A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

Gathering intelligence is important, but of equal importance is its translation into usable form.

Both ethical altruism and ethical egoism contrast with utilitarianism, which is the view that every individual's well-being ( including one's own ) is of equal moral importance.

High-end fashion designers and jewelry designers are likely to become celebrities but will not garner the same and equal importance in the entertainment sphere compared to a successful film or television actor or a widely known musician.

She stresses the complementarity and equal importance of the male and female roles according to yin-yang theory, but she clearly accepts the dominance of the yang-male.

Of equal importance are the players ' strategies for emptying and filling their starting and home corners.

By contrast with empiricism and idealism, which emphasize the epistemologically privileged status of sense data ( empirical ) and the primacy of Reason ( theoretical ) respectively, modern rationalism adds a third ' system of thinking ', ( as Gaston Bachelard has termed these areas ) and holds that all three are of equal importance: The empirical, the theoretical and the abstract.

What they demonstrated was that oral epics tend to be constructed in short episodes, each of equal status, interest and importance.

In many projects, schedule performance ( completing the work on time ) is equal in importance to technical performance.

Godwin was a utilitarian who believed that all individuals are not of equal value, with some of us " of more worth and importance ' than others depending on our utility in bringing about social good.

Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements of the works.

Positive Risk Management views both risk taking and risk aversion as complementary and of equal value and importance within the appropriate context.

A result of fundamental importance in linear algebra is that the column rank and the row rank are always equal ( see below for proofs ).

Data representing each subgroup are taken to be of equal importance if suspected variation among them warrants stratified sampling.

Though distinctive, each is visually equal in importance, and they are linked with a series of open-air arcades that are the front facades of student accommodations.

::' In comparing the moral qualitys of actions, in order to regulate our election among various actions proposed, or to find which of them has the greatest moral excellency, we are led by our moral sense of virtue to judge thus ; that in equal degrees of happiness, expected to proceed from the action, the virtue is in proportion to the number of persons to whom the happiness shall extend ( and here the dignity, or moral importance of persons, may compensate numbers ); and in equal numbers, the virtue is as the quantity of the happiness, or natural good ; or that the virtue is in a compound ratio of the quantity of good, and number of enjoyers.

The Centre also takes a multi-disciplinary approach to human rights and attaches equal importance to all human rights.

Another town, equal in importance to Ptuj, where the Carnival tradition is alive is Cerknica.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

He firmly declined to confirm their disciplinary arrangements, which seemed to allow Constantinople a practically equal authority with Rome and regarded the civil importance of a city as a determining factor in its ecclesiastical position ; but he strongly supported its dogmatic decrees, especially when, after the accession of Leo I the Thracian ( 457 ), there seemed to be a disposition toward compromise with the Eutychians.

There is no probability, that any other detached body of land, of nearly equal extent, will ever be found in a more southern latitude ; the name Terra Australis will, therefore, remain descriptive of the geographical importance of this country, and of its situation on the globe: it has antiquity to recommend it ; and, having no reference to either of the two claiming nations, appears to be less objectionable than any other which could have been selected.

If these elements for any synoptic cloud level at the time of observation are deemed to be of equal importance, then the type which is predominant in amount is coded by the observer and plotted on the weather map.

" Magical speech is therefore a ritual act and is of equal or even greater importance to the performance of magic than non-verbal acts.

Regardless of its unadjusted allotment, each State is guaranteed by law a minimum allotment each year equal to the allotment which it received in fiscal year 1954 -- increased by a uniform percentage of 5.4865771 which brings total 1954 allotments to all States up to $23,000,000.

A tour of several of them is possible in a two-week vacation while a stay at just one of these natural beauty spots can be of equal reward.

This is true because of savings in utility lines and the fact that your buildings have a useful radius equal in all directions.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black body in order that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation.

This conformational entropy is, in this case, equal to the usual entropy, for there are no other changes or other energies involved.

The approximate equation is Af, where N is the number of Af with electron line-density greater than or equal to Af, and Q is proportional to the mass of the meteorite.

Almost equal in size to a honeybee, A. armata is much more beautiful in color, at least in the female of the species: a rich, velvety, rusty red.

Therefore, for any value of T the number of values of f{t} is equal to the ( finite ) number of tangent points corresponding to the argument T plus an odd number.

Autosuggestibility, the reaction of the subject in such a way as to conform to his own expectations of the outcome ( i.e., that the arm-rise is a reaction to the pressure exerted in the voluntary contraction, because of his knowledge that `` to every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction '' ) also seems inadequate as an explanation for the following reasons: ( 1 ) the subjects' apparently genuine experience of surprise when their arms rose, and ( 2 ) manifestations of the phenomenon despite anticipations of something else happening ( e.g., of becoming dizzy and maybe falling, an expectation spontaneously volunteered by one of the subjects ).

If Af leads to an address Af that is equal to the address computed from Af, even though Af does not match Af, the chain of information cells is extended from Af by storing the address of the next available cell in the Y-region, Af, in Af.

The level of average cost ( equal to marginal cost ) is thus strictly a function of the wage rate.

The earth is spinning at an angular velocity **zq equal to one revolution per 24 hr..

Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.

Lagrange's law says that its velocity is equal to the square root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due to gravity.

Its rotunda forms a perfect circle whose diameter is equal to the height from the floor to the ceiling.

Total farm output for this year is officially forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 average, three points higher than the July 1 estimate and exactly equal to the final figure for 1960.

The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.