First there is knowledge acquisition which “ refers to a firm ’ s capability to identify and acquire externally generated knowledge that is critical to its operations .” Second, there is assimilation capability which “ refers to the firm ’ s routines and processes that allow it to analyze, process, interpret and understand the information obtained from external sources .” “ Potential absorptive capacity makes the firm receptive to acquiring and assimilating external knowledge .”

Second, they can choose to analyze and duplicate the competitive strategy of its rival.

Second, we will see how Sidney answered the charges, for while Sidney's essay was not specifically a reply to Gosson, his arguments do support the new theater.

Second, as we increase the number of desegregated school districts and schools themselves, how can we achieve this action through school board action??

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

Second, the psychology of cognitive development involves understanding how cognitive change takes place and recognizing the factors and processes which enable cognitive competence to develop.

Second, scribes often used many abbreviations, usually so as to write more quickly and sometimes to save space, so the specialist-palaeographer must know how to interpret them.

* Second, it is not clear how to determine the gravitational field of a particle, since under the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics its location and velocity cannot be known with certainty.

Those who believe Paul was the author of Second Thessalonians also note how Paul drew attention to the authenticity of the letter by signing it himself: " I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter .".

Second, how could we possibly get the very concepts of certain properties, described by those terms, properties which are not properties of anything in our ordinary everyday experience?

Many Māori served in the Second World War and learned how to cope in the modern urban world ; others moved from their rural homes to the cities to take up jobs vacated by Pākehā servicemen.

It is not clear how much of this change was due to the documents of the Second Vatican Council.

Second, and most commonly, guidance is not provided on how to change the disturbing content of the dream ; the specific instruction developed by Joseph Neidhardt is “ change the nightmare anyway you wish ” ( Neidhardt et al., 1992 ).

Second, the curve of a nib determines in part how stiff the nib will be.

The Mishnah explained how the Jews of the Second Temple era interpreted the requirement of that the king read the Torah to the people.

:: Example: In the aftermath of the Civil War, there was an outpouring of discussion of the Second Amendment in Congress and in public discourse, as people debated whether ** 2810 and how to secure constitutional rights for newly free slaves.

In The Second Self, originally published in 1984, Turkle writes about how computers are not tools as much as they are a part of our social and psychological lives.

The Second Polar Year ( 1932 – 33 ) program studied how much observations in the polar regions could improve weather forecasts and help transport by air and sea.

Rupert now was at a loss how to continue the campaign ; not daring to enter the dangerous Schooneveld again, his only hope was to lure the Dutch out ; but he was so convinced De Ruyter would never leave this ideal blocking position, his fleet was unready when the resupplied Dutch fleet indeed attacked on 14 June, starting the Second Battle of the Schooneveld.

Rudyard Kipling's short story " Quiquern " collected in The Second Jungle Book ( even though it is not a jungle story ) tells how two young Inuit hunters, desperate to find food for their starving tribe, believe they are being guided by Quiquern / Qiqirn, only to discover that the many-legged " spirit " is actually a pair of sled dogs whose collars had become entangled.

The bombing of the old Rotherhithe Town Hall, during the London Blitz and later in Second World War, gives an indication of how heavy the bombing in Rotherhithe was.

It demonstrates Maxwell's point by hypothetically describing how to violate the Second Law: a container is divided into two parts by an insulated wall, with a door that can be opened and closed by what came to be called " Maxwell's demon ".

Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Second, because Abraham acted on a prophetic vision of what God had asked him to do, the story exemplifies how prophetic revelation has the same truth value as philosophical argument and thus carries equal certainty, notwithstanding the fact that it comes in a dream or vision.

Zola's plan for the Rougon-Macquart novels was to show how heredity and environment worked on members of one family over the course of the Second Empire.

Second, there are well-documented historical examples of ( small ) societies that have practiced unspecific coercion without the help of State institutions — like Iceland in the early Middle Ages.

In the United States and Europe during the Second Great Awakening of the 19th century and thereafter, many radical religious groups formed utopian societies in which all aspects of people's lives could be governed by their faith.

Second, by being reduced to his bones, the shaman experiences rebirth on a more symbolic level: in many hunting and herding societies, the bone represents the source of life, so reduction to a skeleton " is equivalent to re-entering the womb of this primordial life, that is, to a complete renewal, a mystical rebirth ".

Second, no human societies are known where people work only to eat.

Second, a socio-cultural theory where desire is conceptualized as one factor in a much larger context ( i. e. relationships nested within societies, nested within cultures ).

Second edition materials detailed the Lunar Exalted's subversive influence on Creation's societies and revealed the Thousand Streams River Project, a complicated system of social engineering designed to create self-sufficient human societies that do not require Exalted leadership to function.

The Teyler legacy to the city of Haarlem was split into two societies: Teylers First or Theological Society ( Dutch: Teylers Eerste of Godgeleerd Genootschap ), intended for the study of religion and Teylers Second Society ( Dutch: Teylers Tweede Genootschap ), which was to concern itself with physics, poetry, history, drawing and numismatics.

The movement had much in common with other communalist utopian societies formed in the United States and Europe during the Second Great Awakening which sought to govern aspects of people's lives through precepts of faith and community organization.

In this book, societies are listed in waves, e. g., the Agricultural Age is The First Wave, the Industrial Age is The Second Wave, and the Information Age is The Third Wave.

Second, it could screen its own infantry from the sight of the enemy.

In July 1862, the Second Confiscation Act was passed, which set up court procedures that could free the slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

Second, integral reinforcing steel gives modern concrete assemblies great strength in tension, whereas Roman concrete could depend only upon the strength of the concrete bonding to resist tension.

The first Commandant was Samuel Nicholas, who took office as a captain, though there was no office titled " Commandant " at the time, and the Second Continental Congress had authorized that the senior-most Marine could take a rank up to Colonel.

That so much of the book ( chapters 25-31, 35-40 ) is spent describing the plans of the Tabernacle demonstrates the importance it played in the perception of Second Temple Judaism at the time of the text's redaction by the Priestly writers: the Tabernacle is the place where God is physically present, where, through the priesthood, Israel could be in direct, literal communion with him.

First, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the convention, drawing on the inspiration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be seen as part of a wider response of the Allied Powers in delivering a human rights agenda through which it was believed that the most serious human rights violations which had occurred during the Second World War ( most notably, the Holocaust ) could be avoided in the future.

Second, that traffic moving in one direction could be in complete isolation to traffic moving in any other.

Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a " Second Industrial Revolution ", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities.

The bishops in attendance at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 recognized that nothing could be done in the Church contrary to the emperor's will and command ; while, on his side, the emperor, in the case of the Patriarch Anthimus, reinforced the ban of the Church with temporal proscription.

Radek's expulsion was noted at the 1913 SPD Congress, which then went on to decide in principal that no-one who had been expelled from a sister party could join another party within the Second International and retrospectively applied this rule to Radek.

In the years following the Second World War, as component " Hi-Fi " ( high-fidelity ) and, later, " stereo " ( stereophonic ) sound systems slowly evolved from an exotic specialty item into a common feature of American homes, the literal description of the record-spinning component as a " record changer " ( which could automatically play through a stacked series of discs ) or a " turntable " ( which was usually meant to be burdened with only one disc at a time ) entered common usage.

Second, rockets could be arranged in stages.

Sedevacantists, on the other hand, claim that the infallible Magisterium of the Catholic Church could not have decreed the changes made in the name of the Second Vatican Council, and conclude that those who issued these changes could not have been acting with the authority of the Catholic Church.

After the Second World War, Tilburg retained its place as wool capital of the Netherlands, but in the 1960s the industry collapsed and by the 1980s the number of woolmills could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Second, it could give her the experience of an engineer who specializes in the interaction between bodies and material objects.

In the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) proceeding the Second Computer Inquiry, the FCC ruled that telecommunications carriers could no longer bundle CPE with telecommunications service, uncoupling the market power of the telecommunications service monopoly from the CPE market, and creating a competitive CPE market.

Lieber made a record with Django Reinhardt in the AFN Studios in Paris in the post Second World War era and started an event called " Jazz at Noon " every Friday in a New York restaurant playing with a nucleus of advertising men, doctors, lawyers, and business executives who had been or could have been jazz musicians.

The Second Great Awakening expressed Arminian theology, by which every person could be saved through revivals.