks may have been contributed by the direct involvement of or through the imitation of African-Americans.

Some natural tolerance to habitual use of ayahuasca ( roughly once weekly ) may develop through upregulation of the serotonergic system.

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

Target acquisition may also be by anyone that can get the information into the artillery system.

If administrative appeal is available, no appeal to the judicial system may be made.

On the continent of Europe among some civil law systems ( i. e. those deriving from Roman law or the Napoleonic Code ), the inquisitorial system may be used for some types of cases.

The rules of evidence are also developed based upon the system of objections of adversaries and on what basis it may tend to prejudice the trier of fact which may be the judge or the jury.