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It expands on the comment by Doctor Watson in The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb " Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice -- that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Warburton's madness.
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When using the works of his authorities Alexander does not only review their reasoning but also gives conclusions, expands on them, and offers his agreements and disagreement with them.
It has been hypothesized that the portion of the brain responsible for processing stimulation from amputated limbs, being deprived of input, expands into the surrounding brain, ( Phantoms in the Brain: V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee ) such that an individual who has had an arm amputated will experience unexplained pressure or movement on his face or head.
In this coordinate system the grid expands along with the Universe, and objects that are moving only due to the expansion of the Universe remain at fixed points on the grid.
He may have had in mind the Apocryphon of Ezekiel, a 1st century BCE text that expands on the doctrine of resurrection.
* The mission of the Community College Research Center from Teachers College at Columbia University is to " conduct research on the major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students.
Dracula expands on the idea of a first person account by creating a series of journal entries and logs of different persons and creating a plausible background story for them having been compiled.
" Laura Mulvey's germinal essay " Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " ( written in 1973 and published in 1975 ) expands on this conception of the passive role of women in cinema to argue that film provides visual pleasure through scopophilia, and identification with the on-screen male actor.
The phrase " feudal society " as defined by Marc Bloch expands on the definition proposed by Ganshof and includes within the feudal structure not only the warrior aristocracy bound by vassalage, but also the peasantry bound by manorialism, and the estates of the Church.
Scheetz expands on Beaman, q. v.
The symbolism in the book expands on these as a struggle between good and evil ( light and darkness ), not so much between people as in every major character's soul.
The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".
recent efforts focused on bringing competition to the telecommunications sector ; the number of fixed lines is decreasing as wireless telephone service expands.
James D. Hudnall's Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography further expands on Luthor's origin.
Created by two Canadian filmmakers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky's earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.
As the egg expands, the universal veil ruptures and may remain as a cup, or volva, at the base of the stalk, or as warts or volval patches on the cap.
In the common elk ( A. a. alces ) this branch usually expands into a broad palmation, with one large tine at the base, and a number of smaller snags on the free border.
The United States Department of Defense expands on the NATO reporting names in some cases.
Liquid flows into the pump as the cavity on the suction side expands and the liquid flows out of the discharge as the cavity collapses.
Liquid flows into the pumps as the cavity on the suction side expands and the liquid flows out of the discharge as the cavity collapses.
In this version of the myth ( lines 60 – 105 ), Hesiod expands upon her origin, and moreover widens the scope of the misery she inflicts on mankind.
The hourglass model starts with a broad spectrum for research, focusing in on the required information through the method of the project ( like the neck of the hourglass ), then expands the research in the form of discussion and results.
This greatly expands the number of possibilities: a machine can have 50 or more symbols on a reel, giving odds as high as 300 million to 1 against – enough for even the largest jackpot.
The Great Learning expands on this concept explaining that the Way illuminates virtue, improves the people, and resides within the purest morality.
It expands to occupy 9 % greater volume in this solid state, which accounts for the fact of ice floating on liquid water, as in icebergs.
Each term may be interpreted as a spherical wave that expands or contracts with velocity c. Such waves are generated by a point source, and they make possible sharp signals whose form is altered only by a decrease in amplitude as r increases ( see an illustration of a spherical wave on the top right ).
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As this hot vapor cloud expands, it rises and cools much like the archetypal mushroom cloud generated by large nuclear explosions.
GDebi is a tool that expands the functionality of dpkg by not only installing local. deb packages but also fetching and installing dependencies from online repositories.
APT expands the functionality of dpkg by searching, fetching and installing packages from online repositories along with their dependencies, either from binary files or by compiling source code.
It is during this short phase that the animal expands, since growth is otherwise constrained by the rigidity of the exoskeleton.
This is the revelation of a film shot by its appearance inside a small circular vignette mask which gradually gets larger till it expands beyond the frame, and the whole image is in the clear.
Gallium metal expands by 3. 1 % when it solidifies, and therefore storage in either glass or metal containers is avoided, due to the possibility of container rupture with freezing.
* XML with the XLink extension – A newer hypertext markup language that extends and expands capabilities introduced by HTML.
The air after being compressed in the compressor is heated by burning fuel in it, this heats and expands the air, and this extra energy is tapped by the turbine, which in turn powers the compressor closing the cycle and powering the shaft.
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is given in her honor each year for a work of science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender ; funds for the award are raised in part by bake sales
Peppermint generally grows best in moist, shaded locations, and expands by underground stolons.
Langham has used it for several subsequent productions, most recently in an adaptation by Stanley Silverman which expands the score with some of Ellington's best-known works.
If the upper air is warmer than predicted by the adiabatic lapse rate (), then when a parcel of air rises and expands, it will arrive at the new height at a lower temperature than its surroundings.
Amy Devitt further expands on the concept of culture in her 2004 essay, " A Theory of Genre " by adding “ culture defines what situations and genres are likely or possible ” ( Devitt 24 ).
A hydrogen balloon expands when warmed by the sunlight, and rises ; then it contracts when cooled at night, and falls.
He investigated the phenomenon of refraction, deducing the wave theory of light, and was the first to suggest that matter expands when heated and that air is made of small particles separated by relatively large distances.
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Saward's novelisation expands on the radio play greatly, with an extensive prologue running a good third of the book before the Doctor appears and the adaptation of the radio play storyline begins.
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