The Pistons ' transformation into a championship team was completed with the February 2004 acquisition of Rasheed Wallace.

The intimate interaction between theory and observation at the Institute promotes swift acquisition and transformation of new knowledge, and this leads to improved proposals for more experiments and observations.

Because the term transformation had another sense in animal cell biology ( a genetic change allowing long-term propagation in culture, or acquisition of properties typical of cancer cells ), the term transfection acquired, for animal cells, its present meaning of a change in cell properties caused by introduction of DNA.

Briefing Media acquired UBM plc's UK agriculture and medical general practitioner portfolios for £ 10 million in February 2012 whilst UBM plc announced the acquisition of four tradeshows in Asia for 19. 4 million in the same month, marking UBM plc's continuing transformation into an events and B2B marketing services company

The acquisition of Lionel Trains, Inc. and its September 1995 transformation into Lionel LLC was Wellspring's first investment.

Dulbecco and his group demonstrated that the infection of normal cells with certain types of viruses ( oncoviruses ) led to the incorporation of virus-derived genes into the host-cell genome, and that this event lead to the transformation ( the acquisition of a tumor phenotype ) of those cells.

When Bottom reappears as himself after his temporary acquisition of an ass's head, Bottom promises to write a ballad about his " dream " of transformation.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Economic analysis was never Trevelyan's strong point and the England of the industrial transformation cries out for economic analysis.

This unusual collagen also was shown to undergo a reversible thermal phase transformation.

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.

Among others, John Heath has observed, " The unalterable kernel of the tale was a hunter's transformation into a deer and his death in the jaws of his hunting dogs.

Although the transformation was not instantaneous, baseball has since become fully integrated.

The transformation from the stalemate of the First World War into tremendous initial operational and strategic success in the Second, was partly the employment of a relatively small number of mechanised divisions, most importantly the Panzer divisions, and the support of an exceptionally powerful air force.

The greed for gold led to the discovery of the process for its purification, even though the underlying principles were not well understood — it was thought to be a transformation rather than purification.

This gave way to alchemy and the search for the Philosopher's Stone which was believed to bring about such a transformation by mere touch.

Medical historians have speculated that the transformation to pigs was not intended literally but refers to anticholinergic intoxication.

The first industrial station for the transformation of urban organic materials into compost was set up in Wels / Austria in the year 1921.

The symbol of fire was a cue pointing towards transformation, the chemical variant being the symbol delta, which is also the classical symbol for fire.

In Chomsky's generative grammar framework, the syntax of natural language was described by context-free rules combined with transformation rules.

Constantine's rule, however, validated Diocletian's achievements and the autocratic principle he represented: the borders remained secure, in spite of Constantine's large expenditure of forces during his civil wars ; the bureaucratic transformation of Roman government was completed ; and Constantine took Diocletian's court ceremonies and made them even more extravagant.

Nonetheless, the LDDC was central to a remarkable transformation in the area, although how far it was in control of events is debatable.

Rudolf Carnap was also influenced by Husserl, not only concerning Husserl's notion of essential insight that Carnap used in his Der Raum, but also his notion of " formation rules " and " transformation rules " is founded on Husserl's philosophy of logic.

" Glazer describes how " John's accidental transformation from drifter to national figure parallels Capra's own early drifting experience and subsequent involvement in movie making ... Meet John Doe, then, was an attempt to work out his own fears and questions.

In 1931, the transformation was concluded with the appointment of the first Australian Governor-General, Isaacs, and the first British Representative in Australia, Ernest Crutchley.

Griffith's experiment, reported in 1928 by Frederick Griffith, was one of the first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation.

In his preaching, he often emphasized the Quaker rejection of baptism by water ; this was a useful way of highlighting how the focus of Friends on inward transformation differed from what he saw as the superstition of outward ritual.

The transformation was led by two cities that grew rapidly after 1770.

This was the result of Holden's A $ 16. 5 million transformation of the Woodville, South Australia factory for its production.

A major economic transformation and national industrial development plan led by Minister Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, the main architect of the Gdynia seaport project, was in progress at the time of the outbreak of the war.

The student of ideas and their place in history will always be concerned with the patterns of transition, which are at the same time patterns of transformation, whereby ideas pass from one area of activity to another.

A chemical reaction is a transformation of some substances into one or more different substances.

While most elements are generally viewed as stable, a small amount of natural transformation of one element to another also occurs in the present time, through decay of radioactive elements as well as other natural nuclear processes.

This leads to the clarifying concept of natural transformation, a way to " map " one functor to another.

A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.

The migration involves the database's transformation from one DBMS type to another.

One is his transformation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's idealistic understanding of dialectics into a materialist one, an act commonly said to have " put Hegel's dialectics back on its feet ".

" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.

As the Starchild's transformation of Jupiter occurs ( it becomes engulfed with monoliths ), the crew of the Leonov make good their exit, and Bowman gives one last message via HAL, warning the human race not to attempt future contact with Europa, where the new mini-sun has melted the oceans and ushered in a new era of evolution.

In all such energy transformation processes, the total energy remains the same, and a transfer of energy from one system to another, results in a loss to compensate for any gain.

* Loop fusion, a program-optimization transformation replacing multiple loops with a single one

Changing the coordinates of a point set referring to one datum, so to make them refer to another datum, is called a datum transformation.

Just as one does not judge an individual by what he thinks about himself, so one cannot judge such a period of transformation by its consciousness, but, on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the relations of production.

The transformation is a replacement of one element by another: " The death of fire is the birth of air, and the death of air is the birth of water.

Before that, in two separate experiments, Frederick Griffith and Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty had shown that DNA led to the transformation of one strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae to another that was more virulent.

Since one cannot logically consider these subjects to be both " at the same moment " and " away in time ", an exclusive choice has to be made that defines these two separate domains, B and C. Our reality or domain B is created by the complex, but consistent transformation of A by our biological and mental makeup.

Measurements in one inertial frame can be converted to measurements in another by a simple transformation ( the Galilean transformation in Newtonian physics and the Lorentz transformation in special relativity ).

" It is for this reason that it has been suggested that in order to understand American individualist anarchism one must take into account " the social context of their ideas, namely the transformation of America from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist society ... the non-capitalist nature of the early U. S. can be seen from the early dominance of self-employment ( artisan and peasant production ).

She has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix and is best known as one of the founding members of the X-Men, for her relationship with Cyclops, and for her central role and transformation in the classic X-Men storyline " The Dark Phoenix Saga ".

As he wrote in his " Critique of the Gotha Program ", " between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.

Felix Klein argued in his Erlangen program that one can consider various " geometries " by specifying an appropriate transformation group that leaves certain geometric properties invariant.