The focus of modern heraldry is the armorial achievement, or the coat of arms, the central element of which is the escutcheon or shield.

All warriors carried a shield made of oxhide, which retained the hair, with a central stiffening shaft of wood, the mgobo.

During the early part of the era, the area of exposed Precambrian, or shield, rocks in central Canada were eroding, supplying sediment to the basins from the interior.

The shield was held by a central grip or by straps which went over or around the user's arm

For coax of common impedance this mode is effectively suppressed but in high impedance coax and on a single central conductor without any outer shield, low attenuation and very broadband propagation is supported.

A propagating surface-wave mode that does not involve or require the outer shield but only a single central conductor also exists in coax but this mode is effectively suppressed in coax of conventional geometry and common impedance.

The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full heraldic achievement which consists of shield, supporters, crest and motto.

First and primary to the organization is the patient care practice, represented by the central shield.

Called E-Line, it uses a single central conductor but no outer conductor or shield.

A force field, sometimes known as an energy shield, force shield, or deflector shield is a concept of a field tightly bounded of significant magnitude so that objects affected by the particular force relating to the field are unable to pass through the central axis of the field and reach the other side.

Mount Bachelor, formerly named Bachelor Butte, is a stratovolcano atop a shield volcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range of central Oregon.

Most activity during this episode was located in the central part of the chain and built a shield volcano called Sheridan Mountain.

This design forms the basis of the Federation of Malaya's ( later Malaysia ) national emblem with the guardian tigers element and a quartered shield of four colours ( white, red, yellow and black ) in the central part of the shield representing the Federated Malay States.

Four shield volcanoes ( Raker and Prospect Peaks, Sifford Mountain and Mount Harkness ) grew to elevations of between at the corners of the central plateau.

Some of the traditions from the Imams make taqiyya a central element of Shi ' ism: " He who has no taqiyya has no faith "; " he who forsakes taqiyya is like him who forsakes prayer "; " taqiyya is the believers shield, but for taqiyya, God would not have been worshipped ".

Emi Koussi is a high pyroclastic shield volcano that lies at the south end of the Tibesti Mountains in the central Sahara of northern Chad.

The formation of this harbour has occurred due to active erosional processes on an extinct shield volcano, whereby the sea has flooded the caldera creating an inlet 16 km in length, with an average width of 2 km and a depth of-13 m relative to mean sea level at the 9 km point down the transect of the central axis.

The Laplandian Granulite Belt is in the central northeast section of the Baltic shield.

He added that a new deal would only happen if Washington abandoned plans to place elements of a missile shield in central Europe.

The central part of the emblem is a stylized red shield, showing a golden sun rising from the base.

The central focus of the flag is a shield and two spears, symbolizing protection from the country's enemies.

The shield differed in that the green and yellow areas to left and right each had one large blue five-pointed star, while the central red area did not have a star on top ( so that the blue map outline of Cameroon extended higher ).

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.

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.

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.