However, much of southeastern Europe and central Europe, including many of the Goths and Vandals respectively, had embraced Arianism ( the Visigoths converted to Arian Christianity in 376 ), which led to Arianism being a religious factor in various wars in the Roman Empire.

The consensus report concludes that " although the data remain incomplete, National Assessment meeting participants concurred that methadone tablets and / or diskettes distributed through channels other than opioid treatment programs most likely are the central factor in methadone-associated mortality.

The lack of conventional dance rhythms was a central factor in limiting punk's mainstream commercial impact.

Two central quantities in statistical thermodynamics are the Boltzmann factor and the partition function.

Stephen Langton ( c. 1150 – 9 July 1228 ) was Archbishop of Canterbury between 1207 and his death in 1228 and was a central figure in the dispute between King John of England and Pope Innocent III, which was a contributing factor to the crisis which led to the issuing of Magna Carta in 1215.

The devices for correction of the power factor may be at a central substation, spread out over a distribution system, or built into power-consuming equipment.

Biological importance of a polymorphic CA sequence within intron I of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene ( EGFR ) in high grade central osteosarcomas.

The Pax Americana, which the Union enforced upon the states of central North America, was a factor in the United States ' national prosperity.

Those who believe the money supply is controlled exogenously by a central bank may attribute an ' expansionary monetary policy ' to said bank and ( should one exist ) a governing body or institution ; others who believe that the money supply is created endogenously by the banking sector may attribute such a ' policy ' with the behavior of the financial sector itself, and view the state as a passive or reactive factor.

Therefore, design is the central factor of innovative humanization of technologies and the crucial factor of cultural and economic exchange.

In their view a core competency is a specific factor that a business sees as being central to the way it, or its employees, works.

The gist of the following elementary proof is due to Paul Erd &# 337 ; s. The basic idea of the proof is to show that a certain central binomial coefficient needs to have a prime factor within the desired interval in order to be large enough.

asymptotic growth of the central binomial coefficient is at least 4 < sup > n </ sup >/ 2n, one concludes that for n large enough there must exist some other prime factor, thus between n and 2n.

Perfectionism is a central feature and risk factor for developing an eating disorder.

It was also a central idea of Jean Metzinger's Note sur la Peinture, 1910 ; Indeed, prior to Cubsim painters worked from the limiting factor of a single view-point.

The date line is a central factor in Umberto Eco's book The Island of the Day Before ( 1994 ), in which the protagonist finds himself on a becalmed ship, with an island close at hand on the other side of the International Date Line.

This explains to a large degree why central obesity is a marker of impaired glucose tolerance and is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease ( even in the absence of diabetes mellitus and hypertension ).

These arguments for climatic determinism are today echoed by the work of scholars such as Jared Diamond who suggests in his work Collapse that climatic and environmental determinants have been the central factor determining the rise and fall of empires.

That the Exclusion Bill was the central question upon which parties diverged, did not hinge upon an assessment of the personal character of the Duke of York ( though his conversion to Catholicism was the key factor that made the Bill possible ), but rather upon the power of Parliament to elect a monarch of its own choosing, contrary to the established laws of succession.

* Wimme Saari is one of the world's most renowned Sami artists, whose use of joik is a central factor in his music, and thus identifying him as one of the foremost Sami traditional musicians.

In 1995 the central planetary nebula nucleus ( PNN ) was observed as a DA white dwarf, having seemingly faded by a factor of three between 1987 and 1995.

It is the first enlisted grade to which results of a central promotion board are the primary factor in selection for promotion.

More fundamentally, however, Sir Harry blamed the " intolerable " conditions inside Strangeways in the months leading up to the riots and a " combination of errors " by the prison staff and Prison Service management as a central contributing factor.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.

States which provide automobiles for employees assign them variously to the agency, the individual, or to a central pool.

Our central goal should be to provide the greatest positive incentive for these societies to tackle boldly the tasks which they face.

Our technical assistance to these countries should place special emphasis on inducing the central governments to assume the role of advisor and guide which at an earlier stage foreign experts assumed in dealing with the central governments.

271 - 307 ) indicate, that the concept of function in sociology has been built up from physiological and biological models, in which the notions of teleology, i.e., metaphysical purpose, are central.

And if the affection for the suburban branch reflects a desire to shop with `` nice people '', rather than with the indiscriminate urban mass which supports the downtown department store, the central location may be in serious trouble.

In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.

The central city areas, in other words, exhibit the two characteristics which violate the life principle of congregations of the major denominations: they have too few middle-class people ; ;

Nassau is currently building a central collection of reference materials in its Hempstead headquarters, which will reach its goal of 100,000 volumes by 1965.

Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.

At the same time, the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment produced thinkers, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and later Wilhelm Dilthey, whose work formed the basis for the " culture concept ," which is central to the discipline.

In Britain, anthropology had a great intellectual impact, it " contributed to the erosion of Christianity, the growth of cultural relativism, an awareness of the survival of the primitive in modern life, and the replacement of diachronic modes of analysis with synchronic, all of which are central to modern culture.

In 1911, Ernest Rutherford gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's mass and a positive charge which, in units of the electron's charge, was to be approximately equal to half of the atom's atomic weight, expressed in numbers of hydrogen atoms.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

Axon dysfunction causes many inherited and acquired neurological disorders which can affect both the peripheral and central neurons.

In vertebrates, the axons of many neurons are sheathed in myelin, which is formed by either of two types of glial cells: Schwann cells ensheathing peripheral neurons and oligodendrocytes insulating those of the central nervous system.

Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

The Georgian railway, which runs through the town of Gori in central Georgia, is the main transport link between Armenia and the aforementioned Georgian seaports.

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.