Obsolescence of technical skills is a serious concern for electrical engineers.

According to the Greek historian Plutarch ( in De defectu oraculorum, " The Obsolescence of Oracles "), Pan is the only Greek god ( other than Asclepius ) who actually dies.

Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service or practice is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order.

Obsolescence management, also referred to as " Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages ( DMSMS ) is defined as to the activities that are undertaken to mitigate the effects of obsolescence.

Obsolescence is built into most personal electronics, shortening their useful live, again lowering the actual value.

; Obsolescence cycles: Separating the motive power from payload-hauling cars enables one to be replaced without affecting the other.

* Obsolescence of vocabulary-slang typically have short lifespans.

) Decline and Obsolescence of Logical Empiricism: Carnap vs. Quine and the Critics.

Beck included " Safe as Milk " and " Ella Guru " in a playlist of songs as part of his website's Planned Obsolescence series of mashups of songs by the musicians that influenced him.

* Obsolescence cycles-Separating the motive power from the payload-carrying cars means that either can be replaced when obsolete without affecting the other.

Decline and Obsolescence of Logical Empiricism: Carnap vs. Quine and the Critics.

Obsolescence frequently occurs because a replacement has become available that has got in sum more advantages than the inconvenients related to repurchasing the replacement.

* Bjoern Bartels, Ulrich Ermel, Peter Sandborn and Michael G. Pecht: Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence, 1st.

* White Paper – Hardware Obsolescence Management in the Biometrics Industry ; Reducing Costs by Enhancing the Flexibility of Biometric Solutions.

*" The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective ", chapter thirteen of Women, Race & Class, by Angela Davis.

Origins of planned obsolescence go back at least as far as 1932 with Bernard London's pamphlet Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence.

" Obsolescence of desirability ", also called " psychological obsolescence ", referred to marketers ' attempts to wear out a product in the owner's mind.

* Obsolescence: Older keys may not include more recently described species.

* Giles Slade, Made To Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America ( Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2007 ): see Chapter 8.

* Obsolescence — Each TOE NIC has a limited lifetime of usefulness, because system hardware rapidly catches up to TOE performance levels, and eventually exceeds TOE performance levels.

Harley Earl and Alfred P. Sloan implemented " Dynamic Obsolescence " ( essentially synonymous with planned obsolescence ) and the " Annual Model Change " ( tying model identity to a specific year ) to further position design as an engine for the company's product success.

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

The principal defender of this view of primary experience as `` causal efficacy '' is Alfred North Whitehead.

Speaking as a non-Jew I believe that its primary contribution is in the realm of future policy.

The natural and primary aesthetic attitude is to enjoy contemporary art, to despise and dislike the art of the recent past, and wholly to ignore everything else ''.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

But competent observers believe he is making progress, particularly toward what Sen. Jackson lists as the primary need -- `` a clearer understanding of where our vital national interests lie and what we must do to promote them ''.

Its primary advantage is that it is a moral choice ; ;

A primary function is the operation of a Government Bid Center, which receives bids daily from the Federal Government's principal purchasing agencies.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

As mentioned, the primary allocation objective to be followed in the allocation of stations on clear channels is the provision of widespread service, free from destructive interference.

The result is a color picture of the specimen where the primary colors correspond to the three different ultraviolet wavelengths.

A primary ingredient in these fields is imagination, and Tri-State Pipeline Corporation deserves a very good mark.

The theorem which we prove is more general than what we have described, since it works with the primary decomposition of the minimal polynomial, whether or not the primes which enter are all of first degree.

If Af are the projections associated with the primary decomposition of T, then each Af is a polynomial in T, and accordingly if a linear operator U commutes with T then U commutes with each of the Af, i.e., each subspace Af is invariant under U.

In the primary decomposition theorem, it is not necessary that the vector space V be finite dimensional, nor is it necessary for parts ( A ) and ( B ) that P be the minimal polynomial for T.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

There is a haunting resemblance between the notion of cause in Copernicus and in Freud.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.

What he really wants is to find `` a sacred cause '' to which he can honestly devote himself.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

This is a common symptom and the cause usually is pressure on the nerve leading to the affected hand.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a study covering -- ( 1 )

The cause is as often neglect as hesitance to disclose.

Allow project to stand for about five minutes ( if wooden press mold is a good antique, do not leave clay in too long as the dampness may cause mold to crack ).

This is an important step because any misalignment would cause progressively worse misalignment in the hull as you advance in construction.

Of course, when your 6-inch torrent of water is released, it may cause a lot of comment as it passes through or by neighboring properties.

Therefore, neglecting the extreme outbursts, reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation in the centimeter- and decimeter-wave-length range.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause on one's social criticism, for it makes diagnosis and prescription much easier than they might otherwise be.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.