* 1957 – John Wheeler discusses the breakdown of classical general relativity near singularities and the need for quantum gravity

After a nervous breakdown and consequential sabbatical, he returned to classical music but did not wield the same level of influence as before.

Factors introduced into the discussion include: a breakdown of the transmission in artistic skills due to the political and economic disruption of the Crisis of the Third Century, influence from Eastern and other pre-classical regional styles from around the Empire ( a view promoted by Josef Strzygowski ( 1862-1941 ), and now mostly discounted ), the emergence into high-status public art of a simpler " popular " or " Italic " style that had been used by the less wealthy throughout the reign of Greek models, an active ideological turning against what classical styles had come to represent, and a deliberate preference for seeing the world simply and exploiting the expressive possibilities that a simpler style gave.

Granet ’ s work, meanwhile, brought Durkheimian sociology into the classical Chinese realm, from his analysis of the Book of Odes, to a sociological breakdown of Chinese numerology.

While there was a substantial formalist reaction within the modernist schools to the breakdown of structure, this reaction focused as much on the development of new formal structures and syntheses as on the revival of older forms and structures.

In 1968, the DoD issued " Work Breakdown Structures for Defense Materiel Items " ( MIL-STD-881 ), a military standard requiring the use of work breakdown structures across the DoD.

It includes standards for preparing work breakdown structures, templates for the top three levels of typical systems, and a set of " common elements " that are applicable to all major systems and subsystems.

Work breakdown structures that subdivide work by project phases ( e. g. preliminary design phase, critical design phase ) must ensure that phases are clearly separated by a deliverable also used in defining entry and exit criteria ( e. g. an approved preliminary or critical design review ).

# Mechanical and chemical breakdown: mastication and the mixing of the resulting bolus with water, acids, bile and enzymes in the stomach and intestine to break down complex molecules into simple structures,

For example: work breakdown structures, critical path analysis and earned value management.

The Provisional Government was unable to make decisive policy decisions due to political factionalism and a breakdown of state structures.

* Single-event induced burnout ( SEB ) may occur in power MOSFETs when the substrate right under the source region gets forward-biased and the drain-source voltage is higher than the breakdown voltage of the parasitic structures.

This has been observed to increase the likelihood of crime in certain urban areas, which can lead to increased policing and a further breakdown of familial structures as a result of arrests, which, in turn, precipitates more crime.

Participants in the challenge are on their own, meaning that no assistance is rendered to motorists in case of a car breakdown or even if they become stranded.

The most common meaning is related to automobiles and is the failure of an electric circuit or associated device resulting in a loss of vehicle function ( a breakdown ).

The second meaning of the term is more specifically a reference to the breakdown of the insulation of an electrical wire or other electrical component.

The term was coined by the linguist Otto Jespersen, from Greek elements meaning " a change of breakdown ".

If sugars are heated so that all water of crystallisation is driven off, then caramelization starts, with the sugar undergoing thermal decomposition with the formation of carbon, and other breakdown products producing caramel.

Several modern theories have ventured to explain this decline, including the breakdown of trade routes to supply the needed metals, the lack of trace impurities in the metals, the possible loss of knowledge on the crafting techniques through secrecy and lack of transmission, or a combination of all the above.

A breakdown of power and authority penetrated all levels of society as both sides, aiming to gain supremacy for their own faction, refused to make political compromises.

The UK Census figures do not allow an accurate breakdown of traditions within the pagan heading, as a campaign by the Pagan Federation before the census encouraged Wiccans, Heathens, Druids and others all to use the same write-in term ' Pagan ' in order to maximise the numbers reported.

Smoking also results in increased breakdown of exogenous estrogen, lower body weight and earlier menopause, all of which contribute to lower bone mineral density.

Most British commentators claim it is false the riots were due to a breakdown of multiculturalism alone and instead is more likely to have been caused by other factors such as disillusioned youth, high unemployment and a growing attraction to ' gangsta ' culture by a sizeable proportion of the youth, across all ethnicities, of The United Kingdom.

Another common use of the term is as a catchall for all the markets in the financial sector, as per examples in the breakdown below.

All in all, the plague did not lead to a full-scale breakdown of government and society, and recovery was remarkably swift.

Pyridoxal phosphate is involved in almost all amino acid metabolism, from synthesis to breakdown.

The distress among all classes continued ; and in March the attempt of the Directory to replace the assignats by a new issue of mandats created fresh dissatisfaction after the breakdown of the hopes first raised.

Automation in the modern context began in the early 1980s, made possible firstly by the construction of lantern top helipads at remote rock lighthouses, to enable the rapid transfer of technicians to a lighthouse in the event of a breakdown, and secondly, by the development of remote control technology, which enables all lighthouses and lightvessels to be monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre, in Harwich, Essex.

The novel is set in a time after numerous EMP strikes around the world cut off all sources of electricity to his town and the ensuing aftermath of sociological breakdown.

Dumbledore sends Harry back to school, where, after Harry has a breakdown, screaming that " he's had enough " of all the pain and anguish and death and destruction, he explains that the sphere was a prophecy which stated that Harry has a power that Voldemort will never know: the power of love, given to him by his mother's sacrifice fifteen years earlier.

In the end, Kirkland sits on the court's steps, all by himself, weary from his breakdown but satisfied, knowing his antics probably cost him his practice and career in law, but will presumably finally put Fleming in jail.

In 2005, Local H performed an " all request tour " in which a ballot containing a breakdown of most of the bands ' songs organized into various categories, resembling a traditional sushi menu, was handed out to the audience upon admittance to the venue.

The breakdown of organic mollecules in the soil into phosphates, nitrates and all the other " ates " which are then in a form which plants can utilize.

Warranties, money-back guarantees, and exchange programs all help to allay the fears of the customer that there will be costly problems with the product ; with these programs, the customer knows that in the event of a breakdown, it will be fixed by the store or the product will be replaced.

Gantt charts have become a common technique for representing the phases and activities of a project work breakdown structure ( WBS ), so they can be understood by a wide audience all over the world.

Some people do not behave in rational ways, they generally have no access to all of the information needed to make rational decisions they could articulate, and therefore will make unrational decisions, unless there is some breakdown in the communication process — which is common.

Ethylene is a gas that forms through the Yang Cycle from the breakdown of methionine, which is in all cells.

She resigned from the service as a result, and the guilt over killing someone face-to-face caused her to suffer a nervous breakdown or emotional collapse which led to her undergoing a procedure, the Fullara, that erased all memory of the incident.

It is a clamping device, suppressing all overvoltages above its breakdown voltage.

** Landscape of plans — state-by-state breakdown of all plans available an area, both Stand-alone Part D plans, as well as Medicare Advantage plans

At the end of the Renaissance the view of astrology as a science collapsed with the breakdown of Aristotelian Physics and rejection of the distinction between the celestial and sublunar realms, which had historically acted as the foundation of astrological theory.