The current is strongly constrained by landform and bathymetric features.

This oxygen level probably increased wildfire activity, as well as resulted in insect and amphibian gigantism -- creatures whose size is constrained by respiratory systems that are limited in their ability to diffuse oxygen.

The symmetry of a crystal is constrained by the requirement that the unit cells stack perfectly with no gaps.

Then and only then, trade is regulated or constrained.

Typically the user buys the least expensive model having a specific feature set, but does not care much about speed ( since speed is constrained by how fast the user can press the buttons ).

Such motions are constrained by the 2-dimensional surface of the earth, so only the horizontal component of the Coriolis force is generally important.

The data model in such products incorporates relations but is not constrained by E. F. Codd's Information Principle, which requires that

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a long book devoted to language and translation, especially poetry translation, and one of its leitmotifs is a set of some 88 translations of " Ma Mignonne ", a highly constrained poem by 16th-century French poet Clément Marot.

It is highly constrained and filled with many types of sonic pattern.

A term for this is ' constrained utility maximization ' ( with income and wealth as the constraints on demand ).

In constraint-induced movement therapy, the alternative limb is constrained with a glove or sling and the patient is forced to use the affected limb.

In constraint-induced aphasia therapy, the interaction is guided by communicative need in a language game context, picture cards, barriers making it impossible to see other players ' cards, and other materials, so that patients are encouraged (" constrained ") to use the remaining verbal abilities to succeed in the communication game.

Agriculture production is constrained by an almost total dependence on erratic winter snows and spring rains for water.

It is during this short phase that the animal expands, since growth is otherwise constrained by the rigidity of the exoskeleton.

Though easy to understand, the implementation of the algorithm used above is impractical in languages and environments where stack space is severely constrained ( e. g. Java applets ).

Since this also results in a prediction for the relative strengths of the fundamental interactions which we observe, in particular the weak mixing angle, Grand Unification ideally reduces the number of independent input parameters, but is also constrained by observations.

Benjamin said, " Hezbollah maintains a presence in Europe and its recent activities demonstrate that it is not constrained by concerns about collateral damage or political fallout that could result from conducting operations there ... We assess that Hezbollah could attack in Europe or elsewhere at any time with little or no warning " and that Hezbollah has " stepped up terrorist campaigns around the world.

Availability of channels is regulated by country, constrained in part by how each country allocates radio spectrum to various services.

The division of the entire Kingdom Animalia into vertebrates ( about 40000 species in part of one phylum ) and invertebrates certainly is convenient in some practical contexts, but to put it into taxonomic perspective, it is roughly on the same scale as dividing the animal kingdom into Gastropoda ( perhaps 60000 species in part of one phylum ) and non-Gastropoda ; worthwhile only in certain constrained contexts.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.

Pax Khazarica is a term used by historians to refer to the period during which the Khazaria dominated the Pontic steppe and the Caucasus Mountains.

The Eurasian margin, now preserved in the Pontides ( the Pontic Mountains along the Black Sea coast ), is thought to have been geologically similar to the Western Pacific region today ( e. g. Rice et al., 2006 ).

The descendants of the Alans, who live in the autonomous republics of Russia and Georgia, speak the Ossetic language which belongs to the Northeastern Iranian language group and is the only remnant of the Scytho-Sarmatian dialect continuum, which once stretched over much of the Pontic steppe and Central Asia.

* Hannibalianus, nephew of Constantine I, is made Rex Regum (" King of Kings of the Pontic people ").

The restored Scythian name is * Skuda ( archer ), which among the Pontic or Royal Scythians became * Skula, in which the d has been regularly replaced by an l.

Both in Pontic Greek and Modern Greek, it is called Τραπεζούντα ( Trapezounta ).

However, the Pontic Greek language ( known as Romeiaka or Ποντιακά, Pontiaka ) is spoken mostly by the older generations.

There are a variety of dialects of the Greek language ; the most notable include Cappadocian, Cretan Greek ( which is closely related to most Aegean Islands ' dialects ), Cypriot Greek, Pontic Greek, the Griko language spoken in Southern Italy, and Tsakonian, still spoken in the modern prefecture of Arcadia and widely noted as a surviving regional dialect of Doric Greek.

Pontic is the proposed language family or macrofamily, comprising the Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian language families, with Proto-Pontic being the reconstructed proto-language.

Much of the foundation of his theory, they point out, is based on similarities between names of figures from Norse mythology and geographical place-names of the present time in the Pontic steppe and Caucasus.

North Caucasian languages ( sometimes called simply Caucasic as opposed to Kartvelian, and to avoid confusion with the concept of " Caucasian race ") is a blanket term for two language phyla spoken chiefly in the north Caucasus and Turkey: the Northwest Caucasian family ( Pontic, Abkhaz – Adyghe, Circassian, West Caucasian ) and the Northeast Caucasian family ( Caspian, Nakh – Dagestanian, East Caucasian ); the latter includes the former North-central Caucasian ( Nakh ) family.

The Pontic genre of immigrant music which is well-known from the remarkable minority of Pontians in America, retains elements of the musical traditions of ancient Greece, Byzantine music and the tradition of Caucasus.

The prime instruments in Pontic music are the Pontic lyra ( Kemenche ), which has origins in Byzantine period and it is related closely with the Byzantine lyra and Cretan lyra.

More than a million Greeks also lived in what is now Turkey, mainly in the Aegean region around İzmir ( Smyrna ) and in the Pontic region on the Black Sea coast.

The Kurgan hypothesis is " the single most popular " model, postulating that the Kurgan culture of the Pontic steppe were the hypothesized speakers of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language.

In addition, the Christian's theoria is not contemplation of Platonic Ideas nor of the astronomical heavens of Pontic Heraclitus, but is contemplative prayer, the knowledge of God that is impregnated with love.

Mithra in fact must have been one of the most venerated gods of the Pontic Kingdom, since its rulers bore the theomorphic name of Mithradates although direct evidence for this cult is rather meager.

Kochari (, Kotsari,, ), is a folk dance, danced today by Armenians, Pontic Greeks, Assyrians, Azerbaijanis, Turks and Kurds.

The Pontic Greek term for limp is ' kotso ' and the Pontic Greek kochari is considered to contain a number of limps.