Akerson was one of three secretaries to the President, and some speculated that Hoover's closeness to his other secretary, Lawrence Richey, a former detective and Secret Service agent, made it difficult for Akerson to obtain the kind of information he needed to effectively do his job.

In the classic definition of the closeness centrality, the spread of information is modeled by the use of shortest paths.

The information centrality of Stephenson and Zelen ( 1989 ) is another closeness measure, which bears some similarity to that of Noh and Rieger.

In statistics, the Vuong closeness test is likelihood-ratio-based test for model selection using the Kullback-Leibler information criterion.

Researcher Janice Light identified four social purposes of communicative interaction in AAC: the expression of needs and wants to a listener, the transfer of information as in more general conversation, the development of social closeness through such things as jokes and cheering, and finally social etiquette practices such as " please " and " thank you ".

Mishima collected all the information he could, even visiting Hayashi in prison, and as a result the novel follows the real situation with surprising closeness.

She writes on her website that, " Unsimilar to a war, knitting signals home, care, closeness and time for reflection ... When tank is covered in pink, it becomes completely unarmed and it loses its authority ".

His closeness to the President made it possible for him to be appointed as acting governor of Bataan when the incumbent governor, Adelmo Camacho, was suspended abuse of authority charges.

Miacis and Amphicyonidae were the first of the caniforms to split from the others and are sometimes considered to be sister groups to Ursidae, but the exact closeness of Amphicyonidae and Ursidae, as well as Arctoidae to Ursidae, is still uncertain.

Keys are hashes: there is no notion of semantic closeness when speaking of key closeness.

While it has been widely believed that Edward was a homosexual because of his closeness to Gaveston, there is no concrete evidence of this.

This closeness between the two men is often cited as evidence that they were lovers, though some FBI employees who knew them, such as W. Mark Felt, say that the relationship was “ brotherly ”.

Rainfall in the coastal belt of the Niger Delta is heavy due to the closeness of the Delta region to the equator.

Though Rigel B is not particularly faint at magnitude 6. 7, its closeness to Rigel A — which is over 500 times brighter — makes it a challenging target for telescopes smaller than.

A high proper motion is an indicator of closeness to the Sun.

The conceptual difference between uniform and topological structures is that in a uniform space, one can formalize certain notions of relative closeness and closeness of points.

By comparison, in a general topological space, given sets A, B it is meaningful to say that a point x is arbitrarily close to A ( i. e., in the closure of A ), or perhaps that A is a smaller neighborhood of x than B, but notions of closeness of points and relative closeness are not described well by topological structure alone.

The closeness of his connections with the others is not known.

In the fields of science, engineering, industry and statistics, the accuracy of a measurement system is the degree of closeness of measurements of a quantity to that quantity's actual ( true ) value.

For finite random sequences, Kolmogorov defined the " randomness " as the entropy, i. e. Kolmogorov complexity, of a string of length K of zeros and ones as the closeness of its entropy to K, i. e. if the complexity of the string is close to K it is very random and if the complexity is far below K, it is not so random.

* The starting point of planning is the individuality of man and closeness to nature, and the aesthetic value of nature and use of natural contours of the landscape are retained wherever possible.

Therefore there will be no correlation between key closeness and similar popularity of data as there might be if keys did exhibit some semantic meaning, thus avoiding bottlenecks caused by popular subjects.

Yet for all its " dangerous closeness " to what Heidegger understands by temporality, Husserl's account of internal time-consciousness does differ fundamentally.

Given the closeness shared by the countries bordering the Mediterranean basin, and very topical interest to the consolidation of the European Union's enlargement policy, he also intended to establish trade relations with the Republic of Malta aimed at encouraging mutual knowledge and awareness in a profitable way their local communities on European issues of common interest and current.

The closeness of the Dauphine's friendship with these ladies, influenced by various popular publications which promoted such friendships, later caused accusations of lesbianism to be lodged against these women.

Times and details depend only very slightly on the observer's location on the Earth's surface, with the differences being greatest for conjunctions involving the Moon because of its relative closeness, but even for the Moon the time of a conjunction never differs by more than a few hours.

The extension is achieved by an alternative interpretation of the concept of " closeness " or absolute value.

Lunar society is portrayed as akin to that of the Old West, tempered by the closeness of death by exposure to vacuum and by the shortage of women.

Therefore, the prohibition against incestuous relations in most societies is argued not based on or motivated by concerns over biological closeness.

Astor conceded this, but her closeness with other female MPs dissipated with time and by 1931 she became hostile to female Labour members such as Susan Lawrence.

The closeness of the relationship was such that he was falsely accused by Parisian rumour mongers of having seduced Marie Antoinette.

With this choice of a hyperplane, the points in the feature space that are mapped into the hyperplane are defined by the relation: Note that if becomes small as grows further away from, each element in the sum measures the degree of closeness of the test point to the corresponding data base point.

Beside the weight they carry, the horse is also influenced by its closeness to the inside barrier, the track surface, its gender, the jockey, and the trainer.

These, and his closeness to successive royal families-whom he could count amongst his kith and kin by several different connections-made him a figure of great power and influence.

The closeness of fit is measured by the Frobenius norm of.

They therefore also have made it into the popular consciousness – they have been used metaphorically, as in Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, or to denote a closeness to the sea, such as their use in The Lord of the Rings both in the insignia of Gondor and therefore Númenor ( used in the design of the films ), and to call Legolas to ( and across ) the sea.

Fajardo is popular among tourists, especially local tourists, because of its seafood, hotels, closeness to the small islands of Palomino, Icacos and Palominito, and the many daily trips that are available to Vieques and Culebra, both by boat and by the four airlines that served Fajardo Airport ( recently closed ): Air Culebra, Air St. Thomas, Isla Nena Air and Vieques Air Link.

The relationship between Janus and Juno is defined by the closeness of the notions of beginning and transition and the functions of conception and delivery, result of youth and vital force.

He was impressed by the closeness of H. D.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

Eileen at the time was more concerned about Orwell's closeness to Brenda Salkield.

Following this reaction and apparent closeness with Iran the 2009 Arab League summit in Doha was met with further controversy although Qatar was seen as emerging further with the follow-up Arab-Latin American ( Latam ) summit.

Ceaușescu was not the obvious successor to Gheorghiu-Dej when he died on 19 March 1965, despite his closeness to the longtime leader, but amid widespread infighting among older and more connected officials the Politburo turned to Ceaușescu as a compromise candidate.

Mordecai was referred to subsequently as one of those who " sat in the king's gate " to indicate his position of closeness to the king.

Because of his closeness to Richelieu, and the grey colour of his robes, Father Joseph was also nicknamed l ' Éminence grise (" the Grey Eminence ").

Its original site was in a valley in the sea cliffs and it developed through fishing and its closeness to the Continent as a landing place and trading port.

She was the widow of Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby, who had been poisoned because of his closeness to the throne of England.

Due to the closeness of the vote and voting irregularities, a run-off between Linden and Demopolis was set for May 14, 1870.

The name itself proves that this is a secondary form of Fons modelled on Janus, denouncing the late character of this myth: it was probably conceived because of the proximity of the festivals of Juturna ( January 11 ) and the Agonium of Janus ( January 9 ) as well as for the presence of an altar of Fons near the Janiculum and the closeness of the notions of spring and of beginning.

Studies show that both the act of telling others about good events and the response of the person with whom the event was shared have personal and interpersonal consequences, including increased positive emotions, subjective well-being, and self-esteem, and relationship benefits including intimacy, commitment, trust, liking, closeness, and stability.

When Thalberg returned to work in 1933, it was as one of the studio's unit producers, albeit one who had first choice on projects and MGM resources, including its stars, due to his closeness to Nicholas Schenck, who was then president of MGM corporate parent Loew's Inc. Schenck, who was the true power and ultimate arbiter at the studio, usually backed up Thalberg.

Besides the similarity of the names, the identification was supported by the closeness between the latitude given by Ptolemy ( 52 ° 50 ') and the actual latitude of Kalisz ( 51 ° 45 ' 27 ").

Under the presidency of João Goulart ( 1961 – 64 ), a protégé of Getúlio Vargas, and another gaúcho from Rio Grande do Sul, the closeness of the government to the historically disenfranchised working class and peasantry and even to the Communist Party under none other than Luís Carlos Prestes was equally remarkable.

The term originated as a pseudo-English Japanese word ( a wasei-eigo ), which was coined to describe the intimacy, or closeness, between a mother and a child.

A criticism of this system was that with the closeness in the level of ability between the two sides, years where each team won one game each were very common ( 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004 ) and in these years, many rugby fans felt dissatisfied with one team keeping the cup in a series tied at 1-1.