Therefore, in common use, those brain parts that lie close to the base of the cranium, and through it to the mouth cavity, are called ventral-i. e., at its bottom or lower side, as defined above )-, whereas dorsal parts are closer to the enclosing cranial vault.

The spine shows platyspondyly, the cranium has a short base, and, frequently, the foramen magnum is decreased in size.

On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.

The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment, set at the 1954 level, which is called the `` base '' allotment, and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment, for each State.

Determine if the particular State's unadjusted allotment ( result obtained in item 11 above ) is less than its minimum ( base ) allotment, and if so raise its unadjusted allotment to its minimum allotment.

The pre-1960 rate of Federal participation with respect to any State's base allotment, as well as the adjusted rate in effect during the 1960 - 1962 period, is designated by the statute as that State's `` adjusted Federal Share ''.

The purpose of the adjusted Federal share relating to the base allotment and of the transition provisions for reaching the unadjusted Federal share is to prevent dislocations from abrupt changes in matching rates.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

Pattern for circular base piece B is diameter of Aj.

It is too easy for the inexperienced person to make a quick judgment of a few values of the area and base a decision on these alone.

Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese, a dialect I take it you don't comprehend.

And the more complex the morphophonemic system is in relation to the phonemic base, the less easily a phonemic system will be analysed without close attention to the morphophonemics -- at least, the less satisfying will a phonemic statement be if it cannot be related through morphophonemic rules to grammatically meaningful structures.

Its function is to separate from the base ruled mass, among whom private ownership prevails, the governing warrior elite.

Destruction of the enemy's building and base complex, however, requires attacks on enemy territory, which is possible only in event of all-out hostilities.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

For the case of a purely inertial autonavigator consisting of three restrained gyros, a coordinate system is used where the sensitive axis of the X accelerometer is parallel to the east-west direction at the base point, and the Y accelerometer sensitive axis is parallel to the north-south direction at the base point.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

Mantle is a master at dragging a bunt toward first base.

If one takes the middle number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 ( the base number of the magic square of three ), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals.

* Let Q be a set enclosed between two step regions S and T. A step region is formed from a finite union of adjacent rectangles resting on a common base, i. e. S ⊆ Q ⊆ T. If there is a unique number c such that a ( S ) ≤ c ≤ a ( T ) for all such step regions S and T, then a ( Q )

However, at the base of this crack is a round void called an ampulla which would have functioned to distribute force over a larger surface area, hindering the ability of the " crack " formed by the serration to propagate through the tooth.

These ambers are formed from resins with a sesquiterpenoid base, such as cadinene.

It was formed in the 1990s on the base of the 334th Regiment of the 120th ' Rogachev ' Guards Motor Rifle Division.

A shuttlecock ( often abbreviated to shuttle ; also called a birdie ) is a high-drag projectile, with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

When a carboxyl group is deprotonated, its conjugate base, a carboxylate anion is formed.

By the early 1990s there was sufficient interest among his seminar graduates to launch a collaborative implementation of his work, and the Bootstrap Alliance was formed as a non-profit home base for this effort.

Origins tend to be " AT-rich " ( rich in adenine and thymine bases ) to assist this process, because A-T base pairs have two hydrogen bonds ( rather than the three formed in a C-G pair )— in general, strands rich in these nucleotides are easier to separate since less energy is required to break relatively fewer hydrogen bonds.

During the process, glycerol is formed, and the fatty acids react with the base, converting them to salts.

Printers congregated in urban centres where there were scholars, ecclesiastics, lawyers, nobles and professionals who formed their major customer base.

Jokes of this genre formed the base of a monologue by comedian Pat Paulsen on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late 1960s.

The castle was the subject of the six-month long Siege of Kenilworth in 1266, believed to be the longest siege in English history, and formed a base for Lancastrian operations in the War of the Roses.

Microsoft and 3Com worked together to create a simple network operating system which formed the base of 3Com's 3 + Share, Microsoft's LAN Manager and IBM's LAN Server-but none of these were particularly successful.

As women found each other, they formed into tight groups on base, socialized at service clubs, and began to use code words.

Ptolemy, in his treatise Optics, held an extramission-intromission theory of vision: the rays ( or flux ) from the eye formed a cone, the vertex being within the eye, and the base defining the visual field.

The Ottoman Turks ( or Osmanlı Turks ) were the Turkish-speaking population of the Ottoman Empire who formed the base of the state's military and ruling classes.

He held an extramission-intromission theory of vision: the rays ( or flux ) from the eye formed a cone, the vertex being within the eye, and the base defining the visual field.

The International System of Units ( SI ) specifies a set of seven base units from which all other units of measurement are formed, by products of the powers of base units.

They eventually formed their new base in Malta.

By the late 1950s, when other emerging nations across the African Continent were demanding independence, a small group of São Toméans had formed the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe ( MLSTP ), which eventually established its base in nearby Gabon.

It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck and from the left wing only, embedded into a rounded cork base.

In 1871, a Ministry of Rites was formed and Shinto shrines were divided into twelve levels with the Ise Shrine ( dedicated to Amaterasu, and thus symbolic of the legitimacy of the Imperial family ) at the peak and small sanctuaries of humble towns at the base.

Disgruntled surrealists moved to the periodical Documents, edited by Georges Bataille, whose anti-idealist materialism formed a hybrid Surrealism intending to expose the base instincts of humans.

Because the base is narrow, most of these electrons will diffuse into the reverse-biased ( electrons and holes are formed at, and move away from the junction ) base-collector junction and be swept into the collector ; perhaps one-hundredth of the electrons will recombine in the base, which is the dominant mechanism in the base current.