Since none of these glimpses of poetizing without writing is intended to incorporate a signature into the epic matter, there is prima-facie evidence that Beowulf and the Homeric poems each derive from an oral tradition.

Since the late 90s in Austria, slow release oral morphine has been used alongside methadone and buprenorphine for OST and more recently it has been approved in Slovenia and Bulgaria, and it has gained approval in other EU nations including the United Kingdom, although its use is not as of yet not as widespread.

Since estrogen circulating in the blood can negatively feed-back to reduce circulating levels of FSH and LH, most oral contraceptives contain a synthetic estrogen, along with a synthetic progestin.

Since the early 1970s, oral history in Britain has grown from being a method in folklore studies ( see for example the work of the School of Scottish Studies in the 1950s ) to becoming a key component in community histories.

Since 1996, however, the collection has also included oral histories of senior NASA administrators and officials, astronauts, and project managers, part of a broader project to document the lives of key agency individuals.

Since oral decongestant drugs raise blood pressure levels, individuals with hypertension are advised to avoid them.

Since ancient Greek myths were passed down through oral tradition, many variations of this and other myths exist.

Since the electors were set to meet December 18, the " safe harbor " deadline was December 12, just one day after the Court heard oral arguments in this case.

Since Jesus lived and preached in an oral culture, scholars expect that short, memorable stories or phrases are more likely to be historical.

Since 27 October 2002, all ITV plc-owned franchises, regional programming is either preceded or plugged by an oral regional announcement, in the format ITV1 regional brand, e. g. ITV1 Granada.

Since then, a surprising number of studies have upheld the descriptive validity of dependent personality traits, viewed as submissiveness, oral character traits, oral dependence, or passive dependence, or as a constellation of both pathological and adaptive traits under the rubric.

Since the kidneys of adult humans excrete excess magnesium efficiently, oral magnesium poisoning in adults with normal renal function is very rare.

Since 1969 most modern BCs have used inflation gas from one of the diver's main gas cylinders, in addition to an oral inflation tube which is used at the surface in the event the diver has no high pressure gas left ( oral inflation can also be used at depth, in cases where a BC inflator hose develops a leak or problem and requires disconnection ).

Since the 1950s, Foreign Service Officer applicants who passed a full-day written exam were invited to an oral assessment.

Since Kristang was never taught officially in schools, it was largely an oral language.

" Since the Calusa had no written language, the only record we have of their lifestyle and ceremonies comes from the oral history of the ( much later ) Seminoles, from written accounts of Spanish explorers, and from the archaeological record.

Since safe and effective replacements for phosphate puratives are available, several medical authorities have recommended general disuse of oral phosphates.

Since knowledge of the bead is derived from several differing oral traditions, the beads have provoked controversy concerning their source, their method of manufacture, and even their precise definition.

Since ancient times, Irish bards played an important cultural role preserving Irish myths, histories and genealogies in the oral tradition.

Since none of these gospels was written even by the men's names who are on them, they are the product of oral history.

Since 1987, the Board has required an oral examination for applicants for licensure as psychologists.

Since then, the standard set of languages included in Altaic has comprised Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese.

Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, Spanish, and immigration.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

Since software can be designed using many different programming languages and in many different operating systems and operating environments, software standard is needed so that different software can understand and exchange information between each other.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

Since the time of Pāṇini, at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of their block structure, and described how sentences are recursively built up from smaller phrases, and eventually individual words or word elements.

Since all the names come from languages used long after the dolmens were erected, they don't indicate the intentions of the civilisations that constructed them.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

Since the end of Sakoku in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly – the last half-century or so has seen a very large volume of words borrowed from English, especially words about technology, including pasokon ( a shortening of " personal computer "), intānetto (" Internet "), and kamera (" camera ").

Since 1999, the education laws have forbidden the public universities to instruct students in languages other than Latvian ( there are exclusions made for linguistics, some international projects and non-budget groups ).

Since August 2003, the site has been translated into ten other written languages: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch and French.

Since most languages are textual, this article discusses textual syntax.

Since the late twentieth century, the Maya code has been almost completely deciphered, and the Mayan languages are among the most documented and studied in Mesoamerica.

Since HDLs are not considered to be programming languages by most hardware engineers, hardware refactoring is to be considered a separate field from traditional code refactoring.

Since Brown and Lenneberg believed that the objective reality denoted by language was the same for speakers of all languages, they decided to test how different languages codified the same message differently and whether differences in codification could be proven to affect behavior.

Since 1997 Sardinian has been an official language on the island, together with other languages spoken there.

Since few people are able to understand ancient languages, each age has translated Sappho in its own idiomatic way.

Since 1982, when the International Organization for Standardization adopted Pinyin as the standard romanization of Chinese, many Western languages have changed from spelling this loanword dao in national systems ( e. g., French EFEO Chinese transcription and English Wade – Giles ) to dao in Pinyin.

Since the first edition in French " Manuel du Répertoire bibliographique universel " ( 1905 ), UDC has been translated and published in various editions in 40 languages.

Since many settlers came via France and Italy, it is also likely that the Romance-based Jewish languages of those regions were represented.

Since Niklaus Wirth went on to develop languages such as Modula and Oberon ( where one could define a module before knowing about the entire program specification ), one can infer that top down programming was not strictly what he promoted.

Since the early 1990s, Masson has written a number of books on the emotional life of animals, one of which, When Elephants Weep, has been translated into 20 languages.

Since the Atlas mountains rise in the region inhabited by Berbers, it has been suggested that the name might be taken from one of the Berber languages, specifically adrar, Berber for " mountain ".