These techniques also aim at influencing other link-based ranking techniques such as the HITS algorithm.

Canny's aim was to discover the optimal edge detection algorithm.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).

For what we propose, however, a psychoanalyst is not necessary, even though one aim is to enable the reader to get beneath his own defenses -- his defenses of himself to himself.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Nature's aim, different from ours, is to provide for the coming generation.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

The aim is to collect a very broad range of physical, chemical, morphological, and structural data for crystals on an encyclopedic scale and to seek all possible useful and revealing correlations of properties with internal structure.

Critical evaluation of all data compiled is not a primary aim of this project.

That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant.

As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.

The Government of Armenia's stated aim is to build a Western-style parliamentary democracy as the basis of its form of government.

* 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

The aim was to find an appropriate way of introducing Schiller's ode.

The aim is to find hypotheses capable of giving a solution to the problem.

Lincoln reported that after dinner Oxford spoke of the Queen's impending death, claiming that the peers of England should decide the succession, and suggested that since Lincoln had ' a nephew of the blood royal ... Lord Hastings ', he should be sent to France to find allies to support this aim.

In supervised learning, we are given a set of example pairs and the aim is to find a function in the allowed class of functions that matches the examples.

With the aim of showing traditional Inuit life, Flaherty also staged some scenes, including the ending, where Allakariallak ( who acts the part of Nanook ) and his screen family were supposedly at risk of dying if they could not find or build shelter quickly enough.

Unicode has the explicit aim of transcending the limitations of traditional character encodings, such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard, which find wide usage in various countries of the world, but remain largely incompatible with each other.

Brownlee notes that " although civil disobedients are constrained in their use of coercion by their conscientious aim to engage in moral dialogue, nevertheless they may find it necessary to employ limited coercion in order to get their issue onto the table.

The aim of this was to find drugs which would irresistibly bring out deep confessions or wipe a subject's mind clean and program him or her as " a robot agent ".

His aim, however, had been to find a via media between old and new ; his essential conservatism resulted in a lack of sympathy for the revolutionary attitude of the Reformers.

Edward came to Scotland in the high summer of 1314 with the preliminary aim of relieving Stirling Castle: the real purpose, of course, was to find and destroy the Scottish army in the field, and thus end the war.

This is the basis of new drug-discovery tools, which aim to find new drugs to inactivate proteins involved in disease.

The aim of the program was to find a new star, skilled in acting and martial arts, to become Chan's " successor ", the champion being awarded the lead role in a film.

The aim was to find a balance between city traditions and old Roman Law.

Winckelmann believed that art should aim at " noble simplicity and calm grandeur ", and praised the idealism of Greek art, in which he said we find: " not only nature at its most beautiful but also something beyond nature, namely certain ideal forms of its beauty, which, as an ancient interpreter of Plato teaches us, come from images created by the mind alone.

Descartes aim was to find epistemological certainty ( certainty in knowledge ) and part of his project was to prove the existence of an immaterial soul.

The aim is to find the configuration with the maximal density.

... would be able to strike as firmly as he wanted, whatever his aim, and the hammer would never fail, and if he threw it at something, it would never miss and never fly so far from his hand that it would not find its way back, and when he wanted, it would be so small that it could be carried inside his tunic.

The chief aim of the association in France also was political, namely, to obtain a constitution in which the conception of the sovereignty of the people could find expression.

He argues that Toland's philosophy and theology had little to do with positive expression of beliefs, and that his philosophical aim was not to develop an epistemology, a true metaphysical system, an ideal form of governance, or the basis of ethical obligation, but to find ways to participate in the discourses of others while undermining those discourses from within.

An endgame study, or just study, is a composed chess position — that is, one that has been made up rather than one from an actual game — presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find a way for one side ( usually White ) to win or draw, as stipulated, against any moves the other side plays.

Direct Marketing Associations have attracted controversy, as people believe they aim to promote spam and to defend junk mail and unsolicited telemarketing, which many consumers find irritating and intrusive.

Miyagi believed that " the ultimate aim of karate-do was to build character, conquer human misery, and find spiritual freedom ".

Their aim was to find new country for settlement and farming to feed their struggling Sydney colony.

Our aim is to find a solution in the form