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In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.
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view and increasing
From the manufacturer's point of view, the increasing cost of advertising and promotion is a very real problem to be faced in the sixties.
In municipal systems we tend to view what is called positivism as fundamentally a movement to democratize policy by increasing the power of parliament -- the elected representatives -- at the expense of the more conservative judiciary.
* His view of the second coming of Christ is also unusual ; he suggested that this would not be a physical reappearance, but that the Christ being would become manifest in non-physical form, visible to spiritual vision and apparent in community life for increasing numbers of people beginning around the year 1933.
Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.
In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.
However, in more recent years, since the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, with the increasing influence of Monetarist schools of thought in the 1980s, and particularly in the face of large sustained trade imbalances, these concerns — and particularly concerns about the destabilising effects of large trade surpluses — have largely disappeared from mainstream economics discourse and Keynes ' insights have slipped from view.
Although nominally a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the rich should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by the middle class.
In 2004, Botanical Society of America's Plant Science Bulletin disputed Dr. Temple's research as flawed which published evidence as to why the dodo's extinction did not directly cause the increasing disappearance of young trees including suggestion that tortoises would have been more likely to disperse the seeds than dodo hence discrediting Temple's view as to the dodo and the tree's sole survival relationship.
The meta-language capabilities of literate programming are also claimed to facilitate thinking in general, giving a higher " bird's eye view " of the code and increasing the number of concepts the mind can successfully retain and process.
From a thermodynamics point of view, at the melting point the change in Gibbs free energy () of the material is zero, but the enthalpy () and the entropy () of the material are increasing ().
However within many religions there are also people who view the two sexual orientations positively, and many religious denominations may bless same-sex marriages and support LGBT rights, and the amount of those that do are continuously increasing around the world as much of the developed world enacts laws supporting LGBT rights.
His thinking changed from the view that species formed in isolated populations only, as on islands, to an emphasis on speciation without isolation ; that is, he saw increasing specialisation within large stable populations as continuously exploiting new ecological niches.
In recent years, experimental ceramic blades have been manufactured and tested in gas turbines, with a view to increasing Rotor Inlet Temperatures and / or, possibly, eliminating aircooling.
In the Qur ' anic view, zakat is a way to redistribute the wealth, thus increasing the role of charity in the economy with a particular interest in the poor and the dispossessed.
From a thermodynamics point of view, at the melting point the change in Gibbs free energy ( ΔG ) of the material is zero, but the enthalpy ( H ) and the entropy ( S ) of the material are increasing ( ΔH, ΔS > 0 ).
This sacred Council has several aims in view: it desires to impart an ever increasing vigor to the Christian life of the faithful ; to adapt more suitably to the needs of our own times those institutions which are subject to change ; to foster whatever can promote union among all who believe in Christ ; to strengthen whatever can help to call the whole of mankind into the household of the Church.
Raeder took the view that because of the increasing number of naval " incidents " in the second half of 1941 between U-boats and US ships guarding convoys to Britain, that the best thing to do was to declare war on America in order to end all of the restrictions on fighting the U. S. Navy.
Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death worldwide, with increasing prevalence in adults and children, and authorities view it as one of the most serious public health problems of the 21st century.
This, combined with cultural liberalization and the increasing remoteness of the possibility of retaking mainland China, led to a cultural and political movement which emphasized a Taiwan-centered view of history and culture rather than one which was China-centered or even, as before 1946, Japan-centered.
Though from the point of view of an increasing majority of archaeologists, there were always two distinct cultures in Canaan, a strong and prosperous northern kingdom and a weaker and poorer southern one, in the Biblical account the Israelite tribes were initially united in a single kingdom, and only later fractured into the northern and southern kingdoms ; this fracture is blamed by the Bible on the jealousy of Ephraim over the growing power of Judah.
The zoom-out continues ( at a rate of one power of ten per 10 seconds ), to a view of 100 meters ( 10 < sup > 2 </ sup > m ) ( where we see they are in Burnham Park, near Soldier Field, then 1 kilometer ( 10 < sup > 3 </ sup > m ) ( where we see the entirety of Chicago, and so on, increasing the perspective and continuing to zoom out to a field of view of 10 < sup > 24 </ sup > meters, or the size of the observable universe.
The key driver to gain benefit from the understanding of the workflow process in a business context is that the throughput of the workstream path is modelled in such a way as to evaluate the efficiency of the flow route through internal silos with a view to increasing discrete control of uniquely identified business attributes and rules and reducing potential low efficiency drivers.
But when other companies view the success of this approach, they also enter the market with similar practices, increasing competition and reducing demand.
view and shortage
An extended search for an anchorage at King Edward VII Land proved equally fruitless, so Shackleton was forced to break his undertaking to Scott and set sail for McMurdo Sound, a decision which, according to second officer Arthur Harbord, was " dictated by common sense " in view of the difficulties of ice pressure, coal shortage and the lack of any nearer known base.
On 19 September, with Karluk ice-bound and largely stationary, Stefansson announced that in view of the shortage of fresh meat and the likelihood of a long sojourn in the ice, he would lead a small hunting party that would search for caribou and other game in the area of the Colville River.
Along the way, Burke examines Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica, how mining supported war, the role of money, the Spanish Armada, large ships, problems posed by a wood shortage, glass making, coal, plate glass, mirrors, the sextant, barometers, the discovery of granite and seashells in the mountains, which enabled a new view of the age of the earth, and Darwin's theory of evolution, Francis Galton's Eugenics, and the forensic use of fingerprints.
view and usable
From an architectural point of view, this arrangement could provide better floor area utilisation, offering an internal column-free office area with a clear depth of 9 to 13. 4 metres and an overall usable floor area efficiency of 81 %.
* The viewing frustum in 3D computer graphics is the usable field of view of a virtual photographic or video camera modeled as a pyramidal frustum.
His designs would have provided sharper images over a larger usable field of view compared to the parabolic designs actually used.
Collating these fragmentary abridgements, and republishing them with translations, is a project being coordinated at University College London with several objectives in view: to make this mass of information available to researchers in a usable form ; to stimulate debate on Festus and on the Augustan antiquarian tradition on which he drew, and generally to enrich and renew studies on Roman life, on which Festus provides such essential information.
view and surface
In the IAP, ions emitted from the surface are recorded and mass analyzed at a detector placed within 12 cm of the tip ( to provide a reasonably large field of view ).
Once the ray either encounters a light source, or more probably once a set limiting number of bounces has been evaluated, then the surface illumination at that final point is evaluated using techniques described above, and the changes along the way through the various bounces evaluated to estimate a value observed at the point of view.
While Conrad ’ s materialism does not prove him an optimist, as he believed, or a pessimist, as a surface reading of his book may suggest, it provides an important filter through which one may discern his world view.
The surface of the Earth, according to such a view, might resemble the interior shell of a sphere.
By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions.
The luminance indicates how much luminous power will be detected by an eye looking at the surface from a particular angle of view.
Because of the size of Olympus Mons and its shallow slopes, an observer standing on the Martian surface would be unable to view the entire profile of the volcano, even from a great distance.
The surface of the hemicube was divided into pixel-like squares, for each of which a view factor can be readily calculated analytically.
The modern view is that light needs no medium of transmission, but Maxwell and his contemporaries were convinced that light waves were propagated in a medium, analogous to sound propagating in air, and ripples propagating on the surface of a pond.
From the point of view of an observer on the Earth's surface the second of TCG passes in slightly less than the observer's SI second.
From a geographical point of view, recent political ecological research shifted partially from investigating the politics ' influence on the earth's surface to the focus on spatial-ecological influences on politics and power — a scope reminiscent of environmental politics.
The Giotto and Vega missions gave planetary scientists their first view of Halley's surface and structure.
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is an attractive target for aerobot exploration, as it has a nitrogen atmosphere five times as dense as that of Earth's that contains a smog of organic photochemicals, hiding the moon's surface from view by visual sensors.
In particular, in the case of human superficial anatomy, these are the form and proportions of the human body and the surface landmarks which correspond to deeper structures hidden from view, both in static pose and in motion.
Especially with modern pixel shaders ( see below ), bump mapping creates the feel of view and lighting-dependent roughness on a surface to enhance realism greatly.
An EL film is a so-called Lambertian radiator: unlike with neon lamps, filament lamps, or LEDs, the brightness of the surface appears the same from all angles of view ; electroluminescent light is not directional and therefore hard to compare with ( thermal ) light sources measured in lumens or lux.
Both are " wedding-cake " style double-shelled domes with an oculus in the inner shell allowing those below to view a circular painting on the inner surface of the outer dome.
Stars with sizable sunspots may show significant variations in brightness as they rotate, and brighter areas of the surface are brought into view.
The word " panorama ", from Greek pan (" all ") horama (" view ") was coined by the Irish painter Robert Barker in 1792 to describe his paintings of Edinburgh, Scotland shown on a cylindrical surface, which he soon was exhibiting in London, as " The Panorama ".
The frame by frame coverage of the lunar surface provided a 360 deg azimuth view and an elevation view from approximately + 90 deg above the plane normal to the camera z axis to-60 deg below this same plane.
The lander was equipped with two television cameras with a 360 degree view of the surface as well as a mass spectrometer to study atmospheric composition ; temperature, pressure, and wind sensors ; and devices to measure mechanical and chemical properties of the surface, including a mechanical scoop to search for organic materials and signs of life.
The rover was planned to be placed on the surface after landing by a manipulator arm and to move in the field of view of the television cameras and stop to make measurements every 1. 5 meters.
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